User Interface

Navigation Services provides an improved user interface for opening and saving documents. This user interface includes a host of easy-to-use features for browsing and managing the file system. Navigation Services dialog boxes include

Open
Save
Choose a File
Choose a Folder
Choose a Volume
Choose a File Object
Create New Folder

Navigation Services provides two types of alert boxes:

Save Change
Discard Changes

All Open, Save, and Choose dialog boxes share some basic user interface elements. These include:

a browser list
a Location pop-up menu button
Shortcuts, Favorites, and Recent bevel buttons
a default ("action") button
a Cancel button
a sort order button
an optional size box

Figure 1 shows these elements used in an Open dialog box.

Figure 1 Standard dialog box elements

Note

Minor changes were made in the user interface elements of Navigation Services dialog boxes between version 1.0 and version 1.1. Figures in this document have been updated for Navigation Services version 1.1 if appropriate.

User Interface

Note

Browser List

Navigation Options

Keyboard Equivalents

Persistence