Adding Jobs

Browser Click Monitoring

To enable browser click monitoring, check the Input / Monitor Browser Clicks option in the main menu (on Windows NT systems you need to have Administrator privileges to toggle this option).

Hold the Alt key down when clicking on the link in your browser to send the URL to Net Vampire. If Net Vampire is not running, it will be started automatically. A mouseclick without the Alt key will open the link in the browser, as usual. Browser click monitoring works with Internet Explorer 4.01 or higher and with all versions of Netscape.

Clipboard Monitoring

To enable clipboard monitoring, check the Input / Monitor Clipboard option in the Main Menu. Whenever you copy a shortcut in the browser, a valid URL in the text editor or an Internet shortcut in the file explorer, the Net Vampire Add Job dialog will open with the Location field pre-filled.

HTML Clipboard Format

Works with Internet Explorer 4.01 or higher.

Select a fragment of the web page with your mouse in the browser window, then drag it to the Drop Basket. All links embedded in the fragment will be added to the Job List. This also works with Clipboard Monitoring.

Drop Basket

The Net Vampire Drop Basket accepts drag and drop in many different formats.You can drop links from the browser, including graphic links, Netscape bookmark entries, Internet Shortcuts from the Desktop or folders (now multiple shortcuts can be dropped in one operation), a list of URLs from the text editor (each URL should be on a separate line). To make the Drop Basket visible, check the Input / Show Drop Basket option in the Main Menu.

Command line parameters

A URL and optionally a local file name, if specified as command line parameters when Net Vampire is started, will add a new Job to the Job List. Only one instance of Net Vampire can run at any given time. If you start VAMPIRE.EXE with command line parameters when the program is running, it will just add the URL to the list.

Clipboard Paste

If clipboard monitoring is disabled, you can manually paste URLs from the Clipboard to the Job List. Click the Paste URLs speedbutton, or select Jobs / Paste Links in the Main Menu, or press Ctrl-V in the Job List.

Add Job dialog

allows you to type the URL manually. You can start the new Job immediately, schedule it to start at a certain time or add it to the Job List without starting. Click the Job Settings, Site Settings or Locations button to change the settings or add alternate downloading locations.

Importing partially received files

If you have a file partially received with another program, you can easily import it to Net Vampire to complete the download. Select Jobs / Import Partial File in the Main Menu, select the file in the Open dialog and click OK. When the Add Job dialog opens, type the URL in the Location field.

Third-Party Programs

can add Jobs to Net Vampire using:

• OLE Automation interface
• DDE interface
• WM_COPYDATA Windows message
• command-line parameters

The Job configuration file can be created and copied to the Net Vampire Jobs directory, this will immediately add the Job to the Job List.

Visit the Net Vampire web site for technical details.