gbNavigate - Online Help
This page provides the latest online Help information for gbNavigate.
gbNavigate is a freeware program which provides an extremely easy-to-use
method of searching for a folder and then opening that folder in
a window of its own. Search features can span up to 5 drives and refreshes
of the folder database are extremely fast.
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Overview
gbNavigate's main (and only) screen is shown below. In addition to the buttons
and textboxes within the window gbNavigate offers the following menu options:
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Options
Auto Close
Auto Open
Go To List After Find
End Only
.Within
Delete Settings
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Web Site
Web Site
Online Help
Online Update
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About
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Data for gbNavigate is kept in a single text file. The
file name is fixed and must be kept in the same folder
as the gbNavigate executable.
While gbNavigate provide a convenient way of creating and searching
the folders database, users may also use a standard text edit to
edit the content of the files (although that should be a rare requirement).
The following controls/features are found on the main screen:
- Entry textbox
Text entered here is used for Find and Find Within operations.
- Find
Uses the content of the Entry textbox to perform a search against the database
- Find Within
Uses the content of the Entry textbox to perform a search against the results of the last Find/Find Within operation
- Result Counter
Displays the count of folders found that match the serach criteria
- Display Options
Choice of displaying the folder in a DOS, Explorer, or standard window
- Folders listbox
Displays all folders matching the most recent Find/Find Within operation.
- Refresh
Refreshes the folder database using the selected drives
- Edit
Calls up the folders database in Notepad
- Drives
Five check boxes which correspond to available drives on the host PC
- Date
Late date that the database was updated
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Menu Options
gbNavigate provides two menus - Options and Help.
Options menu selections include:
- Auto Close
Automatically exits from gbNavigate when a folder window is opened
- Auto Open
Automatically opens the folder when a single folder match is found
- Go to List after Find
After a Find operation, focus is set to the listbox so that the up/down arrow keys can be used to cycle between the Find results.
- End Only
Alters Find action so that only the end folder of a path is used to find a match
- .Within
As a keyboard speed feature, any search string ending in a period '.' will tell gbNavigate to use the Find Within command
rather than the Find command when Enter is pressed. The period is not used in the search itself.
- Delete Settings
Deletes all registry settings for gbFind
Help menu selections include:
- Web Site
Opens the default browser at Gary Beene's Freeware Information Center
- Online Help
Opens the default browser at the gbNavigate Online Help page.
- Online Updates
Opens a dialog window from which the latest version of gbNavigate can be downloaded.
- About
Shows the revision level of the installed version of gbNavigate
Overview