Quanta's Menus

Note

Some of the items listed in this section may be incorrect. If you find an error, please drop a line to <robert@artnickel.com> and let me know about it. Much of the menu tree was changed shortly after I wrote this section.

File Menu

File->New (Ctrl+N): Create a new, blank file.
File->Open (Ctrl+O): Search the filesystem to open an existing file. You can also use the kio slaves here to open up files from the network by placing the kio slave tag at the beginning of the url. (e.g. ftp://foo.bar.com/myfile.html)
File->Open Recent: Quick list of the last several files you've opened for ease of use. This list will change each time you open a file that is not on it, with the oldest being bumped off first.
File->Save (Ctrl+S): Save the active file's changes.
File->Save As: Save the active file with another name.
Save As Template: This allows you to save code snippets and entire files as a template for later use. See the section on templates
File->Save All (Ctrl+Shift+S): Save all modified files in the editor.
File->Print (Ctrl+P): A new feature in Quanta! You can actually print out your documents. Uses the kprinter interface.
File->Close (Ctrl+W): Close the currently displayed file.
File->Close All: Close all open files. Prompting for save if modified, of course.
File->Quit (Ctrl+Q): Exit Quanta

Edit Menu

Edit->Undo (Ctrl+Z)

Undo the last action performed.

Edit->Redo (Ctrl+Shift+Z)

Redo the last action undone.

Edit->Cut (Ctrl+X)

Cut the current block of text and place its contents on the clipboard.

Edit->Copy (Ctrl+C)

Copy the current block of text to the clipboard.

Edit->Paste (Ctrl+V)

Paste the contents of the clipboard at the current cursor position.

Edit->Paste Special

Edit->Paste Special->HTML Quoted: Converts the clipboard text HTML special characters to html entities before pasting into the text body so they show up properly when viewed and aren't picked up as tags by the client browser.
Edit->Paste Special->URL Encoded

Edit->Select All (Ctrl+A)

Select all of the text in the current document.

Edit->Deselect (Ctrl+Shift+A)

Unselect all text in the current document.

Edit->Toggle Block Selection (F4)

Turn on/off block highlighting. Allows you to select text blocks with your keyboard without holding down the shift key.

Edit->Find (Ctrl+F)

String or regular expression pattern to find in the current document.

Edit->Find Next (F3)

Repeat the find downward in the document from the current location.

Edit->Find Previous (Shift+F3)

Repeat the find upward in the document from the current location.

Edit->Replace (Ctrl+R)

String or regular expression replacement of text in the current file.

Edit->Find in Files (Alt+Ctrl+A)

Find a string or expression in files in the selected directory. Sort of a gui grep or sed with some predefined pattern spaces to help you out.

Edit->Indent (Ctrl+I)

Move the selected block of text one tab width to the right.

Edit->Unindent (Ctrl+Shift+I)

Move the selected block of text one tab width to the left.

Edit->Comment (Ctrl+#)

Deprecated. HTML specific function that will be pulled soon. Don't get used to it as it's HTML comments and not DTD specific.

Edit->Uncomment (Ctrl+Shift+#)

Deprecated. HTML specific function that will be pulled soon. Don't get used to it as it's HTML comments and not DTD specific.

Edit->Apply Word Wrap

Wrap the text in the current window to a predefined width.

Edit->Go to Line (Ctrl+G)

Go directly to a specific line number. This is really helpful when your PHP script is barfing at you!

Edit->Spelling...

Check the spelling in the current document.

View Menu

View->Show Files Tree: Toggle display of the files tree.
View->Show Project Tree: Toggle display of the project tree.
View->Show Template Tree: Toggle display of the template tree.
View->Show Structure Tree: Toggle display of the document structure tree.
View->Show Documentation Tree: Toggle display of the documentation tree.
View->Show Preview (F6): Preview the current document.
Back: Navigate back one step in the preview.
Forward: Navigate forward one step in the preview after having gone back in the preview.
View->Reload Preview (F5): Reload the preview from disk.
View->View with Netscape (Alt+F6): View the current file with Netscape (Mozilla).
View->View with Konqueror (Ctrl+F6): View the current file with Konqueror.
View->View with Lynx (Shift+F6): View the current file with Lynx (text based browser).

Bookmarks Menu

Bookmarks->Toggle Bookmark (Ctrl+B): Toggle a bookmark at the current line location in the current file.
Bookmarks->Clear Bookmarks: Clears all set bookmarks.

Project Menu

If you are looking for a description of how to use projects in Quanta, go here instead.

