ExplorerUser Guide

Overview

Explorer is a support library that aids Alien-Factory in the development of other libraries, frameworks and applications. Though you are welcome to use it, you may find features are missing and the documentation incomplete.

Explorer is a file explorer application based on the Reflux framework. More than just an application, Explorer also provides Views and

Current features:

System file explorer
Fantom documentation viewer
A better web browser / html viewer
Fandoc file viewer
Text editor (borrowed from fluxText)
Syntax highlighting (uses syntax)

The small things that make me use it:

Quick view / edit toggling with F12
Easily show / hide hidden files
Text editor word wrapping (optional)
Address bar accepts pod names, e.g. afIoc

Install

Install Explorer with the Fantom Repository Manager ( fanr ):

C:\> fanr install -r http://repo.status302.com/fanr/ afExplorer

To use in a Fantom project, add a dependency to build.fan:

depends = ["sys 1.0", ..., "afExplorer 0.0"]

Documentation

Full API & fandocs are available on the Status302 repository.

Quick Start

Simply start Explorer from the command line:

C:\> fan afExplorer

[afIoc] Adding module definition for afReflux::RefluxModule
[afIoc] Adding module definition for afExplorer::ExplorerModule
   ___    __                 _____        _
  / _ |  / /_____  _____    / ___/__  ___/ /_________  __ __
 / _  | / // / -_|/ _  /===/ __// _ \/ _/ __/ _  / __|/ // /
/_/ |_|/_//_/\__|/_//_/   /_/   \_,_/__/\__/____/_/   \_, /
                                     Explorer v0.0.2 /___/

IoC Registry built in 216ms and started up in 10ms

Example Screenshot

Explorer may optionally be started with a list of URIs to be opened up in tabs:

C:\> fan afExplorer C:\Temp

C:\> fan afExplorer http://www.fantomfactory.org/ 

C:\> fan afExplorer afIoc::Registry

Release Notes

v0.0.2

New: Initial release.