--- mstools/samples/filer/readme.txt 2018/08/09 18:22:15 1.1.1.1 +++ mstools/samples/filer/readme.txt 2018/08/09 18:24:29 1.1.1.2 @@ -4,47 +4,50 @@ SUMMARY: Filer.exe is a basic file management applet, ala File Manager or - Norton Commander. It demonstrates many of the new File I/O API, - and their related algorithms, such as drive enumeration and directory - tree walking. It also demonstrates many intensive user algorithms, - such as child managment, subclassing, synchronization and control - window management. + Norton CommanderTM. It demonstrates many of the new File I/O API, + and their related algorithms, such as drive enumeration, .EXE Version + Information retrieval and directory tree expansion. It also + demonstrates many intensive user algorithms, such as child managment, + subclassing, synchronization and control window management. DESCRIPTION: - Filer presents the user with two fixed child windows, each of which - the user may associate with a drive from the drives available on the - system. + Filer presents the user with two configurable child windows, each of + which the user may associate with a drive from the drives available on + the system. A Drive Toolbar describes the available drives on the system. Users select drives from the toolbar or the Drives menu. A function toolbar - also corresponds to the file I/O functions in the File menu. + also corresponds to the file I/O functions in the File menu. A command + line window at the bottom of the app will spawn a command shell with + the command given, and the option of keeping or destroying the command + window after the given command completes. Each of these Drive child windows contains a Directory ListBox, and a File ListBox, with which the user may browse through the files on the selected drive. Filer gives the user the option to Open (execute/edit), Copy, Delete, - Move, and Rename files, as well as Make and Remove Directories. The - active Drive child acts as the source, and the inactive Drive child - acts as the default destination of file I/O operations. + Move, and Rename files, as well as Make and Remove Directories, and + display version information embedded in Win32 files. The active Drive + child acts as the source, and the inactive Drive child acts as the + default destination of file I/O operations. The Drive children may also be configured as side by side or above and below one another, and the File and Directory Listboxes in each may swap - positions. + positions. The user may opt to fully expand the Directory trees. All features of Filer may be selected from the Mouse, Keyboard, or by Menu Items. -FUTURE ENHANCEMENTS: +FUTURE ENHANCEMENTS(?): - -Command line. A functional command line at the bottom of the app. -Directory copy, move, and delete. - -More efficient Directory ListBox enumeration; user directory expansion, - ala File Manager. -Font choice. -Online Help. -Save configuration. -File associations. -Network drive functions. + -File size, last change information; view/modify file attributes. + -Total size of given single/multiple selection of files.