Folder Navigation

Bread Crumbs Control

Bread Crumbs is a navigation control for folders used on many places in Embird Next to select required file folder. It allows to select storage and browse through its folder structure.

This control contains path of folders from a root of volume (drive) to the current folder. The path is made of separate elements called bread crumbs. Each crumb acts like a button allowing fast browsing and also some operations with folders.

Following diagram illustrates layout of this control.

Button for accessing the pop-Up Menu with Folder Commands . Hitting this button invokes the pop-up menu with common folder operations. Please read Pop-Up Menu chapter to learn more about pop-up menus.

If there is a separate folder list used along with the breadcrumbs control, the pop-up menu button may reside in the folder list.

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Repository . This button invokes list of accessible built-in, external and cloud drives (volumes) and some most common storage locations like Downloads folder, Pictures folder, etc. Use this list to select the storage location where you want to navigate.

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Root . This button represents the root folder of the location

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Path Separator . Buttons of this kind separate respective folders of the path. Click separator button to display list of the sub-folders belonging to the parent folder. Select sub-folder from this list if you want to navigate deeper into the folder structure. Selected sub-folder becomes a last part of the path, i.e. a current folder. This is how path of folders (bread crumbs) is build. If folder has no sub-folders, there is no Path Separator button behind this folder button.

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Folder . Each folder in the path is represented by a button with the folder name on it. Click the folder button if you want to navigate up to this folder. Clicked folder becomes the current folder.

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Current Folder . Current folder is the last one in the path. Click on the Current Folder button invokes a menu with commands for deleting, renaming, adding folder to the favourites , and adding new sub-folder.

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