••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• Greg's Browser 2.7 (20 June 2000) ©1993-2000 Greg Landweber e-mail: greg@kaleidoscope.net ALL RIGHTS RESERVED www: http://www.kaleidoscope.net/greg/ SHAREWARE FEE: US $20 ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• Do you think the Finder is too slow and clumsy when navigating through your folder structure? Do you perhaps use a hierarchical Apple menu utility but are tired of zigging and zagging your mouse from submenu to submenu? Or maybe you just like miniature icons. If so, then you should try Greg's Browser. Displaying multiple folders in a single window, Greg's Browser lets you simultaneously see the contents of a folder, its parent, and a subfolder, providing a quick and easy way of moving both up and down through your folder hierarchy. Greg's Browser can even browse inside StuffIt archives as if they were normal folders. I would like to thank Leonard Rosenthol for his help with the StuffIt 5 archive format and the enhanced Magic Menu. Basic Usage To select a file or folder, just click once on its name in the file lists. If you select a folder, the Browser displays its contents in the file list immediately to the right. If there is not space for another file list, the Browser slides all the file lists left to make room. You can select multiple files simultaneously by holding down the or keys while clicking. The Browser draws a border around the active file list, and at the bottom of the window it displays the icon, name, and various other information about the currently selected files. You can browse into StuffIt archives as if they were normal folders, in which case the Browser displays the expanded and compressed size of the file at the bottom of the window. Double clicking on an entry in the file lists opens the selected files or folders just like in the Finder. In particular, this action launches applications, opens documents with their creators, and opens folder windows within the Finder. You can achieve the same result with the “Open” command in the File menu, with its -O keyboard equivalent, or with -. If you are browsing through StuffIt archive, double clicking on files unstuffs them. To move back up through the folder hierarchy, click on the title box above one of the file lists. If you click and release quickly, the Browser slides the file lists right by one position. If you hold the mouse down, the Browser pops up a menu letting you choose how far you want to move up the folder structure. When you release the mouse, the Browser slides the file lists right repeatedly until it displays the folder you selected. From the keyboard, you can hit or to slide the file lists right by one position. To change the name of the selected file, either click on the file name at the bottom of the Browser window or press the key. Clicking anywhere else in the window or pressing the or keys saves your changes to the file name and updates the file lists accordingly. To cancel editing the file name without making any changes, press the key. You cannot edit the names of locked files or certain critical files and folders in your system folder. To change the file type or creator code of the selected file, either click on the file kind at the bottom of the Browser window or press -. Clicking anywhere else in the window or pressing the key saves your changes to the file type and creator and updates the file lists accordingly. To cancel editing the file type and creator without making any changes, press the key. You cannot edit the file type and creator for folders or locked files. Bookmarks The row of icons at the top of the window and the trash icon at the lower right act as “bookmarks”, letting you jump quickly to a file or folder that you use frequently. To add a new bookmark, drag the desired file or folder from its file list and drop it on one of the empty spaces at the top of the window. To move a bookmark from one slot to another, just drag it from its former position to one of the remaining empty spaces. To remove a bookmark, drag it away from the top of the window so that its shadow disappears; you need not drag it to the trash. The Desktop and Trash bookmarks are fixed in their positions and cannot be removed. If you click once on a bookmark, the Browser jumps to the corresponding position in the file lists. If you hold down the