jBoom

Usage
SourceForge project page
The toolbar
The toolbar performs some important tasks. To see a short description of an icon (and the corresponding keyboard shortcut), let the mouse pointer hover above it for a while.

LED
A click on the LED shows some version information. The LED's color informs about the connection status:
There is an active connection to a remote system.
No active remote connection, but a local bookmark file exists.
Neither an active connection nor a local file is present. Bookmarks will not be stored.
New folder
Select the target folder in which the new subfolder shall be created, or any bookmark in the target folder.
Click on the symbol New folder.
Press Ctrl+F.
A dialog appears in which you may set the folder name and optionally enter a comment. The name must not yet exist in the target folder.
New bookmark
Select the target folder in which the bookmark shall be created, or an existing bookmark after which the new one is to be inserted. If the corresponding page is shown in the browser, you can copy the URL from the address field into the system clipboard (normally by pressing Ctrl+C).
Click on the symbol New bookmark.
Press Ctrl+B.
A dialog containing inputs for name, URL and comment appears. The URL field is preset with the content of the clipboard. The name is preset with either the page title (if "name from title" in the configuration dialog is selected) or a string built from the URL. All fields are editable. The URL field must contain a syntactically correct URL, except that the leading http:// may be omitted. Close the dialog by clicking on "OK" or hitting the enter key.
Moving entries
Select one or more entries within a single folder.
A click on nach oben moves the selected entries one position up, nach oben one position down. The movement is circular; an entry being pushed above the top of the folder appears at the bottom, and vice versa.
The key combinations Alt+↑ and Alt+↓ move up and down respectively.
Sorting entries
Select either the folder to be sorted or entries within that folder and click on Sort. The contents of the folder will be sorted alphabetically in ascending order. If "folders first" in the configuration dialog is activated, subfolders will be arranged before bookmarks. If the option "recursive" is activated, subfolders within this folder will be sorted as well.
Search
Click on the Symbol Search in the toolbar.
Press F3.
In the lower part of the main window the search dialog shows up.

At least one of the checkboxes "Names" and "URLs" must be selected. The found URL will be selected in the bookmark tree. The text in the field containing the URL may be edited.
Upload
Changed bookmarks will be uploaded automatically on program exit. However, you may save your data manually at any time by uploading them over the active connection.
Click on the symbol Upload in the toolbar.
During the transport a "Wait" dialog appears on the screen. If the connection hangs, e.g. because the server is down, click on "Cancel" to make the dialog disappear. Keep in mind, however, that this may corrupt the remote file. To be on the safe side, upload the local copy to the server when the connection is OK again.
If no active connection, but a local file is defined, "upload" will store the data in the local file.
Download
At startup bookmarks will be downloaded automatically from the active connection. During the jBoom session you may download bookmarks at any time from any connection:
Click on the symbol Download in the toolbar.
A popup menu appears, containing the names of all defined connections and an additional entry "local" for the local file. Click on an entry to start the transmission. The downloaded entries are merged into the existing tree, following these rules:
  • If a bookmark with the same name exists at the same position in the tree, its URL and comment will be replaced.
  • If a folder with the same name exists, it will be entered.
  • In all remaining cases the entry will be added to the tree.

If you download a bookmark set from a different source than the actual one, it will become a folder right below the root whose name is taken from the remote source's root folder. After downloading, the additional entries are part of your bookmark set. Changes on the server they came from won't affect your date. To adopt those changes, simply download the data again.

An explicit download may also be appropriate if you have involuntarily deleted several entries. Load the remote file or the local copy again to restore the deleted data. Note, however, that this will also undo any other changes you have made.

To replace the current data set by a different one, first empty it by cutting the root (see Editing entries).

Root visibility
Normally the root of the tree is shown at the top. As this isn't too interesting, it can be switched off in order to save space:
Click on the symbol Root, to make the root visible or invisible.
As a side effect all expanded branches in the tree get collapsed. So, if you click on the symbol twice, the root visibility is the same as before, but all folders are closed.
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