Quick View Plus


2: Quick Tour


2.1 The Quick View Plus Viewing Environment and File Navigation Panes

Quick View Plus allows you to navigate through a file system by providing a dual File Navigation pane:

There are two orientations for the File Navigation pane, of which you may choose through the Quick View Plus menu to provide the best view of the Folder Tree, Folder Contents, and the viewed file. The two File Navigation orientations available are:

  1. A left-hand side orientation, which is the navigation pane default orientation.


  2. A top-attachment orientation.


To Change the File Navigation Orientation

  1. From the menu bar, click View, then click Options….
  2. In the Quick View Plus Options dialog, select the Navigation tab.
  3. In the File Navigation Options control, click the appropriate button for either left-hand side or top attachment File Navigation orientation.

The following topics, “Menu Options” and “Toolbar Buttons,” provide information on the other parts of the viewing environment.

2.2 Menu Options

Within the image below, you may click any menu name to view a list of its available options.

File Menu

 
Open another file for viewing…
Initiates the Quick View Plus – Select a file to view dialog which allows you to open a file for viewing.
Save Copy…
Initiates the Save Copy dialog to allow you to save the currently viewed file.
Open (filename) for editing
Starts the program used to create the file (if the program is on your computer), with the file displayed and ready for editing.
Quick Compress
Provides menu options that allow you to create a Zip file from the currently viewed file, add the currently viewed file to a Zip file, or create a Zip file with the same name as the currently viewed file.
Print…
Displays a Print dialog which allows you to change the print settings for the viewed file.
Print Setup...
Printer settings
Make Wallpaper
Available for any bitmap file (BMP, GIF, TIF, etc.), this option places the current view in the view window as your wallpaper, the background for Windows desktop.
Send (filename)…
Sends the file displayed in the view window as an e-mail attachment with Exchange and most other e-mail programs.
Close this View
Closes the current view
Exit Quick View Plus
Closes all Quick View Plus views

Edit Menu

 
Copy
Copies a selection within a file to the clipboard
Select All
Selects the entire content of a file
Find…
Allows you to specify the text you wish to find within a file
Find Previous
Finds the previous occurrence of the specified text
Find Next
Finds the next occurrence of the specified text

View Menu

 
Toolbar
Shows or hides the Quick View Plus toolbar
Status Bar
Shows or hides the Quick View Plus status bar
File Navigator
Toggles between a full view window and the File Navigator window
Refresh File Navigator
Refreshes the tree and list panes in the file navigator
View as
Allows you to view a file in it’s native file format, as text, or as hexadecimal
Text/HTML Encoding
Allows you to choose an encoding format for viewed HTML files
Options…
Allows you to change various Quick View Plus options
Configure Quick View Plus…
Allows you to configure the operation of Quick View Plus with the applications available for integration

File Type-Specific Menu

Quick View Plus displays a menu with a different name – Archive, Bitmap, Database, Document, Drawing, Spreadsheet – and different options for each type of file you display. You can choose any file type-specific command from the menu bar, or from the view window’s context menu, which you open by clicking the right mouse button anywhere in the view window.

To view the specific commands available from each of these menu items for their respective file types, see Chapter 4, “Working with Specific File Types”.

Go Menu

 
Back
Browse back in the list of files viewed
Forward
Browse forward in the list of files viewed

The eight most recently viewed files are listed as well. To view a previously-viewed file, select it from this list.

Window Menu

 
Tile Horizontally
Tiles all open Quick View Plus windows horizontally
Tile Vertically
Tiles all open Quick View Plus windows vertically
Cascade
Cascades all open view windows
Pin to Desktop
Pins the current view window to the source from where Quick View Plus was last started
Attach
Contains commands for the attached location of the current view window when pinning is active

Help Menu

 
Help
Displays the online help contents and index
Quick View Plus on the Web
Provides Web links to the Quick View Plus home page and product support
About Quick View Plus
Displays program information, version number, and copyright

2.3 Toolbar Buttons

The view window has all the features of a standard Windows  program (title bar and sizing buttons, main menu, and scroll bars). It displays the current file and, depending on the view you’re looking at, some combination of the following toolbar buttons. These toolbar buttons give you quick access to several menu commands.

