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: Removes all items and reset attributes for the root node. | |||
== Other Options == | == Other Options == |
Revision as of 12:24, 12 April 2006
You can access the main menu both
- from the main window clicking the Menu button
- right-clicking the tray icon
- Load/Save file system
- You can store/retrieve the Virtual File System to/from files.
- Clear file system
- Removes all items and reset attributes for the root node.
Other Options
- Auto-copy URL on addition
- Every time you add a file, the URL is automatically copied in the clipboard.
- Always on top
- Makes HFS window on top of other windows.
- Send HFS identifier
- There is a standard way for HTTP servers to be recognized by clients. HFS does it, but you can turn it off.
- Persistent connections
- Browsers open multiple connections when they download a page with icons.
- If you turn off this option, then there will be a connection for every icon they download. This is slow. For more details read further.
- The old protocol (HTTP 1.0) stated that for every file you had to get from a web server, you had to open a specific (TCP) connection. To open a TCP connection can be slow. Less connections you open, faster you go. This is why the new protocol (HTTP 1.1) let us retrieve more files with a single connection.
- All recent browsers do this way. Usually it does not speed up a single file download, but it can drastically speed up browsing through folders. You can turn this option off if you need to. When it is OFF, the connection is closed after each fulfilled request.
- Getright browser specific HTML
- Getright has an internal browser, to browse through the links of a webpage. This feature makes Getright getting an optimised HTML, for a better browsing experience.
- Edit HTML template
- You can customize the appearance of pages HFS furnishes to browsers.
- Graph refresh rate
- This is the time in which the Bandwidth graph moves forward. Littler is the value, faster it will move.
- MIME types
- This is for techies. Here you can associate files (by <a href='#filemask'>filemasks</a>) to MIME types. You can find somewhere else in this guide a description of what a MIME type is.
- Users
- A user is often also called account. To be recognized as a specific user, people has to login. You can define privileges for users (and also limits in future versions).
- Use comment as realm
- If a realm is not specified, the comment is sent as realm. You can find somewhere else in this guide a description of what the realm is.
- Login realm
- Specify a realm for the LOGIN button.
- Hints for newcomers
- Display some extra hints.
Start/Exit
Here you can find features about the starting and quitting of the program.
- Auto-copy URL on start
- Copy the root URL in the clipboard as the program starts.
- Start minimized
- As the program is started, the window is minimized.
- Reload on startup VFS file previously open
- If you had a VFS file open the last time you quit, then it will be automatically reloaded.
- Auto-save VFS on exit
- If you have a VFS open, and it is modified, it will be automatically saved on quitting.
- Auto-close
- Here you can specify when the program should automatically quit
- No downloads timeout
- Quit when nothing is sent for a while.
Virtual File System
- Folders before
- Folders are always shown on top of other items.
- Use system icons
- You should care about this option. It makes specific file icons appears instead of the generic icon.
- This can be very nice but can also slow down HFS drastically in at last 3 ways:
- when you add a folder from the disc as virtual one. At that time, HFS will load icons for every file, and if you got thousands of files this could be a lengthy operation.
- when you have a real folder and someone browse it. At that time HFS will load all icons, as said before.
- when people browse a page, it will have to download every icon and this could take much time and bandwidth.
- List files with hidden/system attribute
- Believe it or not, your files have attributes. This option determines if files with that specific attribute are shown.
- List protected items only for allowed users
- You can hide protected (by password or account) items from being listed to unauthorized browsers.
- Reset hits/downloads
- Reset the counter for all items.
Limits
- Speed limit
- Specify the max total bandwidth HFS will use sending files.
- Pause streaming
- Stops file sending, but does not break connections. In facts it just set the "speed limit" to zero, temporarily.
- Max connections
- The maximum number of connections allowed.
- Max connections for single address
- The maximum number of connections allowed from the same IP address.
- Connections inactivity timeout
- If a connection is inactive for a while, it can be automatically broken.
- Bans
- You can prevent clients from specified IP addresses.
The shell context menu is that menu shown when you right-click a file or folder.
- Add for files
- Add a reference to HFS in the file menu.
- Add for folders
- Add a reference to HFS in the folder menu.
- Add for all
- Add it for files and folders.
- Associate .vfs
- Associates VFS files to HFS, so you can just double-click on them.
- Delete
- Deletes files association and menu items.
Flash task button
The taskbar is that bar with the famous START button on it. The task button is the button on the taskbar with HFS written on it. You can make it flash to alert you about events.
- On download
- Flash when a file is requested.
- On connection
- Flash when a connection is established.
- Never
- Well, don't.
Tray icons
Tray icons are those icons in the bottom-right corner of your screen.
- Minimize to tray
- When you minimize the program, the taskbutton is hidden and only the tray icon remains.
- Show main tray icon
- If this option is ON, the main tray icon is always displayed, no matter if the program is not minimized.
- The tray icon shows
- The main tray icon display a number. You can decide what this number means.
- Tray message
- When the mouse is over the main tray icon, it displays a message. You can customize it.
- Tray icon for each download
- You can get multiple tray icons. For every file download an icon will be created, displaying the progress.
- No tray icon for file extentions
- You disable the option above for certain file types.
IP address
Here you can select the IP address HFS should use forming URLs in the "Address bar". If you have dynamic IP address, and it changes, HFS will auto-switch to a similar address.
- Custom
- Sometimes it is useful to type the address yourself. E.g. if you have your own domain or you are NATted.
URL encoding
- Encode spaces
- You can disable space encoding to avoid those %20. Please notice that your chat will likely not recognize the full URL.
- Encode non-ASCII characters
- ASCII characters are alphanumerics and few more. They are usually encoded in the %NN form.
- Use UNICODE in HTML
- Non-ASCII characters are subject to incompatibilities. UNICODE systems solve this problem with an international standard for characters. Some systems do not support it, so it is your choice to use it or not.
Save options
You can decide where and if to save options.