BackStreet Browser - A high-speed, multi-threading website download and viewing program.

Help Section

Overview | Interface and Control | Main Menu | Main Toolbar | Status Bar | Project/folders tree context menu | File list context menu | Getting Started | Creating a New Project | Project Properties | Project Properties Load | Project Properties Load Example | Project Properties FileFilter | Project Properties URL Filter | Project Properties URL Filter Example | Project Properties Connection | Starting and Resuming Download | Interrupting Download | Saving and Copying Project | Project Properties Others | Other Capabilities | Working with Workspaces | Search By Keywords Config File | Search By Keywords | Web Directories Configuration File | Working with Web Directories | Setting Up RAS Connection | Batch Processing: Working with URL Lists | Using Regular Expressions | FAQ

Main menu

In this section we have described for you all items and sub-items of the BackStreet Browser main menu.

Menu item File:

• Use the sub-item "New" to create a new BackStreet Browser project.
• Use the sub-item "Copy to..." to copy the selected project to a new location on your hard drive.
• Use the sub-item "Import URLs" to import a text file containing URLs list (one URL per line). A separate project will be created for each URL in the current workspace.
• Use the sub-items "Load workspace", "Save workspace", "Clear workspace" and "Clear workspace and files" to operate the current BackStreet Browser workspace.
• Use the sub-item "Web directory download" to setup and start downloading target sites listed in a web directory.
• Use the sub-item "Web search" to setup and start searching by a keyword using major search engines.
• Use the sub-item "RAS connection" to setup a RAS connection for download.
• Use the sub-item/option "Minimize to system tray" to if the application should be represented with an icon in the system tray when minimized.
• Use the sub-items "Page setup", "Print preview" and "Print" to print the current web page that is shown in the embedded MS Internet Explorer panel.
• Use the sub-item Exit to quit the BackStreet Browser application.

Menu item Edit:

• Use the sub-item "Cut" and "Copy" to cut or copy the selected file.
• Use the sub-item "Delete file" to delete the selected file. At that the file will physically remain on the hard drive.
• Use the sub-item "Delete project" to delete the selected project. At that the files of the project will physically remain on the hard drive. Please note that BackStreet Browser will remove not only the selected branch in the projects/folders tree but the whole project to which the branch belongs.
• Use the sub-item "Delete project and files" to delete the selected project. Attention! At that the files of the project will be physically removed from the hard drive. Please also note that BackStreet Browser will remove not only the selected branch in the projects/folders tree but the whole project to which the branch belongs.
• Use the sub-item "Find" to call a Find file dialog to search files on your hard drive. The dialog will provide you with powerful search capabilities including search by contained text; creation/modification date and time; file size; file attributes; etc. The search can also operate Include and Exclude file lists to define the search scope.

Menu item Project:

• Use the sub-item "Start download" to start the download process for the project whose branch is selected in the projects/folders tree.
• Use the sub-item "Stop download" to stop the download process for the project whose branch is selected in the projects/folders tree.
• Use the sub-item "Update files" to re-download expired files of the the project whose branch is selected in the projects/folders tree.
• Use the sub-item "Resume all projects" to start download processes for all projects of the workspace.
• Use the sub-item "Stop all projects" to stop download processes for all projects of the workspace.
• Use the sub-item "Clear database" to remove all files of the project but keep the project itself. At that the files of the project will physically remain on the hard drive.
• Use the sub-item "Relink all files" to update links in the project downloaded files according to the project current load properties. This is very useful if after the download has completed you decided to change all or some original links for local ones (e. g. during the download you used the option "Do not relink local files" but now you decided to change it for "Relink ONLY loaded files" or "Relink ALL files"). Note that if the project load properties still say "Do not relink local files", this menu sub-item will do nothing.
• Use the sub-item "Project properties" to call the project properties dialog for the selected project.
• Use the sub-item "New project defaults" to setup defaults which will be used for all newly created projects. The dialog similar to usual project properties dialog will appear for this purpose.

Menu item View:

• Use the sub-items "Toolbars", "Status bar" and "Navigate bar" to select the application toolbars you need to have at hand.
• Use the sub-items "List view" and "Details view" to setup the files list representation.
• Use the sub-item "Show URL instead of title" to show project URLs instead of project titles in the projects/folders tree.
• Use the sub-items "Log window", "Download statistics" and "IE panel" to show and hide additional BackStreet Browser panels representing download results and statistics.