Nav.Net Basics

Welcome to the first Nav.Net tutorial. I’ll show you the basics and main searching features of Nav.Net. Here we go…

When you run Nav.Net, main window will appear like this.

We’ll analyse the main window in four parts. Header, Toolbar, Browser and Footer.

Header:

There are 5 main sections of Nav.Net.

• The Browser is the internal Web Browser. This is the default page when Nav.Net starts. You can browse for regular internet pages but the main use of the browser is displaying galleries generated by Nav.Net.
• Search is used for searching for content and viewing the search results.
• Fusker Generator is a handy tool for blind searching fuskers.
• Downloads shows the download progress if you start a download job.
  Settings will display some settings of Nav.Net.

Toolbar:

Toolbar contains some commands needed for browsing web pages.

• First four buttons are the classic back, forward, stop and refresh buttons like any webbrowser has.
• The star icon will display the favorites panel.
• The world icon will download images or movies from the active browser window. It is only useful if you display a gallery
  
• The binocular icon will search for image galleries if you currently displaying a webpage that contains TGP links.
• The adress box is the place where you can type any URL and display it. When displaying an autogenerated page this box will display the local autogenerated filename of the gallery. Nav.Net will automatically delete autogenerated files when you close Nav.Net.
• The last tree icons are the tablist icon, add tab icon and remove tab icon. You can use them to open new browser tabs and close the active tab. The list icon will display the list of open tabs.

We’ll discuss download and search commands later.

Browser:

This is the browser part of the page. Galleries or webpages will displayed as a tab at the top. This screenshot shows Nav.Net displays a search result. You can supply a rating for the autogenerated gallery with the yellow rating panel under the gallery. When you rate a gallery Nav.Net will automatically add the rated gallery to the shared database. You can display the rated galleries by clicking the TOP100 icon located in the search page.

Footer:

This is the footer toolbar of browser page. We’ll deeply discuss footer later.

How to Search?

When you click to the “Search” button on the header, the search section comes.

This is the main search window. The most important part of this window is the search panel.

You can select the search type from the search category group. Categories needed to choose what Nav.Net will search for. These categories are dynamic so they might be different from the version you have. Some categories needs a keyword. You can type it to the editbox in the “Search For” group. After typing the keyword press enter or click to the [>] button to start the search.When Nav.Net searches for something you can start a new search with another keyword or the same keyword from another category.When Nav.Net finds something from the search, your keyword will appear under the Active Searches node of the results tress. You can display the results by clicking the keyword or display all valid results by clicking the Active Searches node. By clicking the All results node you can display all results containing the invalid ones. The invalid results are needed for testing. Now let’s search.

Click on the “Image Search” category, type “Christina Aguilera” to keyword box and click to the [>] button (or press enter).

After a small searching job Nav.Net will start to display each result with a thumbnail one by one. The thumbnail label shows the count of images in the result. The blue label means Nav.Net found thumbnails and will generate a thumbnailed gallery. The green label means no thumbnails available/found. Gray label means there is only a single image. Nav.Net will display the search progress in footer progress panel.While Nav.Net searches for “Christina Aguilera” you can start another search. Type “Monica Bellucci” to the searchbox and press Enter.

Both searches will continue to work together. Monica Bellucci keyword added to Active Searches tree. You can click to the keywords to see related results. To see all valid results click “Active Searches” node. Click “All Results” node to see all results including the invalid ones. This is needed for testing purposes.

You can search for more results by clicking to the [>] multiple times. A popup menu will appear for your second click.

DoubleClick to a result to see the gallery.

Nav.Net automatically switched to the browser view and displayed the generated the gallery page. Click on a thumbnail too see the large image.

The large image comes. You can return to the thumbnail page by clicking the back button. The back and forward button at the header toolbar works like every webbrowser application. Now time to look deeper to the footer toolbar.

The first two commands will display the next or previous large image. The up button will take you back to the thumbnail page. If you click to the blue window icon while displaying the thumbnail page, all large images will be displayed at once. If the large image is larger than the window boundaries it will be automatically shrinked. You can disable or enable this feature from the card button. The editbox will display the special gallery definition url (GDU). GDU is a special format used by Nav.Net like fusker url’s. Nav.Net generates galleries from this information. I’ll tell more about it at the end of this chapter. The last tree buttons are used for fuskering images. While displaying an image if you click the arrows, Nav.Net will display next or previous 100 images based on filenumber of the image. More information can be found at the fuskering chapter.

You can switch to the search view to open more galleries. Every gallery will be opened in a seperate browser tab.

This is the search toolbar. These commands are about search results.

• “Sort Results” command sorts the results by image count.
• “Clear Results” clear all results.
• View style shows a popup menu to change the result list presentation. There are 2 choices. “List” choice shows the result as a list. Lists contains more information about the search result. The second choice is “Thumbnail”. This is the default choice. Nav.Net shows the results as thumbnails.
• Thumbnail size can be used to change the size of the thumbnails. If you choose big sizes for thumbnails, some thumbnails may have low quality. This is a memory optimization issue.
• Top100 command will show you the image galleries rated by other Nav.Net users.