View - menu

Applies to:
Main window overview

 

Clicking the View menu with your left mouse button, drops down the view menu with the following items. This is by far the most important menu in BrowserBob, giving you access to the properties window, the project explorer (former objects dialog) and all additional views and tools in BrowserBob - read on carefully to get familiar with these tools.
 

Properties
Opens the properties window, which is the main tool to select and change properties of all different objects in BrowserBob. Depending on which object is selected in the design area, the properties dialog displays the respective object properties.
 

Project explorer
Opens the Project explorer, which contains the objects explorer and the states overview. Here you can see in which state you are working at the moment. In the objects explorer, you have access to all objects of your project. It displays the identifiers of all objects used in the current project (object identifiers are their names). Clicking on an identifier on the objects explorer will select the object in your design area, and display its properties. This is very effective for selecting overlapping or hidden objects.

TIP: you can also access details of attached Action Lists via clicking on them.
 

Library
Opens the BrowserBob objects Library window, which contains Drag & Drop objects for project use. Simply drag objects into your project. They will be added including their settings. Your own objects can be added via click.

States
Opens the States window on the tools window. Here you can select, add, delete and rename states for your application.

HINT: States are named aggregations of your applications properties, enabling you to entirely change the user interface and behaviour by switching to another state (interface change).

Scanning
By clicking Scanning you open the Scanning window on the tools window. Here you are able to add, delete and manage the scans of the selected web object. By the use of scanning you can make your application react to URL's, page titles and loading status messages.

Additional files

Opens the Additional files window on the tools window. Here you add and manage files, you want to include with your application.

Content
Opens the Content window, where you can manage browse sequences of your additional files and/or online URL's for ebooks, presentations,...

Set Tool-windows to Defaults
Brings back all windows of the BrowserBob interface on your screen again. It brings all separated tool windows together again, including the ones you disabled.

Notes
Clicking an Notes will hide or show the project notes on your workspace (design area).

Project options:
Opens the
Project options on the properties window. There you can set a background color for your workspace, a selection color, a helper lines color. You may add a description of your project, which will be added with your export file and will be shown with the template on the New project dialog.

BrowserBob website
This menu item opens a browser and leads you to the BrowserBob homepage: www.browserbob.com

Tips
Clicking this item opens the
Tips window, which displays BrowserBob related tips.