 
When not activated or 'unpinned', causes each newly viewed file to be displayed in a new view window.
Note: File selected in the File Navigation pane will always be viewed in the same window.
When activated or 'pinned', causes each newly viewed file to replace the one already in the view window. (When Quick View Plus is pinned to Windows Explorer or the File Open dialog, the file navigation pane is hidden and the File Navigator button disabled.)
Toggles between a full window view of a file displayed in the view window, and the a file displayed alongside the file navigation pane. (The button reflects the current orientation of the file navigation pane.)
Launches a new view window with the tree view open to the same folder as the current Quick View Plus window (if File Navigator pane is active); no file will be displayed in the view window.
Browse back to the files that have been viewed. By right-clicking the small arrowhead in the upper-right corner of this button, you can select and browse back to a file previously displayed.
Browse forward to the files that have been viewed. By right-clicking the small arrowhead in the upper-right corner of this button, you can select and browse forward to a file previously displayed.
Starts the program used to create the file (if the program is on your computer), with the file displayed and ready for editing. (This button changes to reflect the program used to create the file.)
Displays the Print dialog box so that you can change the settings (if necessary) and send the file to the printer.
Copies the selection to the Clipboard.
Finds the next occurrence of a search term you type into or select from the Find Text box:
Finds the previous occurrence of a search term you type into or select from the Find Text box.
For word processing, spreadsheet, database documents, or an archive file you display, incrementally enlarges the font size scaling to a maximum of 300% of its original size. For bitmaps, drawings and presentations, zooms in on the entire document.
For word processing, spreadsheet, and database documents, or an archive file you display, incrementally reduces the font size scaling to a minimum of 40% of its original size. For bitmaps, drawings. and presentations, zooms out on the entire document.
For word processing, spreadsheet, and database documents, or an archive file you display, restores font size scaling or viewing size to its original size. For bitmaps, drawings, and presentations, restores the document to its original size.
Displays word processing, spreadsheet, and database documents in draft mode.
Displays word-processing, spreadsheet, and database documents in normal mode.
Displays word processing document pages in preview mode.
When pressed, displays a word processing document fit to window. To toggle between preview and fit to window views, click the icon. Note: To use this button, the document must be in Preview mode.
Hides or shows spreadsheet or database document gridlines. This button is available only when viewing spreadsheet or database files.
 
 

2.4 Starting Quick View Plus Using Sample Files

After installing Quick View Plus, you can open a view window from several places in Windows. If you integrated Quick View Plus into any programs or browsers during installation, you can also view documents from within these applications.

When you open a view window, Quick View Plus displays a file-type-specific menu with an appropriate name and appropriate options for the type of file; this menu is to the right of the View menu on the main menu bar. If you open a file of a different type in the same window, the menu and its options change accordingly.

This section describes how to start Quick View Plus from:

This chapter also describes how to select additional files to view after viewing a file.

2.4.1 Starting from the Program Menu

  1. Click the Start button, point to Programs, point to Quick View Plus, click on View a File.
  2. Using the Quick View Plus file navigation pane, navigate to the Quick View Plus Samples directory (the default location is C:\Program Files\Quick View Plus\Samples, however if you have installed Quick View Plus in a different location, please navigate to the Samples directory in that location).
  3. The contents of the Samples directory are listed below or to the right of the Folder Tree pane (depending on which of the file navigation options have been chosen – a left-hand or top-attachment orientation). Click once on Mgfxdrw.drw to view this sample file.
Note icon You need only to click once on files in the Quick View Plus file navigation pane to view them in the view window. Clicking twice on files will initiate their default editing or viewing application, if it is available on your computer.

2.4.2 Starting from Windows Explorer

  1. Click the Start button, point to Programs, and click Windows Explorer.
  2. In the left side of the Exploring window, navigate to the location where you installed Quick View Plus (the default location is C:\Program files\Quick View Plus), and expand the Quick View Plus folder.
  3. Click the Samples folder to display its contents in the right pane of the Exploring window.
  4. Right-click on the Mgfxdraw.drw file to view the Quick View Plus context menu.


  5. On the context menu, click Quick View Plus.

2.4.3 Starting from the Desktop Icon

  1. Double-click the Quick View Plus icon
  2. In the Quick View Plus file navigation pane, navigate the Folder Tree to find the folder that contains your file.
  3. Click once on the file name in the Folder Contents pane to display the file in the view window.

2.4.4 Starting from the Desktop Context Menu

  1. On the Windows desktop, right-click the file you want to view.
  2. On the context menu, click Quick View Plus.
  3. Quick View Plus starts, and the selected file is displayed in the view window.

2.4.5 Starting from the Taskbar

After you start Quick View Plus during a Windows session, a 'notification icon' that looks like a magnifying glass appears on the taskbar in the lower right corner of your screen. From this icon, you can open a Windows File Open dialog box and use it to select a file for viewing.

Do one of the following:

2.4.6 Starting from the Find Command

  1. Do one of the following:
    • Click the Start button, point to Find, then click Files or Folders.
    • Right-click the My Computer icon and click Find on the context menu.
  2. In the text box provided, specify what to search for and where.
  3. Right-click the file you want to view.
  4. On the context menu, click Quick View Plus.

Quick View Plus starts, and the selected file is displayed in the view window.

2.4.7 Starting from Windows Programs

You can start Quick View Plus and use it to preview files before opening them in any program that uses the Windows File Open dialog box.

  1. On the File menu in the program, click Open.
  2. Right-click the file you want to view.
  3. On the context menu, click Quick View Plus.

A Quick View Plus session opens with the selected file in the view window.

Selecting Additional Files to View in the View Window

Once you’ve opened a view window, you can display files (and objects embedded in them) in rapid succession by simply clicking through the file list in the Folder Contents pane with the Up and Down arrows on your keyboard. This section uses as examples a spreadsheet file, an archive file, and a word-processing file with an embedded object to show you how to do this.

