ExplorerControl - Additional public properties and commands.

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Last Updated: 27 May 2019 20:39 by Jared

Jared

Created on: 10 May 2019 19:33

Category: FileDialogs

Type: Feature Request

ExplorerControl - Additional public properties and commands.

It would be nice to have some additional public properties and commands for ExplorerControl. For example:

Boolean properties to show/hide the first two rows (containing the breadcrumbs, new folder button, layout combo box, etc.).
Search command or public SearchText property.
Cancellable OnNavigating event.
Navigation tree "RootDirectory" property, which would replace the top-level "This PC" node.

Thanks for your consideration!

4 comments

Jared

Posted on: 27 May 2019 20:39

Thank you, Martin!

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Martin Ivanov

Posted on: 27 May 2019 11:32

Hello Jared,

Thank you for the additional information. We are approving the given ideas and also your Telerik points. However, I will close this concrete feature request and open three additional ones, in order to separate them.

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Martin Ivanov
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Jared

Posted on: 20 May 2019 17:16

Thanks for the reply, Martin.

For the search command, I was thinking of having a command like Telerik.Windows.Controls.RadGridViewCommands.Search. Only it would be at Telerik.Windows.Controls.FileDialogs.FileDialogsCommands.Search. So you can execute searches in code.

The attached screenshot shows what it'd look like if there was a RootDirectory property set to my Documents folder. The Documents folder would be the highest-level folder in the navigation tree. Only that folder and its children would be shown. In the breadcrumbs, the Documents folder is the farthest back you can go.

The idea behind this is to keep the user limited to a certain folder. I know they can just open Windows Explorer and go anywhere that their account allows. This is just for user experience, not security.

Thanks!

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Martin Ivanov

Posted on: 17 May 2019 12:45

Hello Jared,

Thank you for the feedback.

May I ask you few questions on the features? More specifically:

"Search command or public SearchText property."

Can you tell me what exactly do you need to customize with this API? And also, which one of the two options would be more convenient for you.
"Navigation tree "RootDirectory" property, which would replace the top-level "This PC" node."

I am not sure that I understand this request. Can you describe it in some more details? A picture of the expected result will be helpful too.

About this one - "Cancellable OnNavigating event." - it is already approved via one of your other feature request. Posting it here for anyone else that hit on this page.
https://feedback.telerik.com/wpf/1408959-filedialogs-expose-currentdirectorypathchanging-event-for-the-explorercontrol

Regards,
Martin Ivanov
Progress Telerik

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