Ability to restrict Explorer pane to a single directory

[smith.j.chris]

Overview

In lieu of visual-studio type project management, the explorer window within textpad could be restricted to a subdirectory for working on a project.

Reasoning

When working on projects with deep directory heirarchies such as c:\Users\JoeBloggs\Documents\Projects\Project1\PublicHtml, the explorer navigation window is quite deep with 6 levels of tree nesting before you actually reach the project root. The root of the tree could be set to the PublicHtml directory so that it acts as a project-specific scope tree.


Implementation

To enable directory restriction:

1. Right click a directory from within the explorer pane.
2. A menu option would be present to "restrict explorer view to this directory"
3. This will result in the right clicked directory restricting view to the project root.

To disable directory restriction:

1. Right click any tree node within the explorer pane.
2. A menu option would be presented to "reset directory restriction"
3. This will result in the tree showing the entire filesystem again.