See the content of a folder without opening the folder

[mike76]

There is one shell extension for windows explorer - QTTabBar which has one cool feature. When you hover the mouse over a folder in the corner of the folder is appearing one arrow and if you click on the arrow you can see the content of the folder without actually open the folder. It saves lots of time when you want to see the content of a folder that has lot of subfolders inside it. I think it will be useful if this feature can be implemented in XYplorer.

[admin]

Not totally sure what you mean. You have a screenshot?

[serendipity]

I was curious about this and looked it up too. It looks likes this:

qt-tabbar1.png (114.5 KiB) Viewed 2508 times

[mike76]

Here is some information about QTTabBar. It has a couple of features but i am talking only for this feature when you click on the blue arrow and you can see the content of the folder without opening the folder.

http://qt-tabbar.en.softonic.com/images
http://www.techsupportalert.com/content ... tabbar.htm

[FeatureCreep]

If its any help, you can do something very similar via the context menu and with two small apps.

To get a popup menu of a folder's contents (from which you can also navigate a cascading menu) you can use menuApp
http://www.desktopapps.co.uk/menuApp.php

To add custom commands to Windows file and folder context menus (which will also appear in XYplorer) you can use FileMenu Tools (a shell extension).
http://www.lopesoft.com/en/fmtools/info.html

Both are free.

1. Place menuApp.exe anywhere on your system (it's portable).
2. Install FileMenu Tools. (it's not)
3. Configure FileMenu Tools...
Add Command
Action: Run Program
Menu Text: Browse from here... [or whatever]
Element Types
Files: No
Folders: Yes
Program Properties
Program: C:\...\menuApp.exe

No arguments are necessary as the current folder is the default argument that FileMenu Tools sends.

[admin]

Interesting. Nags me that I did not have the idea by myself.