Power Application

Mastering these skills will enable Ferret32 users to leverage Ferret32's full inter-operable features. The power of using Ferret32's well integrated features with the rest of your windows based tools exceeds the sum of the individual programs themselves. Like explorer, Ferret32 may find and launch programs, but it also recognises hyperlinks and email addresses.

Your WEB Browser creates very useful bookmark files. Adding and favorite or saving a URL addreess by bookmarking creates a list of important web sites for later reference. Once this bookmark file reaches more than 100 entries, finding a particular Web Address can become time consuming. The more places you add the worst it gets.

To make the bookmark files orderly, users had to spend a lot of time filing bookmarks according categories so later, users could look in a single folder for an item. But what if the folder has 500 entries or you have five hundred folders? The task then becomes exceptionally tedious.

Many limit the number of bookmarks just because they have the hard to find syndrome!

Fortunately, most bookmarks have text associated with the entry. Bookmark files of even 1,000,000 links are searched in seconds for any matching criteria. The drudgery of sorting things by category or alphabetically is not necessary and a total waste of time.

How do we make it happen. First point to your bookmark file. This file for NETSCAPE is BOOKMARK.HTM and is in a subdirectory under NETSCAPE. Once the SOURCE_FILE points to a file having a HTM file extension, then FERRET is enable for BROWSING HTML BOOKMARKS. Double clicking on or near a http link will find the nearest link and bring up a launch Browse window. Clicking on the Browse button will launch the browser to the http address shown. It will be necessary to define your path to your browser as Ferret32 need to know about your browser. Use OPTION menu to define the Web Browser. Since we all spend considerable time on the WEB, there are examples and more techniques on Ferret32 and web applications on these WEB PAGES.

Note: Internet Explorer Users: Favorite files are handled a bit differently and our not, initially, in a searchable format. You may wish to consider downloading the free NETSCAPE NAVIGATOR software from http://www.netscape.com By using Netscape, you do not have to export favorites but rather may search bookmarks directly as the are created.

See for Exporting Favorites Using Internet Explorer 5 Export Wizard.

Ferret32 is enabled in any type of data search results.

Highlite text to be copied, then right click. A menu similar to the one below appears. Select copy. Alt Tab to the next application window, click at the desired insertion point. Right click again. Now Paste. That's it.

Exporting Favorites using the Internet Explorer 5 Export Wizard.
Once exported to a htm file, Ferret32 can search and navigate to any of the URL web sites.

Select Import and Export from the File Pulldown menu.

RECORD MODE RECORDS

A record, for record mode search, consists of one or more lines followed by and end of record delimiter which is inserted to delimit the record for the next record in the same file.

To make a record , type or cut and paste into the search results window. Insert the end of record delimiter.    Hit append  to the specified Target file. The record is added to the Target file.

To add a record to a file for which a file button already exist. Press the File button to load the file path in the the Source file window. The simply Drag/Drop the source file into the Target file window.

When copy is used from a Web page (html, often many extra spaces are present on every line and the lines wrap at may only 40 to 50 characters. Use the Wrap Text feature  to remove the spaces and re-wrap the text. The length of the line in characters is set in Options-Under Format as the Search Text Window Contraint Width. The default for this value is 68 characters.

COMMA DELIMITED MODE RECORDS (Top)

A csv record, for csv or text mode search, consists of one line of data where values are seperated by a comma. The line ends with a carriage return. When Ferret32 appends a record to file, its inserts the required carriage return even if one is not present.

Multi-line data may be compresed to a CSV record using the csv record Icon  

John Doe
President
My Company
1234 Easy Street Suite 10
Harmony, Kansas 12345

Your computer is able to handle many tasks at the same time. This is a very powerful feature. Ferret32 takes advantage of this in many ways. One of these ways is in the "broadcasting" of web searching. Several search engines are called at the same time. This creates multiple browser windows. To get from one window to the next, we recommend using the <Alt>-Tab key.

Hold down the <Alt> key and while keeping the <Alt> key down, strike and release the Tab key. A box, much like this one, appears. In the box shown, the current task is partially described in the rectangular box under the Icons of the task currently running. <Alt>-Tabbing will move one task to the right each time the key-combination is struck. Releasing the <Alt> key on the task with the box outlined brings this task to the front.

RENAMING SELECTED FILES

REDATE SELECTED FILES (TOUCH the date to today)

  Klipboard Manager

There are ten (10) clipboards that serve as a scratch pad for work in process. The active clipboard number is shown at the bottom on the window in the grey status area. The /HTML will convert a web page source to simple text. The current selected clipboard may be saved as RTF text for later input into Excel, Outlook or Word.