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File menu

File menu contains items allowing you to create a new presentation for Web Screen Saver, to open an existing presentation or to save the current one. Also, you can quit Web Screen Saver with that menu.

Here are the available commands:

New	Creates a new Web Screen Saver file.
Open file...	Opens an existing Web Screen Saver file located on a local or network hard drive.
Open from the Web...	Opens an existing Web Screen Saver file using HTTP.
Save	Saves to an existing Web Screen Saver file on a local or network drive.
Save As...	Saves to a new Web Screen Saver file on a local or network drive.
Location of .WSS Configuration files...	Defines location for .WSS Configuration files, whether they are created locally or downloaded.
Recent files	Contains up to ten files recently opened by the current user.
Quit	Quits Web Screen Saver.

A file created with the "File New" command is named "noname.wss" and is located in the "My Documents" directory.

When you use the "File Open" command, the common Windows dialog box is displayed. You can then select the right directory and the file you want to open:

This dialog box is also used with the "File Save As..." command. In this case, you can select a different directory and/or a different file name for the file in use by Web Screen Saver. The current file will be saved to a directory/file name given in this dialog box.

The "File Save" command stores all properties included in the Configuration dialog box to the current WSS file. Most of the properties are stored in the current WSS file. However, some of them are stored in Windows registry (windows layout, screen save parameters, reboot options or registration information).

When you click the "OK" button, the current file is saved using the "File Save" command.

When a file is read from the web, it is read-only, so the "File Save" command is grayed. In this case, the "OK" button and the "File Save" command are quite different because all the parameters located in Windows registry are updated, but the current file is not saved. If you want to save your changes on a read-only file, you should use the "File Save As..." command.

The "File Open from the Web..." command opens a dialog box in which you can type the location of the file. This location should be typed as a basic URL. For instance:

http://www.web-screen-saver.com/samples/bbcnews.wss

Storing a .WSS file on a web server is useful to share the same .WSS configuration file with several users. When the file is updated on the web server, it is automatically retrieved and used.

A file open using HTTP is read-only, so it is possible to edit its properties but the file should be saved to a local drive using the "File Save As..." command.

The "File Location of .WSS Configuration files..." command is useful to define the local path where the .WSS Configuration files should be stored whether they are created locally or downloaded from a server.

The default path for these files is the "My Documents" folder in the current user's profile.

If you select the "Path" option, you can enter any local path in the entry box displayed next to this option.

However, take care when you set a path here. The path entried should be always readable when Web Screen Saver is launched. Therefore you should avoid to use a network path either by a network drive (x:) or a UNC path (\\server\path). If you set here a network path that cannot be reached when Web Screen Saver is launched, the software will instead use the default .WSS Configuration file displaying Web Screen Saver pages.

You can roll back to the default path by clicking on the "Use default" button.

If you update the WSS path, you should also use the "Test path" button to be sure that the current user has a write access to the given path.

The "File Quit" command quits Web Screen Saver. Be careful with this command, because the software terminates without saving anything to the current file and without warning. This command is the equivalent to the "Quit" button located on Web Screen Saver tool bars.