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"What's it all about?"
File Search is another one of those great, wonderful projects for my mentorship! This one is actually the start of something new for me at my mentorship-- something useful! Along with a freakin' GUI (Graphical User Interface). File Search is a simple file searching utility. It operates almost exactly like the Windows search utility except that you can specify which directory to start in and it returns the results in a nifty little tree. This project has given me a lot of grief, and I'm actually not even done with it, yet, but it is getting to the final stages-- printing the results. The things that it has to do are this:» Allow searches with no more of 32 characters that have '*' and '?' in them as wildcards.
» Allow more than one search in one program execution
» Allow the user to select any drive in C:\ to start searching in each subdir therein
» Display the results in a tree with fully expanded tree with no closed folders.
» Print three different ways: alphabetically with no directory information, in a higherarchy and just as the tree control appears.
Beware! This will actually print! It will display a "Do you want to print this many pages" dialog, so make sure to press 'No' unless you want an alphabetical list of all the results given. The other printing ways aren't done yet, and the only one I've really (theoretically) figured out is the alphabetically. If someone gets the nerve to print 70 pages of results or something, they should email me and tell me if it worked properly... ish. The file names, on the print-out, at this point, will just get truncated if they're too long, which is a bug I still need to work out.
"Well, how far are you on it?"
Primes Project Status:File Search is about 70% complete
Known Bugs:
» The alphabetical printing does not wrap words around like it should.
» The other methods of printing don't exist.
» The searching is blocking, and you can't really play with the window while it's searching or buildig the result tree.
"Fine, now download it!"
So I've interested you, huh? Well, I think that you'll need some MSVC7 DLLs or it will not work. I'll have to find those and I'll post them here.File Search: 61.4 KB