Viewer User Interface

Viewer commands are accessible from the menu bar. Commands are grouped by function (‘File’, ‘Edit’, ‘View’, ‘Window’, ‘Help’). Each function has its own entry (command) in the menus. Menu commands may be activated with the mouse or the keyboard.

• To open a menu, perform one of the following:
• Use the mouse. Click the menu name (for example, File) and then click the command you want (for example, Open Scan File).
• Use the shortcut keys. Shortcut keys are shown to the right of the command in the menus. For example, CTRL+o is a shortcut used to open a scan file.
• Use the access key. Access keys are indicated by an underscore on the active letter. For example, the Open Scan File command in the File menu is accessed by pressing Alt-F and then O.

You can access a shortcut menu related to your current activity by positioning the mouse cursor on the appropriate area of the workspace and clicking on the right mouse button.

Toolbars allow you to access various commands without using the menu.

Click the toolbar icon to activate the function associated with it.

Buttons in the toolbar offer the following functionality:

Icon	Name	Function
	Open Scan File	Loads inventory data from an XSF file.
	Options	Displays the Viewer Options dialog box.
	Copy	Copies the information in the currently selected tab to the clipboard.
	Copy to File	Copies the information in the currently selected tab to a file.
	Compare	Compares two scans.
	Find File	Finds a file within a scan.
	Tile Horizontally	Tiles windows horizontally.
	Tile Vertically	Tiles windows vertically.
	Cascade	Cascades windows.
	Arrange Icons	Aligns all icons of minimized windows.
	Help	Displays the help text for Viewer.

Moving a Toolbar

The toolbar can be dragged and positioned to be aligned to the top of the window, the left of the window or into a floating state.

To move a toolbar:

Click the “move” handle on a docked toolbar (one that is attached to one edge of the program window), and drag it to a new location.

When you drag a toolbar to the edge of a window, the toolbar outline snaps into place along the length of the window edge.

You can dock a floating toolbar by double-clicking on the title bar.

Resizing a Toolbar

To resize a floating toolbar:

Move the pointer over any edge until it changes to a double-headed arrow, and then drag the edge of the toolbar.

Tab pages in Viewer allow you to examine the data from a loaded scan file. You can select the following tab pages:

• Summary
• Hardware and Configuration
• Directories and Files
• Stored Files
• Software Applications (only displayed if Application Recognition was set as an option). See Configuring Recognition Settings for further information.

A status bar at the bottom of the Viewer workspace displays information about the current loaded scan file.

 

The status bar has three panels:

• The first panel displays the current system date and time.
• The second panel displays the number of scans currently loaded.
• The third panel displays the name of the scan file currently displayed along with a brief description.

You can quickly accomplish tasks you perform frequently by using shortcut keys.

Task	Keyboard Shortcut
Open Scan File	CTRL+o
Close	CTRL+F4
Options	CTRL+t
Exit Viewer	ALT+x
Copy	CTRL+c
Compare	CTRL+m
Find File	CTRL+f
Show Advanced Hardware View	CTRL+v

Click on a column list header to sort and reverse sort the order of the information, alphabetically or numerically in ascending order (A to Z, a to z or zero to 9) or descending order (Z to A, z to a or 9 to zero).

Double-clicking on the splitter icon between columns will expand the column width to the maximum cell width.

You can save or copy the contents of all tab pages.

To copy the contents of a tab page to the clipboard:

1. Select the Copy command from the Edit menu, or click the icon in the Viewer.
2. Paste the contents to an editor of your choice.

To save the contents of a tab page to a file:

1. Select the Copy to file… command from the Edit menu (text files only), or click the icon in the Viewer.
2. Use standard Windows navigation methods to select or enter a file and the location where the file is to be saved.

You can locate a file from any point within Viewer. This can facilitate the location of files for a machine across multiple drives.

To locate a file from any point:

1. Select the Find File command in the Edit menu, or click the icon. The Find File dialog box appears.
2. In the Name box, type the name of the file you want to find. You can use DOS wildcard characters, (using * and ?) as well as normal alphanumeric characters.
3. Click the Find Now button.

If files matching the file name or mask are located, they are displayed in the Search Results list box.

If the search is lengthy, you can abort the search (with partial results being displayed) by clicking the Stop button.

4. Highlight a file entry in the Search Results list.
5. Click the Goto button or double-click on a file entry.

The Directories and Files tab of Viewer is displayed in the background showing the located file.

6. To clear the entries and carry out a new search, click the New Search button.