CapeSoft File Explorer

• Introduction
• What's New in File Explorer 5?
• Features
• Screenshots
• Clarion Online says...
• Compatible With
• Documentation & Support
• Cost & Compatibility
• Refunds

Open the door to a whole new world! File Explorer lets you embed a whole range of document types directly into your application. Embed a Web Browser on your window. Play all music, and video files. View PDF's. Edit HTML  (web) pages. Based on the legendary COM classes by Andy Ireland. Nothing is faster! Nothing is more stable!

• Browse AND Edit HTML files
• Full Browser control - allow the user to browse and view any content that can be accessed using InternetExplorer.
• Automated web sites - fill and submit forms, automate navigation,
• View PDF files
• Play Sound files - supported formats include MP3, Wav, Snd, Au, MID, M3U and MPE etc. (all formats supported by Windows Media Player)
• Play Video files - supported formats include MPEG, Mov, AVI, WMV and QT etc. (all formats supported by Windows Media Player)
• Play Macromedia Flash (SWF) Files
• Simple to add a control to your program in a matter of minutes. Each "Viewer" control can play any number of file formats, you choose which file formats are supported for each control.
• Add multiple viewers to any procedure, including multiple viewers of the same type to provide powerful and flexible interfaces such as tabbed document browsing.
• Display Email (EML) and Web Archive (MHT) files directly in your application.
• Provide a full email viewer and composer quickly and easily.
• Rich document editing and easy "mail merge" style functionality.
• Extensive examples and documentation.
• Leverage the power of the NetTalk WebServer classes and template directly within your application to "serve" any data directly out of memory, or from a database.

• Extensive new documentation, updated and improved examples, new classes to improved HTML editing and media viewing, new file handling classes and much more ...
• Completely new HTML Editor (the old editor is still supported, but deprecated). Provides a fast, robust and feature rich editor. A few of the features of the new editor:
• Compatible with all version of Windows, including Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008.
• Requires only Internet Explorer 5.5 or later on the machine, there are no other dependencies.
• Generates HTML with Internet Explorer 5, 6, 7 and Gecko browser (Mozilla / Firefox / Netscape) compatibility.
• XHTML 1.0 support (generates clean, standard compliant XHTML code)
• Font formatting: type, size, color, style, bold, italic, etc.
• Text formatting: alignment, indentation, bullets list, etc.
• CSS (cascading style sheets) support for a better integration with web sites and cleaner, faster, small code with better consistency.
• What You See Really Is What You Get. Pages are rendered by IE as you edit them, so the rendering is very accurate.
• Cut, Paste and Paste as Plain Text, Undo and Redo.
• Paste from MS Word cleanup with auto detection.
• Link creation.
• Anchors support.
• Image insertion.
• Table creation and editing (add, delete rows, etc) - one of the best systems in the market.
• Table cells editing (size, colours, etc).
• Form fields.
• Right click context menus support.
• Complete toolbar customization.
• Easy menu customization and skins (add your own styles, font-formats, etc ...).
• Skins support.
• Plug-in support.
• Spell checker integration via SpellerPages (additional built-in spell checking options coming soon!)
• Multi-language support, including Right to Left scripting.
• Complete page editing, including visually setting the overall page properties.
• Lightweight and fast.
• Automatic browser detection and support for IE 5.5 and upwards.
• Load from memory or disk or URL.
• Save to memory or disk .
• Full access to the editor and editor data programmatically.
• Easily customizable, fully skin-able and can be modified without requiring a recompile of the application.
• Easily customizable toolbars, including runtime customization and additions (no recompile required).
• Ability to get and set the text or HTML simply by calling a method.
• Much, much more!
• Full access to the DOM of the edited page coming soon!
• New feMedia2 class replaces the old feMedia class. The new class automatically uses the new version of the Windows Media Player interfaces if they are available and falls back to the old version. Implements backward compatibility for existing code, although some methods may not work with the new Media Player control because of changes in the underlying Media Player control. The new media player features almost a hundred new methods for interfacing with Windows Media Player and there is still a significant amount of additional functionality that will be added.
• Major documentation update and rearrangement.
• New documentation for the new feMedia and feEditor classes.
• Moved all documentation towards XHTML and CSS based, without any inline formatting.
• New feFile class that provides file loading and saving, using the Windows API, as well as providing functions to manage file names and paths. New methods: Load, Save, ErrorTrap, FileNameFromPath, PathOnly.

What do I need to do to upgrade from File Explorer 4 to File Explorer 5?

Why is Capesoft charging for an upgrade from File Explorer 4 to File Explorer 5?

• Video Control
• HTML Editing Control
• Multiple Objects
• HTML Browsing Control
• PDF Control
• Flash Support

Bottom line: File Explorer is a great way to expand the visual vocabulary of your programs, and offers a lot of bang for the buck. If you want to add any kind of pre-formatted or dynamic contents to your programs, it is definitely worth checking out." Clarion Online (Oct 2001)

Documentation for the product is available here. Go here for further support.

Clarion 6	No
Clarion 7	No
Clarion 8	Yes
Clarion 9	Yes
Clarion 10	Yes
Clarion11	Yes
Clarion Templates	Yes
ABC Templates	Yes
Local Mode	Yes
DLL Mode	Yes
Multi DLL	Yes

The price of File Explorer is $267. It is available for purchase from ClarionShop.

The upgrade is available for purchase at $167 from ClarionShop

For other payment options please contact us here

CapeSoft believes that if you aren't satisfied with our products, we would like them back - and we will refund you the money. This allows you to purchase our products with confidence. You can read our full refund policy here.