3.3 Browsing Through An Archive

Once an archive has been open, the contents of its root directory are displayed inside the lister. Each line in the lister represents a file or a directory (displayed in boldface) and shows some of its attributes. Which attributes are actually displayed depends on what columns you have picked in the preferences (see configuration/main lister).

Double clicking on a directory (directories are displayed in boldface and have a small drawer beside their names), you make the lister display the contents of that directory, thus going down one level in archive's directory tree. To go one level up, i.e. showing the contents of the current dir's parent, just press the Parent button, while Roottakes you directly to the root dir.

The name of the directory whose contents are currently shown in the main lister is displayed inside the text gadget at the top, while the popup gadget on the right opens a small window showing the tree structure of the archive. Double clicking on a name inside that window takes you immediately to the corresponding directory.

Below the main listview there are some text fields displaying the total size of all objects contained into the current directory and the size of selected objects. To select some files or directories just use the mouse over the desired line of the lister, or use the popup selection object.

In facts, by clicking on the Select button, a popup object will be opened, whose purpose is to let you specify a selection pattern. Once you have done it click on the first button to include all files and dirs whose name match that pattern, on the second to deselect all matching objects or on the third to toggle selection of matching objects.

You can also select all/none or toggle the entire selection by activating the corresponding items of the Select submenu, on both main menu strip and main lister context menu.

Next to the name of the currently loaded archive there is a button, that opens a popup object displaying some global info about the archive. This object also contains a string gadget to change archive's comment.

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