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The ViewBar is a small window that is dockable to the top or bottom of your screen, and displays your connections over time. This handy feature allows you to keep an eye on your connections, but without having the main X-NetStat window visible and taking up space. It has the same appearance and nature as the Windows taskbar, and the Microsoft Office "Shortcut Bar". Other windows will adjust around it, so it will always be visible.

Turning on the ViewBar

The ViewBar is disabled by default. To turn it on, click the View menu and check Show ViewBar.

You can also click the Minimize to Viewbar button on the toolbar to hide the main window and turn on the viewbar.

After this, a small bar will appear on the bottom of your screen and the surrounding windows should adjust around it.

 

The ViewBar

1) XNS Button – If you click this button, it will bring up a menu to toggle the options related to the ViewBar. You can also close the ViewBar and exit XNS from here.

2) Connection display – Here is where the connections are displayed one at a time. If "Scroll connections" is enabled, new connections will automatically be displayed after a certain interval. If the Scroll connections feature is not enabled, you must manually advance to the next connection (see #3). By right-clicking on a displayed connection, you can copy it's information to the clipboard.

Connection “Events”, like New and Closed connection messages will also flash here.

3) Next, Previous, Pause, Refresh buttons – By clicking the up and down arrows, you can manually browse through your current connection list. Clicking the Pause button will stop Auto-Scrolling connections. Clicking the Refresh button forces a refresh of active connections, and should be done every so often if you do not have AutoRefresh enabled.

4) Transmission LEDs – Transmission LEDs will light up in response to network activity.

5) System clock – Shows your current time. Double-click to copy it to the clipboard.