PathWalker

The PathWalker is a demo application. It's show how to use DirEntryListView class in your application. The DirEntryListView is a C++ class that provide functionality of the browser of the filesystem . It's designed from scratch and was clean, fast, lightweight and crossplatform.


The main features are:

fully asynchronous filesystem access (user may interrupt long-lasting operation)

completely keyboard-oriented interaction with the user (use Ctrl+Tab and Number to navigate between functional areas, Menu button and Number to activate context menu items)

multicolumn sorting in the TableView

quick filtering of the dir content by the wildcard pattern

notification if current directory was modified by changing background color of the path edit control

history

bookmarks

Hotkeys:

Alt+Up arrow: switch to the parent dir
Alt+Down arrow: open selected directory
Alt+Left arrow: history back
Alt+Right arrow: history forward

Ctrl+F: show/hide quick filter
Ctrl+T: popup tools menu
Ctrl+N: start new copy of PathWalker

F5: reread content of current dir
Backspace: switch to the parent dir
Escape: cancel current operation and/or the quick filter

Ctrl+Tab and Number: navigate between functional areas
'Menu button' and Number: activate context menu items

2014-12-18:

fix: windows download