The Location Bar

Often, when working under MS Windows, you'll find that you're using some of the folders on your computer a lot more than others. For example, many users access the folder X:\My Documents more often than say X:\Windows\Spool. Another example may be that you're working a lot with a project whose files are located in a given directory. This suggests that it would be convenient being able to access such frequently used folders with a single mouse click.

See also: Reference Manual, The Location Bar

Fig 1: The Location Bar, horizontally oriented

This is where the Location Bar comes in. It is a frame type which can be placed anywhere in the Probe main window. The most frequently used folders are kept on the Location Bar. To add folders or files to the location bar, you just drag the folders (or file) to the Location Bar with the right mouse button and select 'Create Shortcut Here'. The items on the Location Bar can be moved within the Location Bar, and removed when no longer needed. Since full paths of folders tends to be long, shorter 'nick-names' can be given to the items on the Location Bar.

To navigate, using the Location Bar, make sure that a Folder Browser or a Tree Browser is active. As you move the mouse-cursor over the Location Bar, the items are hi-lighted. When the correct item is hi-lighted, just click on it. The active browser will jump to the selected folder.

Fig 2: A Folder Browser is activated

Fig 3: Moving the mouse-cursor over the Location Bar

Fig 4: Clicking 'Upload' will take the active browser there

In the figure above, the 'Desktop' icon is on the Location Bar. This means that the Desktop is only a single click away at any time when using Probe. So, when having to access a shortcut located on the desktop, there is no need uncovering it by moving and hiding windows. Instead, simply click on it's icon on the Location Bar and you're there!

The Location Bar can also have shortcuts into compressed archives, or even more useful, into remote FTP sites. Provided you have an Internet connection active, any specific folder on an FTP site can be a single click away using the Location Bar.

Fig 5: About to enter Microsoft FTP site

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