Once upon a time there was a highly regarded DOS file browser and utility program called Norton Commander. It was so beloved, and so on-point conceptually that clones for Windows were soon to be found all about the land. Some, like the super-tweakable, even more powerful (20 Euros), still exist. Install activex webrec.cab. And that means one big happy forever after if you do a lot of files copying, moving, deleting, etc. Paned browsing with multiple tabs makes XYplorer super-handy for file operations involving multiple locations. Okay, enough of the fractured fairytale. XYplorer is dual-paned file browser, not unlike what you see when you have Windows Explorer open with the tree in view, albeit with and extra pane to facilitate moves and copies. The beauty of this program, however, is that you can open multiple tabs (right-click over a tab) in each pane. This makes it super-easy to copy file from multiple locations to a single one. XYplorer also offers a host of appearance tweaks and the ability to create, save and load scripts for automation. About the only thing missing is folder syncing. So, if you're looking for a file browser on steroids in the tradition of Norton Commander, XYplorer is well worth a look. There's also a portable version that's a slightly larger download. Note: This program costs 20 Euros. The USD price given here reflects the exchange rate on the day this review was posted. ![]() ![]() XYplorer is an Advanced File System Explorer targeting everybody who is looking for a real alternative to the Windows Explorer. It has the following features: Created Date, Last Accessed Date and Attributes are shown right in the file list. XY doesn't expose the content of any pane so to get what you want you could only try to compute it. AHK - Get the current mouse coordinates & size of XY's window - Send a script to XY that reports back the current active pane, all of it's files and folders, the current font and font size for 'Main contents', the current line spacing value, status bar visible / not, breadcrumb bar visible / not, menu visible / not, button bar visible / not, visual filter. - Build internal values of fonts + sizes and their height in pixels. Add line spacing - Read the visible element (ThunderRT6PictureBoxDC56 / 67) - Multiply each entry with the height (former step), use the mouse coordinates to see which element would be under it (depending on active pane). Ofc you get in trouble if somebody uses the windows font scaling or if the second pane is at the bottom (instead of right to it), horizontal scroll bar visible / not, etc. Imho not worth the trouble. Autocart and TheQwerty, excellent idea and implementation. It works great and quite snappy considering what's going on in the background. Now, to think of ways to use it. Another case where AHK and XY play so nicely together. Too bad Don couldn't incorporate the AHK.dll library and have it all in one basket. Of course Norton Anti-virus picked the exec file up as 'reputation.1' virus and of course it's false positive, but I figured I let you know. Edit: I wanted to add that it works fine also if the mouse is over a thumbnail (i.e., the thumbnail itself). It doesn't have to be over the filename below the thumb. That may bring some nice possibilities. Autocart wrote:I also found the reason: The xys-script that works ok has CR+LF as line seperator (DOS-style). The one that does not work has only LF (UNIX-style).Doh. Indeed XY doesn't like that. That's my fault, I have autocrlf enabled in Git so it converts them to LF for storing in the repo, which means the source-archive automatically included by GitHub is wrong, while I built the other archive locally (and thus with CRLF) and uploaded it for the release. *sigh* What a mess releasing this has been!
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