Directory Opus 6 for Windows Preview

Directory Opus 6 for Windows

Over the last 10 years, Directory Opus has become established as the most popular file management and directory utility on the Amiga. With the all new 225,030 lines of code for Directory Opus for Windows, the tradition of excellence in design and performance continues! Opus for Window provides a complete replacement for the traditional Windows Explorer file manager and harnesses the power of the Opus design like never before.

New Design: Directory Opus for Windows has been totally redesigned and rewritten from the ground up for Windows 95/98/NT and Windows 2000. The familiar Opus command sequences have been extended to provide over 100 commands. Many new revolutionary features for PC File Management include fully multi-threaded single or multiple file displays, 'dockable' file display listers, full drag and drop support, built-in FTP and archive support such as ZIP direct from within the program so you can, for example, copy directly from a remote FTP site to a local ZIP archive.

New Interface: More meaningful control and useful power for your PC desktop. The new interface communicates information more clearly, giving you simpler displays with greater control. New user configurable toolbars and pop-up menus put the power at your finger tips. You have complete control over fonts, colours and background images in listers and toolbars.

Unlimited Menus, Toolbars, and Docks: Opus supports unlimited toolbars for menus and command buttons. Toolbars can be attached to any side of a Lister display or can be independent free-floating 'docks'. Menus and toolbar commands support the traditional Opus command arguments or external programs for unlimited sequences. Toolbars can be defined as simple text buttons or you can use a wide variety of graphic images from many formats including original Amiga icons images including Glowicons and OS 3.5 style.

HotKeys: Opus supports user-configurable hotkeys, for use within Opus, and global hotkeys which are active anywhere within the system with full support for the Windows key.

Built-in Preferences Editors: Opus provides extensive multi-threaded preferences for full user-configurability. You can load, change, edit and save configuration features at any time, even while performing other tasks!

True Multitasking: Opus's object-orientated multi-threaded design gives you unheralded power to perform multiple operations at the same time - no more waiting while one job completes before you start another. No longer are Lister displays locked while performing tasks, once you have started an operation you can immediately move on the the next task. Archive one directory whilst de-archiving into another, all while you are copying files into yet another directory, independently and reliably.

Some of the powerful new features include:-

File Lister display supports either single (Opus 5) or dual file pane (Opus 4) styles with or without a Folder Tree.
Inbuilt command language with hundreds of extended commands including copy, move, rename (supports wildcards), delete, split and join (supports uuencode/uudecode), plus commands to play sounds and view images.
Lister display modes of traditional Explorer style (small or large Icons, list or details mode) plus a thumbnails views and an exclusive Opus Power mode which can be tailored to your needs.
Unlimited toolbars for buttons and menus - unlimited menu levels.
Floating toolbars allow you to set up your own start menus.
Fully configurable Status bar.
Opus extends the windows filetype system allowing you to configure context menu and drag and drop functions for any filetype.
Built-in image viewer supports gif, jpeg, tif, png, iff ilbm. Thumbnail preview mode in Listers supports all formats and can also display Amiga icons
Built-in sound player - Forget using over bloated Windows media players to just play a sound.
Fully configurable Lister display including background pictures in Listers, separately configured for the file display, tree, toolbars, menus, status bar, etc.
Special "shared" background picture mode lets you map one picture to the whole Lister, independent of the various elements within the Lister.
Save and load multiple Lister layouts.
Full drag and drop support.
Full clipboard support.
Built-in FTP and ZIP archive support. Synchronize local and remote FTP directories.
Hierarchical FTP address book.
Multiple-level undo.
Configurable SmartFavorites (tm) system.
Configurable Recent list.
Powerful find file function.
Copy files from one Lister to another, or between the panes of a dual-display Lister, or via drag and drop - it's your choice!
Full wildcard file selection plus regular expression.
Full file filtering for recursive operations (copy, delete, etc). with exclusive test mode
Supports multiple-monitor systems.
Configurable icon tray menu.
Amiga icon support includes old-style, NewIcon and OS3.5 Glowicons. Use all image formats including Amiga icons in toolbars and docks.

Current Status: Development of Directory Opus 6 for Windows is progressing very well! The project is at pre-release and extensive Beta testing is currently underway. It is taking longer than we had expected but the product has greatly exceeded our original design goals many fold. It is being hailed by Beta testers as an indispensable tool for Windows users. We expect the product to have passed our stringent quality control and testing procedures in the next month so we expect to have it for sale around end of May 2001. Cross-grade discounts will be available for registered Amiga Opus 5 users.

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