Subfolders Peek

[landbioz]

Hi!
Could you make some kind of peeking tool, to see the subfolders and files inside the folders without having to open them?

Thank you!!!

[yusef88]

yes, something like what in qttabbar

[Filehero]

The breadcrumbs already provide a sort of subfolder preview.


Cheers,
Filehero

[bdeshi]

http://www.xyplorer.com/xyfc/viewtopic. ... up#p109226 you can try the linked scriptlet. select a folder and trigger the script. I've got it setup as a PFA.

[landbioz]

yes, something like what in qttabbar

Exactly, just like QTTabBar!

I think that breadcrumbs and scripts may be a little messy sometimes.

Cheers...

[highend]

A suggestion in autohotkey:

XYPeekFolders.zip

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To invoke it you should have a folder focused and selected and then press "q" (for _q_uick view).
It won't do anything if a file (or nothing) is selected.

After pressing q it displays a menu with all folders and files of that folder.

"Esc" or moving the mouse away from the context menu + mouse click" dismisses the menu
Clicking on an entry will let XY navigate to that file / into the folder.

Main disadvantage: Icons...
AHK isn't by itself able to display the normal system icons (how windows assigned them) inside this menu so atm I'm only displaying a folder icon and icons for these filetypes: exe|ico|cur|ani|cpl|scr|icl

Icons for pictures could be displayed as well but this could slow down the time to display the menu so I left these ones out.

Submenus for folders inside this menu are not displayed...

It's just a quick preview of what's inside the current selected folder...

[yusef88]

may help
http://www.desksoft.com/FastFolders.htm#Features

[yusef88]

thanks highend>> a small problem

[highend]

may help
http://www.desksoft.com/FastFolders.htm#Features

Why, even it is was written in AHK, it's closed source (and probably obfuscated to protect it...)?

thanks highend>> a small problem

Yeah, even .exe files don't always have an icon and I've seen that as well for .dll files...

This version will only show folder icons to avoid any error messages like that:

XYPeekFolders.zip

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[Stef123]

I second landbioz' wish for a peeking feature.
Preferably it would not need any additional key presses. You'd toggle it ON or OFF similar to the sticky-icon for sticky selections. In its ON state you'd get to see the content in the other pane, in list view or whatever view you've set up in the other pane.
Multi-selections of folders would only show the last selected/ focused folder, of course.

[highend]

A better attempt (using only XY scripting instead of AHK): http://www.xyplorer.com/xyfc/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=12675