Results Window

The results window presents the results generated by tasks. For search results, the special search results window is available since it provides some special functions related to the hit list. A wide variety of task results exist. The figure for example shows some digest checking results generated by the check window. The checking results are divided into two tabs Files and File Digests. The results for checked URLs are presented slightly different with the two tabs URLs and URL Digests.

The File Digests tab shows the calculated digests and the status for the particular examinee file, the Files tab shows an overview of the processed digest files. These tabs are also created by the generate window after generating digests/signatures.

The results window is structured with tabs with each tab assigned to a task operation. This way, virtually any number of operations can be displayed here without the need for multiple result windows. The icon with the red X can be used to close a single result tab. Result tabs are rejected when the program is closed and cannot be restored.

Tab Files

The right tool bar on the Files tab contains various functions to control the display of the result 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. Digest files may have been ignored, if for example a regular expression has been specified for the check window. Such files may be shown or hidden here, please click on the icon with the stop symbol (Ignored Digest Files).

The icon with the red X (Delete Digest File) can be used to delete the selected files. The button with the green arrow (Show Digest File) shows the selected entry in the file system window. This symbol varies a little if the operation 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 results window are also provided by the context menus which you can activate with the right mouse button on the entries of the list.

Tab File Digests

The right tool bar on the File Digests tab contains various functions to control the display of the result list (see illustration). 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. Target files may have been ignored, if for example a regular expression has been specified for the check window. Such files may be shown or hidden here, please click on the icon with the stop symbol (Ignored Target Files).

Here, you may save the generated digests and signatures into Digester XML files also when the calculations have already been completed. Please select the desired digests on the tab and click the icon with the diskette symbol (Save Digester XML). A dialog appears which prompts you to choose a target file for saving. The original file references will be automatically stored correctly within the Digester XML files. This functionality may be also called if digests have been calculated for whole drives or file system trees which shall be stored into one single file (e.g. for backups).

You can click the clipboard icon (Copy to Clipboard) to load a selected digest value into the operating system clipboard to be shared with other applications. The next button with the flag (Compare Digest) opens a dialog where you can compare the selected digest directly with a typed value which may also be inserted from the clipboard. The button with the green arrow (Show Target File) shows the selected target file in the file system window. This symbol varies a little if the operation has been started from the network file system window.

As an alternative to the buttons also the results window provides the corresponding functions within the context menu (right mouse button) on a selected message digest.

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