What: TOXFile, the Tcl OBEXTool-derived File Explorer
 Where: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=17456
 Description: The first pure Tcl/Tk, cross-platform, drag/drop-enabled, explorer-style file manager.
 Updated: 6/13/2006
 Contact: stephen.huntley@alum.mit.edu

Screenshot: [http://sourceforge.net/dbimage.php?id=75501]

[OBEXTool] is a very nice program, a high-quality specialty ftp client that acts like a file explorer.  Since there are heretofore no cross-platform explorer-style file managers in the Tcl universe, I decided to poach its feature set by ripping out the ftp guts and turning it into the real thing.

TOXFile has many of the basic features of a good file explorer: toolbar, address bar, right-click context menus, multiple file selection drag and drop, a simple text file viewer/editor and file search.

On top of that, it's modular and configurable, external programs for viewing and editing files can be assigned by file type, and it has a Tcl plugin API for specialty tasks.  Adding more advanced features should be fairly easy.

Being pure Tcl/Tk, it of course recognizes Tcl virtual filesystems.  So it can be more than a file viewer, it is just one vfs away from being able to handle any sort of tree-format information.  This combined with the ability to add plugins for specialty tasks gives TOXFile the potential to be a highly useful general purpose hierarchical information manager. 

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