This project is a simulation of basic version of Windows Explorer with Open, Copy, Move and Delete operations. This project considers the lack of feature in Windows Explorer to select files from various locations and perform operatins on them, and resolves it. The idea of this project can be extended to perform many other operations like copy, performing many operations on a single or multiple files located in different folders.
i) To run this application, JRE 9.0.1 is required.
ii) This project is made using Eclipse Neon.2 Release (4.6.2) with e(fx)clipse plug-in installed. However any IDE with JavaFx support can be used to run this project.
i) Eclipse Neon can be downloaded from https://www.eclipse.org
ii) e(fx)clipse can be installed by following instructions from https://www.eclipse.org/efxclipse/install.html
i) Go to the homepage of this repository using this link - https://github.com/gowrusreevathsa/JavaFx_Based_FileManager
ii) Click on Clone or Download button present on the screen and select Download ZIP to download a .ZIP compressed file of the project.
iii) Extract the compressed file to a folder of your choice.
iv) Import the project to an IDE of your choice.
i) Main.java file contains code to start the application.
ii) MainController.java contains all the code required to connect FXML items and specify their operations.
iii) Main.fxml contains code to specify items and their locations relative to each other.
iv) FolderName.fxml contains code to specify items required to give a name to new folder.
v) Make necessary changes and add code to extend capabilities of the application.