Quick Upward Navigation

[ericjs]

I'd like to suggest a very simple but powerful feature that I've seen in WinScp (this is the only place I've seen it, but it's so simple and useful it ought to be used everywhere): in WinScp if you click on any segment of the path in the address bar it navigates you up to that level. For example if you're currently at

/very/very/very/extremely/long/directory/path

and you click on the third "very", you instantly navigate up to

/very/very/very

without having to hit the up button 4 times.

Cheers,

Eric

[jacky]

Not by clicking on the address bar, but Breadcrumb navigation is already supported in XY, try right-clicking on the tab icon for example (see XYwiki for more)

[j_c_hallgren]

Hi and welcome to the XY forums!

This has been discussed before here more than once, and I'll try to locate a prior thread that deals with it, and then update this post.
(Update: See http://www.xyplorer.com/xyfc/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=1241 for one example.)

But...have you looked at the "Breadcrumb" feature? This is XY's variant of this. You can access it via the small downward triangle that is part of the "Up" toolbar icon for example.

[ericjs]

Thank you both...I'd not spotted the breadcrumb feature yet. I still would like to see the clickable addressbar path segments though: it's much simpler than the breadcrumb feature and only requires one click vs the click-select-second click of the breadcrumb feature (though I see other benefits to the breadcumb, such as use by keyboard).

The discussion you linked suggested the same thing via the tab title, but I think the address bar is more appropriate since the tab can be renamed and (as was pointed out there) has limited length.

Eric

[TheQwerty]

Autohotkey to the rescue, well kind of. It's sloppy and I don't like it (which is why I'm not putting it in my script listed in Script Exchange yet), but it seems to work most of the time.

This one does it on Ctrl+Left Click:

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Ctrl & LButton::
	SendInput ^{Click}
	Sleep 10
	ControlGetFocus focus, A
	if (focus == "Edit6") {
		SendInput {Click}{Control Down}{Right}{Control Up}{Shift Down}{End}{Shift Up}{Delete}{Enter}
	}
	return

And this one does it when you double left click a part of the address:

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~LButton::
	if (LB_presses > 0) {
		LB_presses += 1
	} else {
		LB_presses = 1
		SetTimer, LBCounter, 400
	}
	return

LBCounter:
	SetTimer, LBCounter, Off

	if (LB_presses == 2) {
		ControlGetFocus focus, A
		if (focus == "Edit6") {
			SendInput {Left}{Right}{Shift Down}{End}{Shift Up}{Delete}{Enter}
		}
	}
	LB_presses = 0
	return

[JustinF]

I'd like to suggest a very simple but powerful feature that I've seen in WinScp (this is the only place I've seen it, but it's so simple and useful it ought to be used everywhere): in WinScp if you click on any segment of the path in the address bar it navigates you up to that level. For example if you're currently at

/very/very/very/extremely/long/directory/path

and you click on the third "very", you instantly navigate up to

/very/very/very

without having to hit the up button 4 times.

Cheers,

Eric

What you're talking about is also how Windows Explorer works in Vista. With Vista you can also click the down arrow next to a directory to quickly navigate to one of its sub-directories. It's a handy feature:

[j_c_hallgren]

What you're talking about is also how Windows Explorer works in Vista. With Vista you can also click the down arrow next to a directory to quickly navigate to one of its sub-directories.

Thanks for that screen shot! I've not seen it that clearly or exactly before so didn't follow some comments.

Doing that on AB could be a technical problem is my guess.

[JustinF]

What you're talking about is also how Windows Explorer works in Vista. With Vista you can also click the down arrow next to a directory to quickly navigate to one of its sub-directories.

Thanks for that screen shot! I've not seen it that clearly or exactly before so didn't follow some comments.

No problem! The address bar is actually one (maybe the only) thing I like about the new Windows Explorer. Also when you click at the end of the breadcrumbs (in the screenshot it would be after etc) it turns into a "regular" address bar like we all know and love.

Doing that on AB could be a technical problem is my guess.

Technical problem? Come on, this is Don we're talking about here...the king of custom controls!

[j_c_hallgren]

Doing that on AB could be a technical problem is my guess.

Technical problem? Come on, this is Don we're talking about here...the king of custom controls!

Well..there are some things that Don isn't able to overcome, and I have no idea if this is one or not, but presumed it could be.

[admin]

Doing that on AB could be a technical problem is my guess.

Technical problem? Come on, this is Don we're talking about here...the king of custom controls!

Well..there are some things that Don isn't able to overcome, and I have no idea if this is one or not, but presumed it could be.

Somewhere in this forum I described how I could teach the AB the breadcrumb trick. Like a toggle state: either you can click the path or you can type it. It's on my list, somewhere...