This section shows the different toolbars and what they are used for.
The toolbar is divided into five major sections. Each section can be dragged
off the top area of the screen and located on each of the remaining sides,
or alternatively can be "floated" in the middle of the screen. Simply start
the drag near the border of the toolbar, outside the actual buttons or
gadgets.
The first group of tools is used to control the online status of GlobalFTP, and create new host profiles. The first button creates a new host profile.
Use the second button is used in a panic situation, and pushing it immediately terminates all network activity, and places the program in a "stopped" state, where no new network activities are started.
The third to last buttons are dependent (only one can be down at a time).
Push the red "Stop" button when you want an orderly stoppage of network
activity. When this button is pushed, no new network activity is started,
although you are free to queue up tasks such as directory listings and
file transfers. When the yellow "Intermediate" button is pushed, the program
enters a semi-started state where transfers are queued up to run later,
but all other activity is allowed to run. This allows all your fast commands
such as renames deletes and directory listings to run unencumbered by file
transfers. Once you've completed queuing up all your transfers, you can
hit the green "Go" button to allow the transfers to begin.
The second group of tools is used to control the clipboard. The first
three buttons are standard Copy/Cut/Paste that most windows programs provide.
Use these buttons to cut files and directories from one window to another.
The fourth button is used to mirror a directory. This is used to allow
you to only copy newer files from one directory branch to another. The
two parent directories of the source and target must be the same for the
button to be enabled. Simply highlight the source directory in the source
window, push the cut or copy button, then activate the target window, highlight
the same named target directory, and push the mirror button. This will
queue up a bunch of file transfers, but only newer files will actually
be copied. The rest of the transfers will complete with a yellow warning
smilie, saying "Can't overwrite existing file", meaning that the target
file was newer than the source.
The third group of tools is simply a display showing the network status
of the program. It's similar to the LED's of an external modem. The first
LED emulates the "Carrier Detect" LED of a modem, and is meant in this
case to indicate if the program is online or offline. The second two LED's
correspond to the "Recieve Data" and "Send Data" LED's of a modem. They
give you some visual feedback on how much traffic is being sent and received
by the program. It is not by any means meant to reflect actual traffic
going to a network card, it is simply provided for a visual clue as to
how busy the program is.
The fourth group of tools are counters. The first counter shows how many tasks are queued up for later execution. The second shows how many tasks are waiting for a free network resource to execute. The third shows how many tasks are actually running at one time. As each task completes, you'll see the waiting task counter decrement, and the active task counter increment.
The last two counters are only displayed if you have "Use advanced/debugging
interface" selected in the options. First one shows how many network sockets
are active, and the last one is a count of internal network tasks (only
meaningful to the programmer). The network task count corresponds to the
number of entries in the "Net Procs" tab of the System window (provided
you have all hosts selected in the tree window). These two don't provide
much useful information to the user, but can be interesting to watch.
The last group of tools correspond to the active system and explorer windows that you have open. As each new system or explorer window is opened, you'll see a new button appear in this bar. You can push the button to activate the corresponding window. Also, if you're dragging files off one window, you can drag them up to one of the buttons to activate the target drop window. If you have many many windows open, or you have a very small main window open, these buttons can quickly overflow. One solution to this would be to drag this toolbar to the bottom of the screen so it has more room to grow. The other is to float this bar in the middle of the screen. Either way, screen real estate is being used up. GlobalFTP works best at 1024x768 or greater, with the program maximized to use the entire screen area.
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