Design goals
- Modern and minimal interface that puts your files in the spotlight.
- Fast disk operations that deliver results in a split second.
- Simple yet versatile user experience through panels & tabs, inspector, command palette, GoTo window and much more.
- Personalized with your colors, hotkeys, layouts and default actions.
- Small & Portable program that fits on your floppy disk.
Development
File Pilot is written in C to be as close to OS and hardware as possible and to be sustainable and stable in the long term. It also doesn't use external libraries (with exceptions to stb_sprintf.h). This gives enormous flexibilty and freedom in experimenting with new features since everything can be hand tailored to specific needs of the program. It also often yields in better performance and smaller executable size because of less software bloat. In that respect, a lot of tech, codenamed Warp Engine :), has been developed alongside program itself:
- Platform layer (window support, file API, multithreading, input...)
- Custom OpenGL renderer
- Custom UI framework
- Memory primitives
- Basic containers
- UTF-8 Strings
- Math library
Current version is targeted at Windows 7 64-bit and above.