Visual QuickStart Guide [Electronic resources] : Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger نسخه متنی

The Toolbar

The toolbar (Figure 52 ) offers navigation tools and view buttons within Finder windows:

The

Back button displays the previous window's contents.

The

Forward button displays the window that was showing before you clicked the Back button.

View buttons enable you to change the window's view.

The

Action pop-up menu (Figure 53 ) offers commands for working with an open window or selected object(s) within the window.

Figure 53. The Action pop-up menu offers commands for working with selected items in a window.






Search box enables you to quickly search the window for a file by name.

Chapter 4 explains how.

Does the Action pop-up menu in

Figure 17 .

Views are covered in

Chapter 4 , using the Search box is covered in

Chapter 5 , and file management and navigation are discussed in

Chapter 3 .

If the window is not wide enough to show all toolbar buttons, a double arrow appears on the right side of the toolbar (Figure 54 ). Click the arrow to display a menu of missing buttons (Figure 55 ), and select the button you want.

To hide or display the toolbar

Click the toolbar control button (Figure 56 ).

One of two things happens:

If the toolbar is displayed, it disappears (Figure 56 ).

If the toolbar is not displayed, it appears (Figure 57 ).

Figure 57. …or display it.




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Tip

As shown in

Figure 56 , hiding the toolbar also hides the Sidebar (which is discussed on the next page) and window borders and moves the status bar so it appears right beneath the title bar. This makes the window smaller and more like the windows in Mac OS 9 and earlier.

To use a toolbar button

Click the button once.

To use the Action pop-up menu