Search Results Window

After the search has been initiated from the search window and the results are available, these are listed by the search results window (see illustration). Here all hits are listed while the list is sorted alphabetically by default. You can select the hit list entries as in the file system window and also activate the context menu (right mouse button). This menu usually provides all features of the file system window. The details for the current selection such as the selection type (file or directory) as well as the full path and the selection size (in bytes) is displayed by the status bar at the bottom of the docking window.

The search results window is structured with tabs with each tab assigned to a search operation. This way, virtually any number of operations can be displayed here without the need for multiple result windows. The buttons on the left side allow to automatically show/hide the window like the search window (magic wand symbol). The icon with the empty window can be used to close all displayed result tabs. This function is useful if you like to remove all search results with one single click. If the docking window is configured to be Automatic then the docking window is also automatically hidden.

The right tool bar contains various functions to control the display of the hit list. With the AZ icon (Sorting) you can either sort the list alphabetically (default) or show the items in the order that the files have been found.

The button with the play icon (Open) lets the program or operating system open this entry. This function is only available for files, this button is deactivated for directories. A click on this icon starts the standard programs associated with the selected file extension or one of the integrated editors. Please note, however, that this is strongly dependent on the operating system and there may be no response at all. This is also true for the next button with the editor icon (Edit) which can be used to let the program or operating system start the standard editor for the selected file. Under Windows operating systems for example the program WordPad is opened if this is the default editor for the selected file.

The Battery Manager software supports opening and editing some specific file types (e.g. .jpg, .png, .gif and .xml).  Such files may be directly displayed by the document window. For all other file types the action is delegated to the underlying operating system. For the file types supported by Battery Manager you have the choice to open the files either by the application or the operating system (see preferences in section "Main Menu and Components"). The next button with the dots and strokes (Hexedit) opens a file with the integrated hex editor of the Battery Manager software. This function may be called for any file as long as the program is able to access it.

The icon with the red X (Delete) can be used to delete the selected files and directories including subdirectories. A click on the icon with the pen (Rename) allows you to rename the selected entry which may be both files or directories. Similar to the creation of a directory, a special dialog is displayed that prompts you to enter the new name. The button with the green arrow (Show Entry) shows the selected hit list entry in the file system window. This symbol varies a little if the search has been started from the network file system window.

Directories and files deleted with the delete function cannot be restored programmatically, so please backup your data first. Before entries are deleted a security dialog is displayed which draws attention to this fact and where the user explicitly has to confirm the deletion.

As an alternative to the buttons, the corresponding functions for the search results window are also provided by the context menus which you can activate with the right mouse button on the entries of the hit list. The context menu items are almost identical to the items provided by the file system window extended by special items such as Show Entry.

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