Usage
overview
- Enter an http address in the address field
of the embedded browser. This address should be chosen as containing a list
of thumbs galleries. Then press the Enter key or click the Go button.
- When the page is displayed, find a link
containing a thumbnail gallery, then ctrl-click on this link (click while
pressing the left control key). The URL address of the link is copied into
the scanner address field and the "analyzing html page" indicator
light starts twinkling red, indicating that ThumbNavigator is searching
thumbs in the chosen link and the other pages of the linked site.
- If thumbnail pictures linked to full-sized
pictures are found in these pages, the "downloading files"
indicator light starts twinkling green, and a new tab is created behind the
Main tab for each page containing thumbs. Click on the tab, and you will see
the thumbnail images appear inside the tab.
- Press the "Get all" button to
start downloading all the full-sized pictures, or click on the thumbs you
want to download (they start twinkling yellow), then press the "Get
selected" button to start downloading the chosen pictures.
- When the indicator light of a downloading
thumb becomes green, the full-sized picture can be displayed in full screen.
Simply double-click on the thumb. When displayed in full screen, press the
space bar to display the next available picture, or backspace to see the
previous one.
- If you want to keep these images on disk for
future off-line views, press the Close button, otherwise press the Throw
button to delete thumbnails and full-sized images from disk before closing
the tab.
- Click the Viewer | browse menu to see the
list of all the pictures available on disk. Double-click on an item to
display the picture in full screen view. Press the space bar to display the
next image. Backspace displays the previous one. The '+' key displays the
first image of the next tab, and '-' the first image of the previous tab.
Press 'Esc' to exit.
Embedded
browser
Using your favorite browser:
From your browser, simply copy the link
supposed to contain thumbs to the clipboard (right-click on the link and click
"Copy"), then switch to ThumbNavigator (e.g. by Alt + Tab) and
right-click on the scanner address field. This pastes the link in the
field and starts analyzing recursively the pages of the site.
Using the embedded browser:
The embedded browser has minimal
features. Use it or not? The embedded browser is
not necessary, but very useful. Simply enter an http address containing a
list of thumbnail galleries in the embedded browser address edit field, then
press <Enter> or click on the "Go" button.
To send links to analyze directly in the html
pages scanner, simply hold the ctrl-key and click on the link. The link is
copied into the html pages scanner and the scanning starts immediately. On the
other hand, redirections and pop-up windows are disabled in embedded browser.
For this reason you won't be worried with redirections and pop-up windows...
- By pressing the ctrl-key, the "browser
captures" indicator light twinkles blue and indicates that clicking on
the links will capture them into the html scanner;
- You can ctrl-click several links
simultaneously, they will be scanned together. But you could have a lot of
tabs opened!
Html
pages scanner
Description
The scanner recursively analyses html pages,
starting from the page entered in the address edit field, and limiting the
scanning to the site of the initial URL. As soon as thumbnails are found, tabs
are created behind the "Main" tab. Clicking on the tab allows to see
the thumbnails. Click here for more info about tabs.
The search depth value allows to limit the
number of pages read, to avoid opening too much tabs on huge sites.
Buttons and indicator lights
start button:
Starts analysis of the html address entered in the address edit field. This
address is supposed to be a thumbnail gallery page, or a page linking to this
page (limited to the search depth level value). The analysis ends when:
- all the pages from the site have been gone through,
- the search depth level has been reached for all the links,
- the stop html analysis button has been pressed.
reload button:
allows reloading already analyzed html pages from disk if the store
pages on disk option is enabled.
analyzing html pages twinkling indicator light:
twinkles red while analyzing html pages, twinkles yellow while ending html
downloads when stop or exit is required.
downloading files twinkling indicator light:
twinkles red while downloading jpg/gif pictures, twinkles yellow while ending
jpg/gif downloads when stop or exit queried.
stop html analysis button:
ends the html pages analysis.
stop files downloads button:
ends the jpg/gif files downloads currently running. The uncompleted downloads
are deleted.
search depth level:
On huge sites, a high value can return all the images from the site, opening a
lot of tabs (1 per thumbnail gallery page found). A range between 4 and 8
usually provides good results.
browser captures indicator light:
The browser captures indicator lights on when pressing the ctrl-key. This
feature allows catching a link displayed in the embedded browser by
ctrl-clicking it. This action sends it directly to the html scanner and starts
analyzing the related pages. This is intended to avoid repetitive copy / paste +
"press start" clicks between your favorite browser and ThumbNavigator.
