Open content of folder in another pane by double-clicking?

[higado2]

A member named "babac" posted this a few days ago:

"Is it possible to open a folder e.g. from left pane, so that it opens content in right pane?" (not exact quote)

The answer given to him was to use Alt+Enter.

My question is: is it possible to add an icon to the main Toolbar that will let you toggle this on/off (like the "Mirror" icon does) so that instead of pressing Alt+Enter you would just double click on a folder on the left pane and it would open in the right pane.

Can this be done? it would save me tons of hours!  Oh, and many thanks for this great replacement to that pestering Windows Explorer!!  :P

[nikos]

no but you can also press ALT while you double click, you don't have to use it in conjunction to ENTER

[fgagnon]

Thanks nikos  :)  

(not being habitually slaved to the mouse, I forgot to mention that alternative in the other threadoriginally.  ;) )

[higado2]

Many thanks for the prompt reply! pressing ALT and double clicking is certainly better than ALT+Enter. Its too bad about adding the Toolbar icon I was talking about, but this will do just fine. Many thanks again for your help and for this great program!  :D

[snakebyte]

Hi Higado,

          Even I would like to see some generic solution your problem. I face it every day. The toolbar button that you want is similar to the locked tab behavior that we had requested Nikos. Unfortunately it’s not coming our way

viewtopic.php?p=24436

Let us all hope that Nikos might change his mind someday. Nevertheless xplorer2 is a gr8 program.

[squarepegger]

I'm a newbie who couldn't imagine that Xplorer2 wouldn't open a folder and show the contents in the other pane. ALT+ENTER works just fine, left or right ALT key, but I use the United States-International keyboard localization (a regional option) and get different results when I double-click with the left ALT key depressed than with the right ALT key depressed.

Left ALT+double click does what I expect; the contents of the selected folder are displayed in the other pane. Right ALT+double click, however, opens a new instance of Xplorer2 with the other pane unchanged and the original pane replaced by the contents of the selected and ALT+double clicked folder.

Just thought some folks might want to know what I see using Windows 2000.

Xplorer2 is a GREAT utility; why hasn't Microsoft bought it from you?

[narayan]

Who do you think paid for Nikos' vacation at Las Vegas?  

[Mr.Pleasant]

In an international keyboard lay-out, the right Alt-key has an entirely different function. You can use it for modifying keys for typing accented characters and symbols. If you don't want that, switch to a non-international keyboard (somewhere in a difficult-to-find place in the configuration panel ). It's either having two 'true' Alt-keys to your disposal, or having the comfort of easy typing accented characters and only one 'true' Alt-key.

[narayan]

Isn't it called ALT Gray in some keyboard, rather than ALT?

I am not very clear about this distinction, but at least it seems to point to the fact that the keys are not the same.

[fgagnon]

I believe the "different" key is commonly called either
Right <Alt>  or <Right Alt>
Example page

It is usually beside the spacebar, and not in the [gray] keypad area.

[narayan]

Of course. The location is next to space bar. I was referring to the printing on it; not to its actual color, which could be anything.

[Gandolf]

Alt Gr is "alternate graving" because it is normally used for generating accented characters and other special characters.