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| Jack the Clipper

Create and edit web clips.
Web clips are essentially Safari bookmarks with their own icon on the phone's home screen. They contain a web address which is passed to Safari upon launch.
Select a web clip from the 'Web Clip' menu or create a new one. Select 'Update List' to rebuild the list of clips in the menu. iFuntastic will create a folder on disk that holds the files of the web clip: the Info.plist with the address and name of the clip and the icon file. iFuntastic also adds a content folder for additional files. The web clip folder itself has a cryptic string of letters as its name; the ones iFuntastic creates have the date and time of creation as their name.
There are currently three kinds of web clips. Choose the desired one from the 'Kind' menu.
Standard
This is the standard no frills web clip. Enter any web address (URL) that as usual starts with http://
Things get much more interesting when you have the file schema library installed that lets you enter addresses of local files. The library is installed as part of iFuntastic Support. If it is not installed, then install it with Cydia: Cydia -> Sections -> Tweaks -> file:// Schema in Safari.
With the file schema you can enter addresses that begin with file:// and point to a file on the phone that Safari can display. Use the 'Select File...' button to choose a file on the phone or any file on disk. If it's on disk, then iFuntastic will copy it into the Content folder. After you save your web clip and launch it, Safari will open the copied file.
The file can be text, movie, song, image or PDF - or even HTML for a local web site or possibly presentation!
Movie files appear to require the extension .mov, but some other formats (.m4v .mp4) play as well. iFuntastic will change their extensions to .mov.
Dial Phone Number
Enter a phone number that will be dialled. The address will start with tel:// instead of http:// or file://.
Safari will ask whether to call the number or not.
File List
This kind of web clip displays a simple web page made up of a list of links for the files in the content folder. A very convenient way to have a selection of special files ready for viewing or listening. Drag files from the File Manager list on the right side (or any other source) into the list on the left side. You can drag folders as well (images for web pages, for example,) but they won't show up in the file list.
Click the 'Switch to Content Folder' button to open the content folder in the right list. Here you can delete, rename or edit the files and folders.
When you click 'Save' the list of files is put into a special FileList.html file which will be the index page for your very own mini web site (and the clip folder will be copied to the phone.)
You can enter a name to be displayed for each file (the 'link') and you can arrange the order by dragging the files within the list. Push the enter or return key to save the list of names; otherwise you may lose the names you entered if you don't save your web clip to the phone.
The file list index page is created from a template in the iFuntastic application (Contents -> Installations -> Placeholder -> FileList.html.) If you know your way around HTML, then feel free to edit it.
Widgetation Page 1 with File List (Password protect your file list)
The setup for this kind of web clip is as tortured as the name :-) It works as above: you can display a list of files on a web page; the difference is that you can design your own entry page with the Widgetation page in iFuntastic. The entry page can contain all sorts of images and widgets and other useful information and it can also contain a password field which will then continue on to the actual file list. In short: password protect your file list. Please note that the protection is very basic. iFuntastic keeps the file list page out of the browser history; it also renames the 'FileList.html' file with a randomized name (so it can't simply be typed into Safari's address field.) However, the individual files will get entered into the history; I tried to suppress this, but then Safari won't return to the file list after displaying one of the files :-(. If you are serious about privacy, clear your browser history after viewing any of the private files.
Procedure for showing a Widgetation web page in a web clip

- go to the Widgetation page and create a new theme - it does not need to be installed on the device
- select 'Web Page 1' from the Mode menu. This page will be the main page of the web clip
- design your page; if you want to be able to switch to the file list, pick a link, a password protected link or a link button widget and set its address to 'Web Clip File List' (the actual address is relative to the page and is ../../Content/FileList.html)
- return to Jack the Clipper and select the theme you just created from the Theme menu. The theme is prepared and copied as 'Widgetation' into the clip's folder on disk
- prepare the file list if desired
- click 'Save'

Note: whenever you make a change to the theme on the widgetation page you will have to select it from the Theme menu to copy the changes into the clip and then save the clip to the device.
Icon
Click on the icon to edit it with the standard image editor or drag any image file onto it.
This icon will be the clip's home screen icon and will also be displayed on the top of the file list.
Save
Click 'Save' to copy the web clip folder to the phone.