Menus

Menu Bar

File	Edit	Sort	View	Tools	Toys	UI	Help

File

Open View	Sets the directory whose pictures will be shown for you to scroll through.
Recent Views	Directories you recently viewed, available for quick access.
Open Tree	Selects the directory for the root directory on the Tree.
Recent Trees	Tree selections you recently viewed, available for quick access.
Edit Picture	Gives you a choice of editing current picture either in your native picture editor or ImageJ an open source editor from National Institutes of Health which is included with JIBS. ImageJ
Move	Bring up submenu letting you move the current picture to trash, park, repeat or move to directory list. The move to directory list brings up a list of recent directories you moved files to in case you need to repeate a recent move.
Empty Trash	Removes all files in the Trash directory you set in Settings. These will not go into the operating systems trash can - they will no longer be on your computer once the trash is emptied.
Contact Sheet	Save thumbnails to print or distribute as jpegs.
Save	Save any changes made to the currently shown picture.
Save As	Saves the currently shown picture and any changes to a new name.
Rename	Brings up the Change File Name for the current image as if you had right clicked on a file in the file list.
Exit	Exits JIBS.

Edit

Undo	Undoes moves. If you change the directory you are viewing, undo is cleared.
Redo	Undoes Undo.
Copy	Copies the picture to the operating systems' clipboard so that you could paste it into another application.
Select All	Selects all the items in the List on the left-hand side of the screen.
Clear All	Clears the current selection.
RotateLeft, Rotate Right	Rotates the picture ±90° and activates the Save button. You need to hit the Save button if you want to save the rotated picture. If auto-resize is in effect (the background is red), the image will be saved at its actual original size, not the displayed size. Remember, if the background is black, the display size and the actual size are the same.

Sort

Menu Item	Explanation	Sample
Sort by Name - Natural	Name sort, not case sensitive. Sorts numbers as a human would expect. Similar to file management systems like Windows Exprloer.	a1.jpg a2.jpg a11.jpg able.jpg AbleBaker.jpg
Sort by Name - Not Case Sensitive	Name sort, not case sensitive. Numbers sorted by each digit instead of whole number.	a1.jpg a11.jpg a2.jpg able.jpg AbleBaker.jpg
Sort by Name - Case Sensitive	Name sort, case sensitive. Numbers sorted by each digit instead of whole number.	AbleBaker.jpg a1.jpg a11.jpg a2.jpg able.jpg
Sort by Date	Sort by date file was last saved. Sorts from earliest at top to latest at bottom.
Sort by Length	Sort by length of file from smallest at top to largest at bottom.
No Sort	Whatever order files are returned from file system.

View

Reload	Causes the currently displayed directory to be reloaded from disk. Usefull when you have modified the directory contents outside of JIBS.
Prior	Similar to Back in a browser. If you have selected more than one directory from the Tree, this will take you back to the last directory you looked at. Most useful for previewing a directory to see if it is the one you want to move the picture to
Next	Similar to Forward in a browser. If you used Prior Directory, this will take you forward to the directory you were looking at when you hit back. Most useful for previewing a directory to see if it is the one you want to move the picture to.
Full Screen	Show the application full screen. Once in full screen mode, pressing the escape key will bring JIBS back to it regular size. Right click will bring up EXIF information.
Slide Show - Main Screen	Same a Full Screen except the pictures will advance automatically. Rate of advance can be changed in the settings.
Full Screen, Other Screen	Same as Full Screen, but on the other screen. Obviously you need two monitors for this to work.
Slide Show - Secondary Screen	Same as Full Screen, but on the other screen. Obviously you need two monitors for this to work.
Slide Show Show Current Screen	Pictures will advance automatically. Rate of advance can be changed in the settings.
Comic Book View	Full screen mode. Small picture of page shown on left. Rest of screen filled with width of page. Arrow keys scroll picture up and down. Page Up and Page Down take you to next page. Makes it easier to read text material like comic book pages.
Resize, Thumbnail, Group	Controls what is shown in main view window.
Focus on Picture F5	If you are tooling around the tree on the right, up and down arrow move around the tree. Press F5 to return focus to picture from tree causing up and down change the picture.
Slide Sorter	Brings up the Slide Sorter at the bottom of the picture frame.
Options	Content of this menu option varies with view selected. When present, bring up options for that screen. Thumbnail Options For the single screen the options are: Shrink to Fit: Pictures will shrink to fit in the display area. Background will be green if picture is shrunk. Grow or Shrink to Fit: Pictures will grow or shrink to fit in the display area. Background color indicates shrunk or grown. Don't Resize: Pictures will not be resized. You can choose to move with keys or scroll bars. Grow to Fit: Pictures will grow to fit in the display area. Background will be pink if picture is grown. The background color and the grown/shrunk icon will tell you if the picture had to grow, shrink, or didn't change size. Same size: Black background Grew: Pink background Shrank: Green background

Tools

Disk Usage	Brings up a display of your disk usage. Currently works well for Windows and Ubuntu Linux.
Tree Statistics	Brings up Tree Statistics. Tree Statistics are the count of directories and image files known to JIBS. This may be somewhat different than is actually on the disk if you do operations outside of JIBS. Reloading the Tree will update the statistics used for this.
Contact Sheet	Brings up Contact Sheet screen
Camera Operations	Brings up Camera Operations
Group Operations	Brings up Group Operations
Split/Join	Brings up Split/Join sub-menu
Other	Brings up Other sub-menu
Settings	Brings up Settings sub-menu

Tools - Split/Join

Splitter	Splits files into smaller files. You can then upload a series of smaller file rather than one big file.
Joiner	Reassembles split files.
Auto-Joiner	If you download many sets of split files, this will scan the directory to put them together automatically.

Tools - Other

Text	Brings up Text sub-menu
Random	Brings up Random sub-menu
Check Sums	Computes common check sums for verifying downloaded files
Rename	Renames Files with Subdirectory Name

Tools - Other - Text

Text Compare	Work in progress
URL Extractor	Extracts URLs from a block of text

Tools - Other - Random

Recreate Directories	Recreates a saved directory structure.
Directory Copy	Copies a directory and all its contents.
Directory Dedup	Removes duplicate files from a directory.
Thin	Thins files in a directory. Meaning delete every 5th file (or whatever you set). If you set to delete every tenth file, you will be decimating the directory (look it up!). ;-)
List Directory Contents	Lists directory contents.

Tools - Settings

Options

Customize JIBS options

Toys

Tile Game

Use any image to play a tile game.

UI

The User Interface menu brings up a list of possible "skins" available on your system.

Help

Help	Brings up Help. Of course, help just tells you to come to this web site, and you are already here!
About	Brings up About with the all important version number.
License	Brings up the full License. Fun reading ;-)
Info	Brings up Info about your system, usually as an aid to debugging problems. For example, you can find out your default language settings there.

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