XanaNews - Explaining the User Interface (part 1 of 2)

XanaNews > Help > Contents > Explaining the User Interface > The Workspace

The Workspace
Here's what XanaNews looks like.
At the top is the Menu, and the Toolbar containing a set of buttons. At
the bottom is the Status Bar. In between these are the four main XanaNews
areas - the Subscribed Groups tree, the Message Tree, the Queued Requests
tree and the Message Pane.

XanaNews > Help > Contents > Explaining the User Interface > The Menu

The Menu
The XanaNews main menu contains:
*The File Menu         Import, Export, Save etc.
*The Edit Menu         Copy, Cut, Paste etc.
*The View Menu         Change the view.
*The Search Menu       Perform XanaNews' various searching functions.
*The Account Menu      Add, Remove & Modify accounts and server connections.
*The Newsgroup Menu    Perform actions on Newsgroups.
*The Messages Menu     Message related items.
*The Bookmarks Menu    Manage your bookmarks.
*The Tools Menu        Set up and manage XanaNews.
*The Help Menu         Online help.

XanaNews > Help > Contents > Explaining the User Interface > File Menu

File Menu
From the File Menu you can Import & Export messages, create folders where
you can archive old but interesting messages, save attachments, and even
change the location on your computer where messages are stored.
Export Selected Articles
Allows you to save selected messages as a text file, for instance so
that they can be loaded into other programs.
The text file is formatted according to RFC-822. It therefore contains
the first message's header lines; a blank line; the first message's body
lines; a dot on a line on its own; the second message's header lines, etc.
Import Articles
Import articles from a text file. XanaNews expects the text file to be in
RFC-822 format.
Export Compressed Messages
When you select this, XanaNews displays a separate form, which allows you
to select which groups you want to export, and the file you want to export
them to.
The form contains an additional option that allows you to save XanaNews'
settings along with the messages. This makes it easy to move your message
base and settings from one computer to another in a single file.
XanaNews exports compressed messages in the proprietary '.xns' format.
Import Compressed Messages
Load messages that were exported into an 'XNS' file. If the 'XNS' file
contains XanaNews settings, the settings are exported too.
Save Article as HTML
Convert an article to HTML format and save it - so that it can be
incorporated into a web page or Blog.
Additionally, the message pane right-click Popup Menu contains an option
to save an article to the clipboard in HTML format.
New Archived Message Folder
Rename Archived Message Folder
Delete Archived Message Folder
Empty Archived Message Folder
Re-Index Archived Message Folder
The functions allow you to add, rename, delete, empty and re-index
Archived Message Folders
Note that re-indexing archived message folders is not normally required.
It may be used if the archived folder becomes corrupted.
Find Folder Message in Message Base
Select this option when an archives message is selected. XanaNews will
attempt to find the same message in its message base, so you can see it
in its threaded view.
Reload Selected Messages from Folder
Copies the selected messages in an archived messages folder to the
original position in the message base.
Reload All Messages from Folder
Copies all messages from an archived messages folder to their original
positions in the message base.
Save Attachment (F2)
Save the selected attachment to a separate file on your computer.
Save Attachments in Selected messages (F3)
Save all attachments in the selected messages to separate files on your
computer.
Setup Printer
Invoke the Windows printer setup dialog, which allows you to configure
your printer.
Print Message
Print the selected message(s)
Move Messagebase
Move all messages to a new location on your computer.
By default messages are stored in a local application data folder.
Typically this is "c:\Documents and Settings\<your name>\Local Settings
\Application Data\Woozle\XanaNews", and is the best place for it. It
allows several people to use your computer - each with separate XanaNews
settings and messages.
Exit
Close XanaNews. If you have the Show in System Tray setting enabled,
XanaNews will be minimized to the system tray and will continue to run.
Otherwise it will be terminated.

XanaNews > Help > Contents > Explaining the User Interface > Edit Menu

Edit Menu
The Edit Menu allows you to perform the usual Windows 'Edit functions -
Copy, Paste, etc.
Copy (Ctrl+C)
Copy copies the selected text in the message pane to the clipboard.
Delete (Del)
When the Subscribed Groups Tree is selected, and has some selected
groups, XanaNews unsubscribes from these groups.
Otherwise, if messages are selected in the message tree, XanaNews marks
them for deletion.
Select All (Ctrl+A)
If the Subscribed Groups Tree is selected, all groups are selected.
Otherwise, XanaNews selects all messages in the message tree.
Select Thread (Ctrl+T)
Select all messages in the current thread in the message tree.
Select Sub-Thread (Shift+Ctrl+T)
Selects all child messages for the current message
Copy Link to Clipboard
Copy currently selected link in the message pane to the clipboard,
performing unwrapping if necessary.

XanaNews > Help > Contents > Explaining the User Interface > View Menu

View Menu
The View menu lets you control how messages are displayed in XanaNews
Headers
A submenu containing options to control how message headers appear in
the message pane:
*None      Don't display headers in the message pane.
*Short     Just display key headers (From, Subject, Date, Message-Id
           & Lines) in the message pane.
*Full      Display all headers in the message pane.
*Custom    Display only headers selected in the Custom headers in
           Message Pane options.
Messages
A submenu containing the following options to control how messages
appear in the message pane:
*Normal          Messages are displayed with all text formatting and
                 inline images.
*Raw Text Parts  Text formatting is omitted, but images are displayed
                 inline.
*Raw             Messages are displayed with no text formatting or
                 image decoding.
*Images Only     Only images in a message are displayed. The text is
                 omitted.
'Raw Text Parts'; can be especially useful when viewing programming
language source code - where some symbols in the source code may
otherwise be interpreted as bold, italic or underline indicators
Group Multipart Messages
When Group Multipart Messages is selected, XanaNews displays messages
chronologically, sorted by subject. It detects multipart attachments
(attachments that should be built up by combining several messages),
and displays these in a tree, with the first message at the root, and
subsequent messages for the same attachment as children.
To combine, decode and save a complete attachment when 'Group Multipart
Messages' is selected:
*Make sure you have downloaded all the multipart message bodies. If not,
 select the thread and choose 'Get Thread Message Bodies' from the
 message tree right-click popup menu.
*Select the first message (the root one).
*Do File/Save Attachment (F2). The messages will be combined and the
 attachment will be saved.
If you need to adjust the order of messages before they are combined,
use the Combine & Decode Selected Messages option instead.
Hide Read Messages (Ctrl+H
Hides messages that you have already read when you select a group. Once
the group is selected, read messages still remain until you exit and
re-enter the group.
Note that the read messages are not deleted. You can un-hide them by
reselecting the option.
Show Bookmark Pane (Ctrl+B)
The Bookmark Pane appears between the message tree and the message pane
when you select this option, and the Bookmark menu is enabled.
This option is automatically selected when you select 'Search to
Bookmark' when searching for messages.
Show Subscribed Groups Pane (Ctrl+S)
This options allows you to hide/show the Subscribed Group pane, to give
yourself more width when viewing messages.
Show Secret Accounts & Newsgroups (T)
Accounts and Newsgroups can both be marked as Secret in Account
Properties and Newsgroup Properties.
Secret accounts and newsgroups don't show up when you first start
XanaNews. You can show them by pressing 'T' and instantly hide them
again by giving it another press.

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