To View a Spreadsheet File

In the Folder Contents pane where the file name of a currently-viewed file is highlighted, use your Up or Down arrow key on your keyboard to highlight the spreadsheet file.

The view window displays the spreadsheet file in place of the file previously displayed. Because this is a spreadsheet file, the menu to the right of the View menu changes to Spreadsheet.

To View an Archive File
  1. In the Folder Contents pane where the file name of a currently-viewed file is highlighted, use your Up or Down arrow key on your keyboard to highlight your archive file (zip file).
  2. The view window displays a tree-like representation of the archive’s directory structure with a list of the files in it. The menu to the right of the View menu changes to Archive.

  3. If you want to view the contents of a file in the archive, click the filename and that file will appear in a view window frame below the archive directory structure.
  4. If you want to extract (decompress) one or more files from the archive, either:
    • Select one or more files in the view window and then, on the Archive menu, click Extract This File, Extract Selected Files, or Extract All Files. In the Choose Destination for Extracted File(s) dialog box, enter the path to where you want to save the uncompressed file(s).
    • Select one or more files in the view window, then right click on a highlighted file name. In the available menu, click Extract This File, Extract Selected Files, or Extract All Files. In the Choose Destination for Extracted File(s) dialog box, enter the path to where you want to save the uncompressed file(s).
To View a Word Processing File and Separately Save an Object Embedded in It
  1. In the file navigation pane where the file name of a currently-viewed file is highlighted, use your Up or Down arrow key on your keyboard to highlight your word processing file.
  2. The view window displays the word processing file in place of the file previously displayed. Because this is a word-processing file, the menu to the right of the View menu changes to Document.

  3. To view an object embedded in this file, double-click the graphic.
  4. Quick View Plus displays the object in the Embedded Object window.

  5. To save a copy of the embedded object, click Save Copy on the File menu, specify a folder and a name for the copy in the Save Copy dialog box, and click Save.
  6. To close the Embedded Object window, click Close This View on the File menu.

2.4.8 Starting from Browsers or E-mail Programs

To View a File in a Browser

Within Netscape or Microsoft browsers, you can click on a link that represents a non-HTML file on a server. If integrated with these browsers, Quick View Plus will then view the file within the browser window, along with a Quick View Plus toolbar and menu options. (For information on commands available on the toolbar, see “Toolbar Buttons”.) After a file is displayed by Quick View Plus in a browser viewing window, you can right-click within the window to initiate a Quick View Plus context menu, and click the command you want to use.

To View a File in an E-mail Programs or GroupWare

Quick View Plus can be integrated into e-mail programs and GroupWare, allowing you to easily view files from within these applications. You can integrate Quick View Plus during installation, or at a later time from within Quick View Plus. For instructions, see “Configuring for Applications” in Chapter 6. Once Quick View Plus is integrated, you can use it to view and send e-mail attachments without having or starting the programs used to create them.

You can view attachments within the following e-mail programs and GroupWare with Quick View Plus:

Eudora
Note icon The default setting for viewing attachments in Eudora is that Quick View Plus will only display files for which there is no registered application. However, Quick View Plus can be configured to display all files. To change to this setting, use the Options page of the Properties dialog in Eudora.
Lotus cc:Mail
  1. Right-click on the attachment you want to view.
  2. Within the context menu, click Quick View Plus.
  3. Quick View Plus will start, and the selected attachment is displayed in the view window.
Note icon Quick View Plus for Windows can only be integrated within cc:Mail for Windows 98, Windows 95, and Windows NT 4.x.
Lotus Notes

You can use Quick View Plus to enhance the attachment-viewing capability of Lotus Notes. Quick View Plus integration with Lotus Notes (version 5 only) allows you to view files in a viewing environment that is similar to viewing files in Quick View Plus alone, with a Quick View Plus toolbar and menu options provided. (For information on commands available on the toolbar, see “Toolbar Buttons”.)

For additional information on the attachment-viewing capability of Lotus Notes, see your Lotus Notes User's Guide.

About Quick View Plus Menus Within Lotus Notes

When Quick View Plus is integrated into Lotus Notes and you are viewing an attachment, the Viewer menu item is replaced by a file-type-specific menu item; these menu items are Document, Spreadsheet, Database, Archive, Drawing, and Bitmap. When one of these menu items is selected, the drop-down submenu will have the same items available as the Quick View Plus context menu:

Microsoft Exchange

To view attachments in Microsoft Exchange

  1. Right-click on the attachment you want to view.
  2. On the context menu, click Quick View Plus.
Microsoft Outlook and Microsoft Outlook Express

To view attachments in Microsoft Outlook and Outlook Express

  1. Right-click on the attachment you want to view.
  2. On the context menu, click Quick View Plus.

Quick View Plus starts, and the selected attachment is displayed in the view window.

Note icon By default, Quick View Plus opens or prints Outlook and Outlook Express file attachments only when the program that created them is not on your computer. However, to save time, you can choose to have Quick View Plus open or print all file attachments, even if the program that created them is on your computer. To change this setting, see Chapter 6, “Configuring Quick View Plus”.