Accelerating Navigation

• A simple observation is that some of the folders in the storage are accessed a lot more oftenly than others. The folder C:\My Documents is likely to be used much more than say C:\Windows\Spool\Printers.

• It would be nice to have single-click access to such frequently used folders (or two or three-click at least).

• To address this issue, the Location Bar was created. It is a Probe component which contains shortcuts to folders and files of your choice.

Figure 1 : The Location Bar.

• All items on a Location Bar are available by single-clicking them. For folders, this will navigate the active Folder Browser or Tree Browser to the clicked folder. For files, it will open the particular file, which can be a program, a document, or some other file type.

• The Location Bar is organized hierarchichally, where each Location Bar in it's turn may have Popup Location Bars. In figure 1, the items with red triangles are popup-items. When the red triangle is clicked, the Popup Location Bar appears.

• A Popup Location Bar can, for example, contain shortcuts to the most important folders for a specific project, and possibly to the most important documents in that project.

Figure 2 : Cascaded Popup Location Bars.