Date: Thu, 1 Aug 2024 16:17:06 +0100 From: D Subject: XanaNews - Explaining the User Interface (part 1 of 2) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <20240801.161706.7cefa038@mixmin.net> Newsgroups: news.software.readers Path: ...!3.eu.feeder.erje.net!feeder.erje.net!news2.arglkargh.de!alphared!sewer!news.dizum.net!not-for-mail Organization: dizum.com - The Internet Problem Provider X-Abuse: abuse@dizum.com Injection-Info: sewer.dizum.com - 2001::1/128 Bytes: 9513 Lines: 180 XanaNews > Help > Contents > Explaining the User Interface > The Workspace >The Workspace >Here's what XanaNews looks like. >At the top is the Menu, and the Toolbar containing a set of buttons. At >the bottom is the Status Bar. In between these are the four main XanaNews >areas - the Subscribed Groups tree, the Message Tree, the Queued Requests >tree and the Message Pane. XanaNews > Help > Contents > Explaining the User Interface > The Menu >The Menu >The XanaNews main menu contains: >*The File Menu Import, Export, Save etc. >*The Edit Menu Copy, Cut, Paste etc. >*The View Menu Change the view. >*The Search Menu Perform XanaNews' various searching functions. >*The Account Menu Add, Remove & Modify accounts and server connections. >*The Newsgroup Menu Perform actions on Newsgroups. >*The Messages Menu Message related items. >*The Bookmarks Menu Manage your bookmarks. >*The Tools Menu Set up and manage XanaNews. >*The Help Menu Online help. XanaNews > Help > Contents > Explaining the User Interface > File Menu >File Menu >From the File Menu you can Import & Export messages, create folders where >you can archive old but interesting messages, save attachments, and even >change the location on your computer where messages are stored. >Export Selected Articles > Allows you to save selected messages as a text file, for instance so > that they can be loaded into other programs. > The text file is formatted according to RFC-822. It therefore contains > the first message's header lines; a blank line; the first message's body > lines; a dot on a line on its own; the second message's header lines, etc. >Import Articles > Import articles from a text file. XanaNews expects the text file to be in > RFC-822 format. >Export Compressed Messages > When you select this, XanaNews displays a separate form, which allows you > to select which groups you want to export, and the file you want to export > them to. > The form contains an additional option that allows you to save XanaNews' > settings along with the messages. This makes it easy to move your message > base and settings from one computer to another in a single file. > XanaNews exports compressed messages in the proprietary '.xns' format. >Import Compressed Messages > Load messages that were exported into an 'XNS' file. If the 'XNS' file > contains XanaNews settings, the settings are exported too. >Save Article as HTML > Convert an article to HTML format and save it - so that it can be > incorporated into a web page or Blog. > Additionally, the message pane right-click Popup Menu contains an option > to save an article to the clipboard in HTML format. >New Archived Message Folder >Rename Archived Message Folder >Delete Archived Message Folder >Empty Archived Message Folder >Re-Index Archived Message Folder > The functions allow you to add, rename, delete, empty and re-index > Archived Message Folders > Note that re-indexing archived message folders is not normally required. > It may be used if the archived folder becomes corrupted. >Find Folder Message in Message Base > Select this option when an archives message is selected. XanaNews will > attempt to find the same message in its message base, so you can see it > in its threaded view. >Reload Selected Messages from Folder > Copies the selected messages in an archived messages folder to the > original position in the message base. >Reload All Messages from Folder > Copies all messages from an archived messages folder to their original > positions in the message base. >Save Attachment (F2) > Save the selected attachment to a separate file on your computer. >Save Attachments in Selected messages (F3) > Save all attachments in the selected messages to separate files on your > computer. >Setup Printer > Invoke the Windows printer setup dialog, which allows you to configure > your printer. >Print Message > Print the selected message(s) >Move Messagebase > Move all messages to a new location on your computer. > By default messages are stored in a local application data folder. > Typically