INTEGRATED FULL-SCREEN VIEWER
Description
The full-screen viewer is very simple to use:
it lists all the jpg/gif files contained in the ThumbNavigator storage folder
(Options | Preferences | Files downloads | storage folder).
To enter the offline viewer click on Viewer
in the main ThumbNavigator menu. Then press the browse option to list the
available images. Double-click on an item to display the picture in full screen.
Pressing the space bar displays the next image,
pressing the back-space key displays the previous one. The '+' key displays the
first image of the next tab, and '-' the first image of the previous tab. Press
'Esc' to exit.
Menu options
Browse:
recursively scans the storage folder and lists all the jpg/gif files found.
Filter:
- unviewed:
lists only the pictures that have never been seen,
- size > show only thumbs:
lists only the thumb-sized pictures,
- size > show only full size:
lists only the full-sized pictures,
- size > show thumbs and full
size: lists all the pictures found,
- search string:
lists only pictures with path / file name containing the specified string
- clear :
lists all the pictures
Sort by:
- Date: the
files are sorted according to their creation date (displayed as "yy/mm/dd"),
- File size: the
files are according to their file size,
- Path tree:
the files are sorted according to their complete path\filename,
- File name:
the files are sorted according to their filename, no matter of their path,
- descending:
if enabled, the sort direction is descending, else the sort direction is
ascending.
Options
> show info on full screen display:
- if enabled, info are displayed around the full screen image,
- if disabled, the image appears alone on a black background.
THUMBNAIL TABS
Description
Thumbnail tabs are created behind
the Main tab for every html page found containing thumbnails.
The number on the title of the tab
is the thumbs count of the corresponding page.
A soon as the tab appears, you can
click on it. As the thumbs are downloaded, they appear on the tab with a static
indicator light:
-
A red color
indicates that the full-sized picture has not yet been downloaded. By
clicking on the thumb the indicator light twinkles yellow, indicating that
the full-sized picture has been selected to be downloaded. Click on
"Get selected" to download it.
-
A green color
indicates
that the full-sized picture already exists in the storage folder. By
clicking on the thumb you will see the full-sized picture in full screen.
Press Esc to go back to the tab, or Space to see the next available picture
and Backspace to see the previous one.
-
A twinkling yellow
color
indicates that the full-sized picture
has been selected to be downloaded. Simply press the "Get
selected" button to start downloading the selected pictures.
Buttons
get all:
starts downloading ALL the full-sized pictures corresponding to the currently
displayed thumbs. As soon as the thumb indicator lights green, you can click on
the thumb to see the full-sized picture.
get
selected:
starts downloading the full-sized pictures corresponding to the currently
selected thumbs (thumbs with a yellow twinkling indicator light). As soon as the
thumb indicator lights green, you can click on the thumb to see the full-sized
picture.
select all:
selects all the not yet downloaded thumbs (red indicator light). The indicators
light twinkles yellow, waiting for you to press the "get selected"
button to start downloads.
unselect
all:
unselects
all the selected thumbs.
throw:
deletes the thumbs and full-sized pictures of the currently displayed tab from
the storage folder, then close the tab. If you reload this page, the thumbs and
full-sized pictures will be downloaded again.
close:
closes the tab and preserves the downloaded thumbs and full-sized pictures in
the storage folder. If you reload this page, the thumbs and full-sized pictures
will be shown immediately, because it will not be necessary to download them
again.
OPTIONS
Clear
empty directories
when tabs are opened, thumbs and full-sized pictures are downloaded. if the
"Throw" button is clicked, the tab is closed and all the files are
deleted, but the directories used to store the files remain in the storage
folder. This option allows to delete all the remaining empty directories from
the storage folder.
