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The output area (right side)

You can only save when something is loaded into the input area. The color of the input area shows if it is loaded and the [? snips + ? bytes] button at the bottom will inform you more exactly what is in it.

All these output buttons will empty the input area. The input area will change its color to red, to indicate that, before putting out something again, it has to be loaded first.

There are different channels for saving. However, the most important is [Save =>] and that's why it has a slightly bigger button.

[Save =>]
pops up a hierarchical menu with which you can navigate quickly to a subdirectory of your home data directory. To choose a final destination directory click on the top entry of a menu. You will be prompted to enter a filename under which your text will be saved. Alternatively you first can create a subdirectory in the chosen directory, or start the file manager on that directory. You don't have to worry about duplicate filenames. ClipCollect will automatically append a number to it if there is already a file with that name. All files will be saved with a .txt extension.

Important: The topmost entry of each menu is the same directory as the one left to it, from where you came. So the topmost entry is always the parent directory and the items below are all subdirectories in that parent directory.

At the beginning you will only see "<top> Data" and that is the only entry you can click. Yes, your data directory is empty! You must create some subdirectories first. But please read on before doing so.

[Cut]
puts your text into the Windows Clipboard. If you then click on [=> paste] the complete text is in the formatting zone again.

[Log file]
silently appends your text to a log-file with the name LogFile.log in the Data directory.

[Log win]
opens an editor. Text moved to this editor has nothing to do anymore with the input area. The Log Window serves as a separate buffer: You can accumulate texts in it, copy and paste into or from it and save its contents to a file. [Log win] silently logs to a file with the name LogWindow.log in the Data directory.

[Any file]
prompts you with a file dialog, so that you can save your text to an arbitrary file.

[Notepad]
starts an external editor with your text.

The last button is for publishing and is isolated from input and output.

[Export]
Exports your database as a HTML structure, which you can e.g. upload to a webspace provider. It can generate a complete website, or you can add this automatically generated part to your hand made site. Pressing this button will export part or all of your database or any other directory of your file system with all its contents. This operation will neither change the state and text of the input area, nor does it depend on it. You can click [Export] whenever you want!

Try it! The generator will present two simple dialog boxes with some self explanatory options. Your auto-generated website is only 3 mouse clicks away! The outcome will look like the software database Downloadia or that spacy demonstration or The market: a mind to matter converter. If you would like to tweak your website, look here for further information about exporting.