this is "c:\Documents and Settings\\Local Settings > \Application Data\Woozle\XanaNews", and is the best place for it. It > allows several people to use your computer - each with separate XanaNews > settings and messages. >Exit > Close XanaNews. If you have the Show in System Tray setting enabled, > XanaNews will be minimized to the system tray and will continue to run. > Otherwise it will be terminated. XanaNews > Help > Contents > Explaining the User Interface > Edit Menu >Edit Menu >The Edit Menu allows you to perform the usual Windows 'Edit functions - >Copy, Paste, etc. >Copy (Ctrl+C) > Copy copies the selected text in the message pane to the clipboard. >Delete (Del) > When the Subscribed Groups Tree is selected, and has some selected > groups, XanaNews unsubscribes from these groups. > Otherwise, if messages are selected in the message tree, XanaNews marks > them for deletion. >Select All (Ctrl+A) > If the Subscribed Groups Tree is selected, all groups are selected. > Otherwise, XanaNews selects all messages in the message tree. >Select Thread (Ctrl+T) > Select all messages in the current thread in the message tree. >Select Sub-Thread (Shift+Ctrl+T) > Selects all child messages for the current message >Copy Link to Clipboard > Copy currently selected link in the message pane to the clipboard, > performing unwrapping if necessary. XanaNews > Help > Contents > Explaining the User Interface > View Menu >View Menu >The View menu lets you control how messages are displayed in XanaNews >Headers > A submenu containing options to control how message headers appear in > the message pane: > *None Don't display headers in the message pane. > *Short Just display key headers (From, Subject, Date, Message-Id > & Lines) in the message pane. > *Full Display all headers in the message pane. > *Custom Display only headers selected in the Custom headers in > Message Pane options. >Messages > A submenu containing the following options to control how messages > appear in the message pane: > *Normal Messages are displayed with all text formatting and > inline images. > *Raw Text Parts Text formatting is omitted, but images are displayed > inline. > *Raw Messages are displayed with no text formatting or > image decoding. > *Images Only Only images in a message are displayed. The text is > omitted. > 'Raw Text Parts'; can be especially useful when viewing programming > language source code - where some symbols in the source code may > otherwise be interpreted as bold, italic or underline indicators >Group Multipart Messages > When Group Multipart Messages is selected, XanaNews displays messages > chronologically, sorted by subject. It detects multipart attachments > (attachments that should be built up by combining several messages), > and displays these in a tree, with the first message at the root, and > subsequent messages for the same attachment as children. > To combine, decode and save a complete attachment when 'Group Multipart > Messages' is selected: > *Make sure you have downloaded all the multipart message bodies. If not, > select the thread and choose 'Get Thread Message Bodies' from the > message tree right-click popup menu. > *Select the first message (the root one). > *Do File/Save Attachment (F2). The messages will be combined and the > attachment will be saved. > If you need to adjust the order of messages before they are combined, > use the Combine & Decode Selected Messages option instead. >Hide Read Messages (Ctrl+H > Hides messages that you have already read when you select a group. Once > the group is selected, read messages still remain until you exit and > re-enter the group. > Note that the read messages are not deleted. You can un-hide them by > reselecting the option. >Show Bookmark Pane (Ctrl+B) > The Bookmark Pane appears between the message tree and the message pane > when you select this option, and the Bookmark menu is enabled. > This option is automatically selected when you select 'Search to > Bookmark' when searching for messages. >Show Subscribed Groups Pane (Ctrl+S) > This options allows you to hide/show the Subscribed Group pane, to give > yourself more width when viewing messages. >Show Secret Accounts & Newsgroups (T) > Accounts and Newsgroups can both be marked as Secret in Account > Properties and Newsgroup Properties. > Secret accounts and newsgroups don't show up when you first start > XanaNews. You can show them by pressing 'T' and instantly hide them > again by giving it another press. [end part 1; see part 2 for continuation]