Preferences : Thumbs
first get full-sized
pictures:
when the html scanner discovers generally
several pages with a lot of thumbs, and clicking on the "get selected"
or "get all" may not be immediately effective because there is a lot
of thumbs waiting for download in the queue. If this option is enabled, the
full-sized pictures are added at the top of the list and are downloaded firstly.
disable "no pictures found..." warning:
if the html scanner doesn't find any pictures in the related html pages, a
warning is displayed with an "Ok" button. If this option is disabled,
only the red indicator light stops twinkling, indicating that no thumbs have
been found.
Preferences: HTML scanning
Url keywords filter:
if enabled, all the URLs containing one of
the keywords listed is eliminated. A good set of keywords is the
following:
count
hitbox
referrer
stat
track.
Enter only one keyword per line, and be careful with short keywords (e.g.
the single letter "a" as keyword removes all the URLs containing the
"a" letter).
max queue size for html pages downloads:
this is the higher number of html pages waiting for download in the queue.
This limitation is intended to avoid memory problems with huge queues, when
several thousand of links are found.
concurrent html pages downloads:
the number of pages simultaneously downloaded. A value between 5 and 15 is a
good choice. They are REAL concurrent downloads, no matter to the limitations of
the Wininet API. If you increase the value you MUST restart ThumbNavigator for
this new value to be effective.
reset to default value:
resets the concurrent downloads number to his default value.
store
pages on disk:
if enabled, the html pages are stored in the storage folder, allowing to reload
them from the html scanner. With this option enabled you can reload quickly
already scanned pages, but this creates also a lot of html pages directories in
the storage folder.
Preferences: Files downloads
storage folder:
the folder where all the downloaded files (jpg, gif and html) will be stored.
This folder have a "like web" structure (e.g. for an Url like http://www.foo.com/images/thepic.jpg
the file path will be www.foo.com\images\thepic.jpg inside the storage folder.
The default folder when installing ThumbNavigator is "Program
Files\ThumbNavigator\Download".
concurrent downloads:
the number of html pages and jpg/gif files that
can simultaneously be downloaded. A value between 5 and 15 is a good choice.
They are REAL concurrent downloads, no matter to the limitations of the Wininet
API. If you increase the value you MUST restart ThumbNavigator for this new
value to be effective.
max queue size:
this is the higher number of jpg/gif files waiting for download in the queue.
This limitation is intended to avoid memory problems with huge queues, when
several thousand of links are found.
Preferences: Proxy
THESE PARAMETERS DOES NOT APPLY TO
THE EMBEDDED BROWSER, BUT ONLY TO THE HTML PAGES SCANNER AND THE JPG/GIF FILES
DOWNLOADER. The embedded browser is Internet Explorer parameters dependent.
proxy options:
direct connection to internet:
no proxy parameters used
use proxy:
uses the proxy parameters to connect to internet
use Internet Explorer defaults:
uses the Control Panel | Internet Options settings.
ip address:
ip address of the proxy server
port:
http port of the proxy server
user name:
if needed for proxy authentication
password:
if needed for proxy authentication
Preferences: Connection
retry count:
number of times ThumbNavigator tries to
reconnect if a connection error occurs
timeout:
number of seconds ThumbNavigator waits the
connection before returning an error
site authentication user:
intended to use for site authentication
site authentication
password:
intended to use for site authentication
Preferences: Viewer
Don't show picture
comments in full screen display:
if enabled, when clicking on a thumb in a tab
page, the full-sized picture is displayed in a full screen view without any
comment (image alone on a black background).
OFFLINE
If store pages on
disk has been enabled while scanning html pages online, when offline you can
reload and review the stored html pages.
Simply choose in the html scanner
combo box an already scanned URL. If the html page exists on disk the reload
button is enabled. Click the reload button. The page tabs appears behind the
home tab. Click on the thumbs with a green indicator light and display the
corresponding full-sized pictures in full screen.
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