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Inquisitor Setup

Mail, HTTP-Scanner, and IRC-Client have no Setup-Functions for now (maybe in a future version of Inquisitor). Mail and IRC-Client are NOT implemented yet. That means that these modules (Modes) won't work, for now !

1. File/Image Download:
-Don't below = if a (damaged) File is only downloaded BELOW this value, it will NOT saved in Destination-Directory (indicated by a red border around thumb)
-Mark above = draw green Border around Thumb, if File is downloaded more than this Value. Otherwise mark file as damaged by an orange Border (Drawing borders around thumbs could be disabled by: Options > Images > Mark Image)
-Cut dest. Filename = if a (downloaded) Filename is very long (a.e.: "thisisaverylongimagefilename.jpg"), it could be "shorted" to 8.3 Charcters (each File will get a unique Timestamp instead of its real filename. If a File already exists in DestinationDirectory, a unique Timestamp will apended to its real name).
-Cut only FileType = only "shorten" the name of downloaded files of this type. A.e. if switched to: "JPG" ONLY ".JPG"-files will cutted, but not any ".MPG".
-Convert ImageType = while download a "JPG"-Image, it could be converted to "PNG", "BMP", "GIF" (or any other supported Image Format).
-Don't Display unknown Files = Some Sites uses Images which are defect. This prevents FIQ to Crash if it try to Display such Images. Could apper most on GIF-Animations, which are very small. When a Site uses such defect GIF-File FIQ might crash, but with this Option it will test the Image before it is displayed.
-Don't Download Images below = This is used for "Inline"-Images. It's hard do describe, but i will try:
You have a Site with some Thumbs. But the Links "behind" the Thumbs will not point directly to an Image-File, such as ".JPG". Such Links will open another HTML-Document, which contains the desired Image. But these HTML-Documents can also contain MORE than one Image !
How should Inquisitor know which Image is the right, if you only select a Thumbnail ?
So FIQ uses a technique to "guess" the right image from within the HTML-Document:
1st it try to get an ImageFile which is spelled "LIKE" the Thumbnail-File, then it try to found a unique counter in between the Image and the thumb. If this fails FIQ try to sort the contained Image-files by their Filesize, where no ImageFiles will touched, when smaller than this Value. In other Words:
If an HTML-Document (which contains the desired Image) have also Images were their Filesizes are smaller than this Value, these Images can't be the desired (selected) Images (thumbs), and such Images will NOT copied to destination. Most Images have Filesizes around between 28000 and 38000 bytes.

2. Inquisitor Language:
Choose between German, and English Version of Inquisitor (needs restart after changing !).

3. "FICS" (TM) Level:
Well, this is a very cool Function, called "Frenzys Intelligent Caching System"; short: "FICS" (TM).
To Understand this Value you have to know how Inquisitor works:
If you enter an URL, FIQ will try to look first in its cache BEFORE going Online (like any other Offline-Browser).
This Value indicates how "strong" Inquisitor will try to find required Files in its (own) cache.
Example:
The Site: "www.something.com/index.html" contains an Image called: "CommercialBanner.GIF". FIQ will save this File in its cache. Now you click on a link called: "www.something.com/users/index.html". This Document also contains an Image called: "CommercialBanner.GIF". With "FICS" (TM) enabled, FIQ will NOT download the next (2nd) "CommercialBanner.GIF", cause it COULD BE the same as before. This will speed up displaying HTML-Pages, cause FIQ must only download such images which are NOT in its cache. But be careful: more stronger Values might display totaly wrong (or other) images !

4. Cache Options:
-Faster cleaning = will speed up Cache cleaning when leaving FIQ, but might took some milliseconds longer to display a HTML-Page.
-AutoClean = if the Cache is bigger than this value, it will cleared when leaving FIQ, so that the Cache uses only the specified Size on your HardDisk.
FIQ will cache EACH File on Your HardDisk; even such files which will downloaded to the specified Destination Directory, cause FIQ is also an offline Browser and will cache EVERY File !
-CleanNow = Run CacheCleaning manually (the same when leaving FIQ).
-Delete cache = Deletes the whole (!) Cache Directory.
-Change Cache Location = With this Option you can move Inquisitor's Cache-Directory to another location/Drive. Useful if the installation-Directory of Inquisitor (mostly: "C:\Inquisitor\cache\") has not much space, or the Offline-Cache should be used by different PCs in a Network.

