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# Main Window

PCOpus Mainwindow

General Information

- PCOpus has two directory windows and a command bar.
- The command bar can be configured freely.
- The size of the window can be changed in height and width.
- Files in the directory window can be selected by clicking on the entries with the mouse or by moving the cursor and pressing space. Furtheron the command Select can be used to select certain files. Also an option to select files using the Shift-key is available.
- When the desired files are selected a command can be used on them. Only the files in the active window are affected. I may forget to state this later on, since it is completely understandable.
- The active window is the one with the colored pathname. The active windows is also referred to as Source and the inactive window as Destination.
- If an operation has results (copy failed, pattern found) these results can be viewed. If you get no results after copying or moving files you can be sure that everything went fine (or no match was found).

Buttons and gadgets

- The button 'Menu' brings up the menu.
- Below the 'Menu' Button is a little checkbox. This checkbox activates the 'Always on Top' feature. When this box is checked, PCOpus will always stay on top all other windows open on your desktop. It may be freely switched on or off during runtime.
- Below this is the 'Always in Back' checkbutton. This keeps PCOpus always behind all other windows. Apologizes for the short flicker. Since this is a 'dirty hack' (if you can speak of a dirty hack when running windows) this sometimes has some problems, mainly if only one window is open together with PCOpus. Just click on the windows a bit, it will work correctly then. A single right-click on the 'Always in back' gadget puts PCOpus to the back one time.
- Below this on is an 'I' button. Clicking on this with the right button resets the window separator to middle position.
- Below this is a button labeled 'V'. Clicking on this button brings up the last list displayed. Works like the Review Command but is quicker and more convenient to access. If the last list displayed was the bufferlist you are not able to select a directory from this list.
- Under and below the 'I' and 'V' button is the window separator. When the mousepointer is over the separator, the mouseicon changes and you can drag the separator to the position you like.
- Left of the left window and right of the right window is a hidden button that changes the mousepointer to an arrow if the pointer is over it. If you click on this button (with the mousepointer being an arrow) the parent of the related window is displayed.
- Just below each Directory window are the path gadgets. In these gadgets you can see the path of the currently displayed directory. You can enter another path here to go directly there. You will have to click on the gadget, though. You may enter the name assigned to a directory in Standard adjustments/Paths or you may use the drivename directly (i.e. your drive d: is named DATA, you can enter data or [data])
- Next to the path gadget is a button labeled ":\". Clicking this brings you directly to the root of the currently displayed drive.
- Next to the Root button are two buttons labeled "<" and ">". These buttons cycle through the directory buffers.
- Just below the vertical sliders are 6 buttons:

      Parent of left directory ->  P > P  <- Parent of right diretory
      Reread left directory    ->  R C R  <- Reread right directory

- 'C' clears all directory buffers not currently displayed
- '<' or '>' (this changes according to the active side) copies the left window to the right window ('>') or vice versa ('<')
- The Menu Line:
  - Menu
    brings up the menu
  - Max
    maximizes PCOpus in heigth
  - Min
    minimizes PCOpus in heigth
  - Redraw
    Redraws the window, should not be needed too often
  - Sort
    brings up a small window ot change the sorting of the directory-entries:
    - Display Directories first
      In the directory windows the directories are displayed first, then the files
    - Display Files first
      Otherway round
    - Mix Files and Dirs
      Does exactly this: it mixes files and directories
    - Sort by name
      Entries are sorted alphabetically
    - Sort by size
      Entries are sorted from largest to smallest file
    - Sort by date
      Entries are sorted from new to old
    - Sort by extension
      Entries are sorted by extension
    - Do not sort
      Entries are not sorted at all, they appear in exactly the same order as they are appear in the filesystem/DOS. This is considerably faster on larger dirs.
  - Refresh
    refreshes the internal drivelist (useful if drives have changed lately because of a subst for example) and rereads both directories in the directory windows.
  - Reselect
    Reselects all files that were selected before a command was executed. It is also possible for example to copy some files, activate the Destination and reselect all files that were copied TO this directory before.
  - Drives
    brings up the drive and directory list
  - Quit
    This button quits PCOpus
- Left and right of the command buttons are two sliders that scroll through all available commands.

The main part of the lower part of the PCOpus window is the button-bank. This button bank consists of 6x5 commandbuttons (at least if you did not change this to another value). Clicking on a button with the left mousebutton will activate the command. If it is possible to click on the commandbutton with the right mousebutton, you can see a little black line in the upper right corner of this commandbutton.

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