Project->New Project: Launch the project creation wizard.
Project->Open Project: Open an existing project file from disk. Quanta projects are saved with the .webprj extension.
Project->Open Recent: Gives you a list of your most recently used projects for quick access.
Project->Save Project: Save the current project to disk.
Project->Close Project: Close the current project.
Project->Insert Files: Presents a dialog that allows you to select files to add to your current project. These files will then be copied into the project directory for editing.
Project->Insert Directory: Insert a directory and all of its contents into the current project.
Project->Rescan Project Directory: Scan the project directory for any new files you may have there. This allows you to copy graphics into your project directory or a subdirectory thereof and then add them to the project.
Project->Upload Project: Upload the files in your project to the hosting server. The list of available transports depends on the version of KDE you are running and whether or not you've downloaded extra kio slaves.
Project->Project Options: Settings affecting the way Quanta manages your project. See the Quanta projects section for details.

Tags Menu

This menu contains a list of the tags that are on the currently loaded toolbars. i.e. If you have the Standard (HTML) toolbar loaded, the Tags menu will contain a submenu Standard which will contain the list of tags/actions on that toolbar. This is a pretty cool little keyboard navigation scheme that Andras came up with of a sudden one day.

Tools Menu

Tools->Change DTD Type: Pops up a dialog box that allows you to change the current documents DTD (Document Type Defininition)
Tools->Edit Current Tag (Ctrl+E): Allows you to access the current markup tag's settings dialog if one exists.
Tools->Syntax Check: Checks the syntax of the current document against the selected DTD.

Toolbars Menu

Toolbars->Load Toolbars

Toolbars->Load Toolbars->Load Global Toolbar: Loads a globally defined toolbar. These are kept in $KDEDIR/share/apps/quanta/toolbars by default.
Toolbars->Load Toolbars->Load Local Toolbar: Loads a locally defined toolbar. These are kept in $HOME/.kde/share/apps/quanta/toolbars by default.
Toolbars->Load Toolbars->Load Project Toolbar: Loads a project toolbar. These are kept in <ProjectDir>/toolbars and are only available in this menu if they have been assigned to this project.

Toolbars->Save Toolbars

Dialog for saving your toolbars. Allows you to pick the type of toolbar; Local or Project.

Toolbars->Save Toolbars->Save as Local Toolbar: Save as a local toolbar to $HOME/.kde/share/apps/quanta/toolbars
Toolbars->Save Toolbars->Save as Project Toolbar: Save as a project toolbar in <ProjectDir>/toolbars

Toolbars->Add User Toolbar

Brings up a dialog to create a new toolbar. This only creates the name. Actions must be added from the Settings->Configure Actions menu item. Toolbars are saved via the Toolbars->Save Toolbars menu or on close unsaved toolbars will prompt for you to save.

Toolbars->Remove User Toolbar

Remove a toolbar from usage. This does not remove it from the disk. If you've not saved the toolbar you are removing, you will be prompted to save it.

Toolbars->Send Toolbar in Email

This is a hook to email your custom toolbar to someone (maybe the Quanta team for inclusion in the next release!) for their use. It spawns an email window and attaches your toolbar file to it automagically.

Settings Menu

Show Toolbar: Toggle display of the Quanta toolbar. This has no effect on the action toolbars.
Show Statusbar: Toggle display of the status bar along the bottom of the editor.
Show Messages: Toggle display of the message window. This is the window where you see the output of any scripting actions and the debugger.
Show Icon Border: Toggle display of the icon border to the left of the main editor window. This bar allows for click toggling of bookmarks.
Show Line Numbers: Toggles the display of line numbers along the left side of the main editor window.
Configure Editor: Setup the behavior of the editor window. See the documentation on Kate for details.
Configure Quanta: Setup the behavior of Quanta.
Configure Actions: This is where you define the actions for use on toolbars. Please see the
Configure Toolbars: Dialog that allows you to add/delete items to/from toolbars and change the order the icons appear in.
Configure Shortcuts: Allows you to configure the many editor shortcuts available to Quanta.
Highlight Mode: Choose the syntax highlighting mode for the current file. The list of available highlighting schemes varies depending on your version of Kate.
End of Line: Select the end of line encoding type. Useful if you have folks using other OS platforms to develop on (shudder at the thought). Choose from Unix, Windows/DOS or Macintosh.

Help Menu

Quanta Handbook
What's this?: This gives a little question mark next to your pointer and allows clicking on an object for specific help. At the time of this writing this feature is not implemented.
Context Help: This should produce help based on the current pointer context. At the time of this writing this feature is not implemented.
Report Bug: This gathers the operating environment for Quanta and produces a link to the kde bug wizard.
About Quanta: All about Quanta, it's authors and supporters. Also contains a copy of the software license that Quanta exists under.
About KDE: Displays a popup window with information about your running kde, how to report bugs for kde, how to join the effort and more.