New function: hyperlinks in panels titles

[fabiochelly]

Hi,

Someone once already asked this: it would be great if the path at the top of the panels could work like hyperlinks for each folder (each part of the path points to its folder).

It would be useful to go to a specific folder directly with the mouse without having to go back one by one.

I think it won't be difficult to code if you get the coordinates of the click and use the Canvas.TextWidth function to know in which part of the path the click has been made.

Is it possible to add this behavior to TC?

[Lefteous]

Hi,

Someone once already asked this: it would be great if the path at the top of the panels could work like hyperlinks for each folder (each part of the path points to its folder).

It would be useful to go to a specific folder directly with the mouse without having to go back one by one.

I think it won't be difficult to code if you get the coordinates of the click and use the Canvas.TextWidth function to know in which part of the path the click has been made.

Is it possible to add this behavior to TC?

Left click on a panel titlebar is already assigned to "edit path directly".
Maybe a modifier like Ctrl could help here.

[fabiochelly]

Left click on a panel titlebar is already assigned to "edit path directly"

Yes but I think that hyperlinks would be very much useful and fast

[Black Dog]

[face=courier]On 24-07-2003 19:08:43 +0000 Lefteous wrote:

L> Maybe a modifier like Ctrl could help here.

Just type there appropriate number of periods, for example "...." to go three dirs up. "cd...." from CL works the same way.[/face]

[fabiochelly]

Just type there appropriate number of periods, for example "...."

I'm asking for those who use the mouse

[JohnFredC]

It would be useful to go to a specific folder directly with the mouse without having to go back one by one.

This is a great request. It is already implemented in Servant Salamander (a TC competitor) and works exactly as you describe: as you point at the path in the panel titlebar, each portion of the path is highlighted in turn. Clicking the mouse then navigates the panel to the path that corresponds to the highlighted portion. You can click just the drive letter, or any path down the hierarchy to the current folder.

There are additional great features in the Salamander panel title area, nearly all of which I would like to see implemented in TC. I particularly like how the drive combo works. It is very fast and shows all drive icons.

[JohnFredC]

Left click on a panel titlebar is already assigned to "edit path directly".

I noticed this in the latest version of TC. What is it for? It seems to be redundant to typing "dir [destinationpath]" in the command line.

For me, it just gets in the way when I am just slightly sloppy with my mouse clicking, requiring me to click away from it and try again.

[Jonas]

Left click on a panel titlebar is already assigned to "edit path directly".

[...] What is it for? [...]

If you ar in c:\joe\somedir\someotherdir\ and want to c:\jim\somedir\someotherdir\ It's very useful to be able to edit the path directly. I use this feature very often.

But the idea with the hyperlink-like behavour of every dir in this path by holding down Ctrl is very nice. I'd like to see this feature too.

[jb]

... it would be great if the path at the top of the panels could work like hyperlinks for each folder (each part of the path points to its folder).

Yes, this would be a nice little goody!

[fabiochelly]

I think if it's coded like I wrote on my first message (just calculate the position of the mouseUp, when user clicks on the panel), and combined with CTRL key, it wouldn't interfere with the other behaviors (hot list).

Of course, it would be better without using the CTRL key and I think it's cleaner than the long right click used for the history list.

[Lefteous]

I think if it's coded like I wrote on my first message (just calculate the position of the mouseUp, when user clicks on the panel), and combined with CTRL key, it wouldn't interfere with the other behaviors (hot list).

Of course, it would be better without using the CTRL key and I think it's cleaner than the long right click used for the history list.

A delphi programmer should be familiar with pressing CTRL key and left click to make something a link...

[fabiochelly]

But all TC users are not Delphi programmers! I think that this functionnality brings very much to TC.
Some users could choose another manager just beauce they prefer this behavior.

[Black Dog]

[face=courier]On 25-07-2003 08:18:45 +0000 fabiochelly wrote:

FC> I'm asking for those who use the mouse

I didn't answered YOU.

BD> On 24-07-2003 19:08:43 +0000 Lefteous wrote:
_________________________________^^^^^^^^

OK?[/face]