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Main Window

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This is the main screen of WinJar. I will explain all the parts of the screen top to bottom.

Main Menu

File:

• New archive: (CTRL-N) This will open an open/new dialog where you can specify a new archive. If you select an existing archive, then WinJar will ask you if you want to open that existing archive. When you make a new archive, that archive will not be created until you actually add something to it. If you do not add an extension, WinJar will add ".j" to the filename. If you do not want an extension at all, then add a "." (dot) to the filename. E.g. file "aFile" will become "aFile.j" and file "aFile." will become "aFile.". By default JAR adds a ".j" when you do not specify an extension, with the extra "." (dot) you can bypass that. JAR doesn't accept empty files, so the null-file (with file association) feature in previous WinJar releases (1.23 and older) has been removed.
• Open archive: (CTRL-O) Opens a open dialog and prompts you for a archive. If that archives exists then WinJar will try to open it. If you specify a non-existent archive then WinJar will ask if you want to make that file (new feature).
• Open Special: This will open a Jar archive and then parse the output differently. You can choose not to parse the output or to add only the folders included in that archive. These two feature are useful when opening an archive with many files (10.000+), since adding many entries to the main listview can be very (and I meanVERY ) slow.
• Reopen archive: (CTRL-R) Opens current archive again, may be useful when you update an archive on the command-line, instead with WinJar.
• Information: (CTRL-I) Displays some additional information in the current open archive. The archives are always displayed in the Main ListBox, but this information dialog gives some extra information.
• Copy Archive: (F8) Copies the current archive to a new location. The original archive will still be the open one. The new archive will be renamed in case of a collision, this is done by Windows self.
• Delete Archive: (CTRL-Del) Deletes the current archive. Confirmation will be asked before deleting. Current archive will be closed, when successful.
• Move Archive: (F7) Move the current archive to a new directory. When the destination file does not exists, then WinJar will change the current archive to the new one, else it will close the archive. I do this because the move operation renames on collision and I don’t know which name is chosen on collision.
• Rename Archive: Give the archive a new name. As with "New", WinJar adds ".j" when no extension is specified, except when the filename ends with a "." (dot). You cannot use "Rename Archive" for moving, because all file-path parts of the given filename are removed. If operation was successful, then the current archive will be the one with the new name. The rename operation fails when the destination name exits.
• Close archive: (CTRL-C) Close the current archive.
• Exit: (ALT-F4) Well, what do you think this does ?
• 1, 2, 3, 4, etc: Most recently opened archives. These items are also available in the "Open Button", when you press it (popup-menu). The number of recent entries can be changed in the configuration dialog. There are no duplicates in the recent entries.

Actions:

• Add: (CTRL-A) Add files to current archive, see Add Dialog.
• Copy: Copy archive with new options, see Copy Dialog.
• Delete: (DEL) Delete files from current archive, see Delete Dialog .
• Extract: (CTRL-E) Extract files from current archive, see Extract Dialog .
• Generate Jar.cfg: Generate a default jar.cfg file, needed by jar32.exe. This is only needed if you didn’t copy that file or removed it accidently.
• Recover Header: Fixes the jar archive header. Asks for an archive and that archive will then be fixed. Fixed archive will be named "$recover.j". This option asks for an archive, because if an archive is corrupt, you probably won’t be able to open it in at all..
• Paste Files: (CTRL-V) In an Explorer window you can select files and then with the right mouse select "Copy". If you then look in the WinJar main menu, you will see that you can select "Paste Files". Selecting this will startup the Drag 'n Drop Add Dialog. See Drag ‘n Drop Dialog for more. No archive has to be opened for this option to work. If there is an open archive, then the archive where the files will be added to is initially the current open archive, but this can be changed.
• (De)Select All: (CTRL-/;CTRL-\) (De)select all files in the ListView
• Invert Selection: As the name suggests (not implemented yet).
• Test: (CTRL-T) Test the current JAR archive for errors.

Options:

• Configuration: Start the Configuration Dialog.
• Font: (CTRL-F) Select a font to be used in the ListView. Selected font is not saved to registry.
• Password: (CTRL-P) Enter a password, before opening a protected (and hidden contents) archive or when you want to change a protected archive. Some files are only protected, so you can see what's inside without the need of a password, but you can't change it (add or delete). See Main Listbox (below) about flags.
• Sort: Select different criteria of sorting. You can also do this by clicking the headers of the Main ListView.
• Stay On Top: When checked WinJar will stay on top of all other windows. This setting will not be saved and won't be remembered by the program. This is defaultly selected off.
• Save Settings Now: Save settings now.
• Save settings on exit: Saves settings on exit. When uninstalling, uncheck before exit.
• View last output: View last output file, only when you opened an archive or when you do some JAR operation and have "Show Dosbox" off (see Configuration for more info)

Help:

• Help: Displays this help-file. From version 2.2 this helpfile is in CHM (compressed HTML) format. If anyone finds an error please mail me. If you can improve it, then also mail me (i'll make the code available).
• About: About box.

Main Toolbar

A Word 97 look-a-like toolbar. Can be docked/undocked, can be left/right/top/bottom of the ListView. You can turn captions on or off (=large or small buttons).

There are three parts:

1. File operations: new, open, etc.
2. Archive operation: add/extract/delete/etc from the open archive.
3. Configuration/Help: Configuration, fonts, help and about.
   

Main ListView

This is where the files that are in an archive, are listed.

Press on the header for sorting. Drag and drop a header to rearrange the order of the displayed information (no longer available in from version 2.2). Select files just you do always in Windows 95/NT, with SHIFT/CTRL and click or with keys (space/ctrl/shift/key up/down etc).

Click this ListView when you want to abort an operation.

Via main menu you can select and deselect all files.

Main Listbox

This is used to display:

• Archive flags: The following flags are used by JAR:
  • LOCKED
  • AUTO_LOCK
  • RECOVERY RECORDS
  • SECURED
  • HIDDEN
  • ENCRYPTED
  • PROTECTED
• Current Chapter(s): See chapter section.
• Archive Comments: The archive comment come last. No chapter comments are displayed, only the archive comment.

Main statusbar

Statusbar displays, the following information:

1. Number of files in archive.
2. Real (unpacked) size of all those files in the archive.
3. Compression ratio
4. Selected file(s) info.

Clicking the status bar when WinJar is executing JAR, results in asking whether or not you want to terminated that operation.

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