Overview
How
does SOCKShell help me?
Analysing
Pascal source code
How
can I find out more about SOCKShell?
The Windows
Explorer's File menu and context menu (the menu
displayed when you right click on an item in the
Explorer window) display the options that operate on the
selected object. These operations include the standard
Cut, Copy, Delete and Rename operations if they are
appropriate, and will often include other operations
which are specific to the type of object that was
clicked on.
Windows provides a way for
programmers to add options to these menus for their own
programs, but doing so is not for the faint hearted. The
purpose of SOCKShell, therefore, is to add some simple
and generally useful options to the context menu, and
also to allow the user to simply and quickly add and
configure context menu options of their
own.
SOCKShell gives you complete control over
the layout and content of its context submenu, and you
can even choose where menu-separators are placed
utilising the flexible configuration program. Its
easy-to-use interface lets you build your own menu that
adds links to your programs, files and their content,
with no reduction in performance or functionality of the
standard context menu.
The predefined
options
Examples of the new options provided
by default include 'Edit with Notepad' and 'Edit with
Write', both useful for quickly examining documents or
text files without loading a full word processor, and
'Command Prompt here' to open a Windows Command Prompt
in the currently highlighted folder.
The
predefined options automatically added to the SOCKShell
context menu include:
These options are all enabled
by default at installation time so appear on all context
menus, but they can each be configured or disabled from
the preferences screen. To get up and running quickly,
open up the preferences screen and go from
there!
Ease of use
Simple help tips
are automatically displayed throughout SOCKShell, and
general help is always available by clicking on the Help
button or pressing F1.
A pop up window containing
context sensitive help, also known as "What's this?"
help, on each item is available by right clicking on the
item.
Finally, you can enter context sensitive
help mode by clicking on the ? button in the top right
hand corner of the window or by pressing the Shift F1
keys. In this mode the mouse cursor changes to a
question mark, and clicking on any item will display a
pop up window containing help information about that
specific item.
You can save
time
How many times have you wanted to set
the date, time or attributes of a group of files to the
same value? With SOCKShell you can instantly set any or
all of them, along with the contents of all the
subfolders if required.
How many times have you
wanted to take a quick look inside a file without
waiting for its associated application to load? With
SOCKShell you can instantly edit any file with Notepad,
Wordpad or an application of your own
choosing.
How many times would typing a simple
DOS command be easier than wading through multiple
dialogs and menus? With SOCKShell you can instantly open
a Command Prompt (DOS box) in the selected
folder.
How many times have you found the file
you were looking for, but then had to separately cut and
paste its path and its name in order to pass its
location to another application? With SOCKShell you can
instantly copy its full path and name ready for pasting
into another application.
All these operations
and more are only two clicks away with
SOCKShell!
You can personalise Windows
Explorer
By adding your own options you can
quickly and easily personalise the Explorer context menu
and add significant functionality to the standard
context menu.
For example, you can easily add an
option to send an email with the selected file as an
attachment, or an option to edit the selected image file
with an alternative image editor.
Delphi
programmers can analyse their
productivity
The 'Analyse Pascal source code'
options detailed below allows you to quickly and easily
analyse an individual Pascal source file or a whole
project on a regular basis in order to monitor its
progress.
Of particular
interest to Delphi programmers is the 'Analyse Pascal
source code' option, which will process a single file or
folder, or a whole directory tree, and produce a report
of the total number of characters, lines, blank lines,
code lines, comment lines, classes, functions and
procedures.
This information is automatically
copied to the Windows Clipboard in a variety of formats,
allowing you to paste it directly into another
application or document such as a spreadsheet, word
processing document or a
presentation.
View
some screen shots of SOCKShell in action
Read
more about the predefined options
Read the
Frequently Asked Questions
Download
SOCKShell now and try it for yourself
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