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eFtp Tutorial
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Online Help
eFtp Client Tutorial
Connection Wizard
Main Window
Proxy
Local Explorer
Favorites
Open Browser
Search Wizard
Remote Explorer (FTP Client)
Favorites
Scheduler
Schedule Wizard
View Scheduled Tasks
Editor
Opening the Editor
Connecting to the Remote Filesystem
Code Browser
Running Programs
Connection Wizard
You can make a connection by clikcing on the Connect button located on the leftmost upper side of the explorer window. You can also
use the menu (Connect --> Connect) to open the Connection Wizard.
Connection Wizard has the following sub components:
Main Window
It is the place where you set the server name, user, password, port and time out. Port is by default set to 21 which is the default FTP port, and the
timeout is by default set to 25 or 35. You can change these according to your specification if necessary.
Proxy
eFtp Client supports SOCKS 5 proxy servers. You can simply select the proxy radio button and then set the server name and
port number. If your proxy server requires a user name and password , populate the user name and password field, otherwise these fields will be ignored if empty.
Please note: Setting the proxy directs all the communications for all the connections through the specified proxy server.
Local Explorer
Local Explorer allows you to brows your local file system. It has a standard explorer like view and allow you to view/modify/run/play/create/zip/unzip files and directories.
It supporst decompressions of ZIP , GZIP and JAR files. The Unzip utility is built in eFtp Client and it does not use external software for
compression or decompression of files.
Local Explorer can be viewed in two different modes, List and Details View. List view shows large icons for the files and directories and will not show the details of the files.
Details view shows small icons and will show details of the files and directoris (name, type, last modified, size).
You can use Drag and Drop to copy files from one location to another. Or simply use the popup menu provided in the list or detailed view to select/copy and then paste the
selected files to another location.
Favorite Directories
You can use the Add Current Directory to Favorites button to add the currently viewing directory to the favorite lists. Later on you can simply use the favorite lists to
navigate between the directories. It makes it simpler to jump into one location because you do not have to navigate your way to the desired location and simply by selecting the directory from the
favorite list, jump to its location.
Open Browser
You can launch the default browser by clicing on Launch Browser button on the top tool bar of the Local Explorer.
Search Wizard
Search Wizard is a tool to allow you search your local computer for files or words within files. It furthermore allows you to open the files
in eEditor by double clicking on the search results.
Search Wizard is fast and unlike your operating system search wizard will not slow down your computer. It will run on a low priority thread and therefore
will not halt any other application activity. It has all the standard features to narrow down the search based on file type, search directories and subdirectories.
To open the Search Wizard click on the Search icon on the Local Explorer tool bar (the magnifier icon).
Remote Explorer
Remote Explorer allows you to brows your remote file system. When you make a connection from the eFtp Client main window, after the connection
is made, the window is split to two sections, on the left side Local Explorer and on the right side Remote Explorer.
It has a standard explorer like view and allow you to view/modify/play/create/zip/unzip/edit files and directories.
It supporst decompressions of ZIP , GZIP and JAR files. The Unzip utility is built in eFtp Client and it does not use external software for
compression or decompression of files.
Remote Explorer can be viewed in two different modes, List and Details View. List view shows large icons for the files and directories and will not show the details of the files.
Details view shows small icons and will show details of the files and directoris (name, type, last modified, size, properties).
You can use Drag and Drop to copy files from one location to another. Or simply use the popup menu provided in the list or detailed view to select/copy and then paste the
selected files to another location.
Favorite Directories
You can use the Add Current Directory to Favorites button to add the currently viewing directory to the favorite lists. Later on you can simply use the favorite lists to
navigate between the directories. It makes it simpler to jump into one location because you do not have to navigate your way to the desired location and simply by selecting the directory from the
favorite list, jump to its location.
Schedule Wizard
Schedule Wizard allows you to schedule a task to run at a specified time or if configured in intervals. The connection wizard will allow you
select from the following options:
Run the task only once.
Repeate the task.
Repeate configuration for days of weeks.
Repeate configuration for intervals for example every 2 days, or every day or every 7 days, etc.
Specify a start date for the repeating tasks as well as an end date
You can select a file transfer or a program to run on your computer. You can also select a combination of the two to run on your computer.
View Scheduled Tasks
You can view the scheduled tasks by clicking on the View Schedule Log button of the Local Explorer (the calendar icon). You will also have
the option of cancelling the scheduled tasks if necessary.
Editor
How to open the Editor
Editor supports the following programming modes for syntax highlighting:
Java, C, C++, PHP, Perl, Shell Scripts, SQL, HTML, Javascript and Assembly.
If you double click on the name of any file with those extensions, the Ecode Editor will open the file. You can also open the editor by selecting
a file and righ click and from the popup menu select Open or you can use the menu to open the Editor(File --> Open Editor). You can
also open the editor from the Shell Window menu bar (Edit --> Open Editor).
Connecting to a remote server
You can use the Connect button on the editor toolbar to open the Connection Wizard. Once you make the connection using the wizard, the remote view on
the left side of the editor will be populated by the remote filesystem. Once you connected to the remote server you can navigate through the remote
file system by double clicking on the directories or using One Level Up button. If you double click on any file in the remote view, the file will open in the Editor.
Opening the Code Browser
If you have an open file of the type that has a structured code including:
Java , C , C++ , PHP , Perl , Javascript , Shell Scripts
You can view the code structure by clicking on the Code Browser button in the editor toolbar.
Running a Program
In order to run a program, if the program is a Java file, all you need to do is to click on the Compile or Run button. If another
file type, then you can configure the comile and run commands for the program by clicking on Configure Run and Compile commands.
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