5. HTTP-Options:
-Sync. Requests
= this Value is used by the new "Synchronous-Mode", which means the Inquisitor send it's request in parallel. A Value of "32" (=normal) indicates that FIQ may reqest (and Download) up to 32 Files at the same time. This Value could be set from 0 (=Off) up to 98 parallel Downloads/requests.
-Connection Timeout = this Value indicates the Time in Milliseconds, when a Request will timeout. You SHOULD Increase this Value if you encounter problems when download very large Files with more than > 3MB. FIQ will Cancel each Download, if the Timeout is reached !
That means: if you donwload a large Video-File, FIQ COULD (!) cancel the active (!) Download, even if the Server sends its response !
In this case you have to turn HTMLTimeout off (Value = 0), or a much, much higher Value. But if you turned Timeout off, FIQ may hang, if a WebSite can't be reached (a.e. Server down). In this case FIQ will wait forever for a Server response (except, if you press the "STOP"-Button)...
-Data Blocksize = how many bytes should transferred in one Step. Might vary on Linux/Windows Systems. It's Save to leave this Value on its default.
-Max. Hops = how deep should FIQ go, to download a File. Example:
The Site: "www.something.com" contains an Image from: "www.somewhat.com", but the request will redirected to: "www.somehow.com" (which FIQ will follow, if InfiltratorMode is turned off). But this will also redirected to another site like: "www.somesite.com", and so on. With this Value, FIQ will only allow redirections up to max. Hops. If switched to 3, FIQ will go 3 Hops further to get an Image or an HTML-Document; if there is another redirection, FIQ will NOT follow it anymore, if max. Hops reached (will ONLY work, if InfiltratorMode is OFF !).

6. HTTP ProxyServer:
-If you use a "ProxyServer", you can Enter it's Name/IP and PortAdress here (not tested yet; I don't know if this work !)

7. TrafficMonitor:
-Max. Traffic = If you have a DialUp-Connection to the Internet, you can watch how many bytes you have downloaded with FIQ. This Value indicates the maximum before you get a Warning messages. FIQ will count each byte it has downloaded. If the counter is bigger than this Value, you will get a Warning Message (if NOT turned OFF, under: Options > Inquisitor Options > Other Safety confirmations, otherwise only StatusBar will be red, if max. Traffic reached).
-Reset byteCounter = This resets the actual ByteCounter to 0 (done automatically, if the 1st of each Month is reached).

8. Cookie-Options:
-Write Cookies = allow FIQ to write each Cookie to your HardDisk (otherwise only RAM-Memory will used to store Cookies).
-Delete Cookies = Delete ALL written Cookies from your HardDisk (the same, as if you delete all Files unter: "../Inquisitor/cache/cookies/"-Directory).

9. Icon-Options:
-Show LinkType Icons = Show mini Icons in top, left Corner of each Image, to indicate which FileType is behind a Link (could also turned off by LeftClick on LinkType-Icon in ToolPanel).
-Create standard FavIcon = If a Site has no FavIcon for the FIQ-Bookmarks, let FIQ write it's own FavIcon. Needs even more HardDisk-Space to store FavIcons from all visited sites, but will also prevent FIQ from going online, if it has no FavIcon in its cache.
-Get FavIcon = should FIQ try to get a FavIcon used for Bookmarks. If turned to "0", FIQ will NOT download any FavIcons; "1" means to get a FavIcon, BEFORE the HTML-Document is requested, a "2" means to get the FavIcon AFTER the HTML-Document is requested. FIQ will go Online, even if a Site is still in cache, but without any FavIcon...

10. Display-Options:
-Update while render Image = if FIQ gets an Image to display the actual HTML-Page, it will copy it directly to the displayed Page. Otherwise it will download each Image, and THEN display the HTML-Page. Most other Browsers do so too; so it's save to leave this option turned on. FIQ is only some microseconds faster if turned off (it's an old Option which make no sense anymore).
-Animation Delay = an Animation is a series of single Pictures. this Value indicates, the Time in between to display each Picture. Each Animation (also TUX* in the top right corner of FIQ, and any GIF-Animation, if turned Animations on) uses this Value.

-Change Color = Let you change all colors used by Inquisitor.
Simply LeftClick on the desired color, and change it's Value by the RGB-Sliders. Press OK after done, or Cancel to restore previous Colors, or Reset to restore Default. The "Mixer" on top, right corner shows the resulting Color.

Some Words to Color handling:
Normally FIQ stores the colors in its FIQ.CFG File, but this can overwritten by a so called "Skin-File". A "Skin" is a File, which contains a Texture Image used for Menu/Tool Panels, AND also the Color Information. A "Skin" could be Loaded either by: Setup > Load Skin, or Menu: File > Load FIQ Configuration. To create your own Skin-File, simply load a Texture Image (a.e. a JPG-File with dimensions of min. 40x40 Pixels), and change the Colors to your desire. After that, choose: File > Save Configuration, and Select "SKN = SkinFile"; Enter a FileName, and Save your own SkinFile.
When Loading Skins, or changing Colors, FIQ should allways be restarted so that all changes take effect. To Unload a previous loaded SkinFile, simply Choose no File (or Cancel) under:
"Load Skin" (10).

Examples of some SkinFiles (all shown Examples are included in "../Inquisitor/skins/"-Directory):

Top/left = Girafrica.SKN
Bottom/left = Iquinature.SKN
Top/right = Incowsitor.SKN
(You can't change the completly GUI (GraphicalUserInterface), but it looks right pretty...)

* = "TUX" is the name of little penguin in the top, right corner of FIQ (for Windows Users, which may not know the famous Linux-Logo...).

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