A User Interface Control/Component by Softel vdm, Inc.

SftDirectory V2.5

SftDirectory is an excellent tool for all your file and folder views in your applications, similar to Windows Explorer, with many features not usually found in file and folder controls based on Microsoft technologies. Includes treeview, listbox and combo box style views of folders and files, from single column to multi-column displays of folder attributes, with single and multiple selection support.

SftDirectory is an ActiveX control for the Windows™ operating system, offering tree control and combo box style views of folder lists, similar to Windows Explorer.

• TreeView style and ComboBox style folder displays


• Optional file displays


• Single and multiple selection


• Full context menu support


• Support for application actions on folders


• Optional display of hidden folders


• Optional expand/collapse buttons for expandable folders


• Combo box style with user-resizable drop down using the sizing grip


• Combo box style with optimal drop down width


• Application defined root folder and initially selected folder


• Application controlled double-click action


• Optional in-place editing of folder names to rename folders


• Fully automatic drag & drop support similar to Windows Explorer or completely interceptable and customizable by application


• Optional auto-refresh of folder contents as system-wide changes occur


• Customizable column headers


• Resizable columns with automatic optimal width


• Reorderable columns


• Column sorting


• Automatic save/restore of column and sort order settings


• Customizable colors


• Optional grid lines


• Optional tree lines


• Right-To-Left Reading support for Hebrew and Arabic Windows versions


• Expand/collapse folder branches under application control


• Registration-free installation on Windows XP (and better) for true XCOPY deployment


• Dual interfaces throughout for optimum performance


• ATL based control, no MFC DLLs or other DLLs required


• UNICODE support


• Not based on Common Controls or Windows Explorer

All of these features in one single control, with one single distributable file (royalty-free of course).

Use this ActiveX control with all popular languages, such as .NET, VB, C#, Visual C++, Visual Basic 6, Delphi, Access and many more...

Technical Information

Component Type - Contains the following types of components...

• .Net Winforms Control  • ActiveX Custom Control (OCX)  • ActiveX Component (in process, DLL)

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