Seemless Shell Integration

• Under Windows 95/98/NT, many important objects and services, such as Control Panel Applets, Printers,  Recycle Bins, etc, are available in Shell Folders. A shell folder can be said to be any folder that not primarily contains files, but rather presents some sort of service.

• With Probe, all such folders are browsed and accessed as easily as any other folder. When one navigates to a shell-folder, Probe creates the approriate OLE-object, and merges this object into the active frame of Probe.

Figure 1 : Browsing the Control panel from within Probe.

• A convenient way to transfer data between applications is Drag & Drop and the Windows Clipboard.

• Probe fully supports both Drag & Drop and the Windows Clipboard. You may drag files from other applications and drop in a Folder Browser or Tree Browser in Probe, or alternatively, drag files from Probe and drop onto some other application, or the Desktop.

Figure 2 : Dragging files from Probe

Figure 3 : Dropping them onto the Desktop

Figure 4 : New Shortcuts have been created.