"Patrick Pirtle" <p**@skilling.com> wrote in message
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> I've written an app that does nothing more than provide
> me with a treeview showing files of various formats in
> a folder tree.  These files may be PDFs, ASCII text,
> HTML, mail messages, etc.  What I'd like to do is to
> add some sort of a search function to my app.
>
> Is it likely I can find some sort of search control to add,
> or would I have to write something on my own (the
> latter being daunting to me, to say the least)?
>
> TIA for any suggestions or help.
> --------------------------------------------------------
> The impossible just takes a little longer

> "Patrick Pirtle" <p**@skilling.com> wrote in message
> news:OkLxy%23ZgFHA.1048@TK2MSFTNGP14.phx.gbl...
>> I've written an app that does nothing more than provide
>> me with a treeview showing files of various formats in
>> a folder tree.  These files may be PDFs, ASCII text,
>> HTML, mail messages, etc.  What I'd like to do is to
>> add some sort of a search function to my app.
>>
>> Is it likely I can find some sort of search control to add,
>> or would I have to write something on my own (the
>> latter being daunting to me, to say the least)?
>>
>> TIA for any suggestions or help.
>> --------------------------------------------------------
>> The impossible just takes a little longer
>
> I've never heard of any such control... except, maybe a webbrowser
> control that points to Google or something.
>
> So, you want to search... search the drive? search the files for
> text? More info required.

> "Patrick Pirtle" <p**@skilling.com> wrote in message
> news:OWBpEEagFHA.2700@TK2MSFTNGP15.phx.gbl...
>> What I'd like to do is search the files that are populating
>> my treeview for text.
>> --------------------------------------------------------
>> The impossible just takes a little longer
>
> That'll require code <g> All of the code will be up to you.
> Basically, since they're in the tree, you know where the files are
> located on the hard-drive. Then, it should just be a matter of
> opening each one and searching. Problem is, PDFs and others are
> probably stored in binary and/or encrypted formats. That's a whole
> bunch more code <g> It may even require that you buy the SDK from
> whatever vendor you're supporting.

> Ken Halter wrote:
>> "Patrick Pirtle" <p**@skilling.com> wrote in message
>> news:OkLxy%23ZgFHA.1048@TK2MSFTNGP14.phx.gbl...
>>> I've written an app that does nothing more than provide
>>> me with a treeview showing files of various formats in
>>> a folder tree.  These files may be PDFs, ASCII text,
>>> HTML, mail messages, etc.  What I'd like to do is to
>>> add some sort of a search function to my app.
>>>
>>> Is it likely I can find some sort of search control to add,
>>> or would I have to write something on my own (the
>>> latter being daunting to me, to say the least)?
>>>
>>> TIA for any suggestions or help.
>>> --------------------------------------------------------
>>> The impossible just takes a little longer
>>
>> I've never heard of any such control... except, maybe a webbrowser
>> control that points to Google or something.
>>
>> So, you want to search... search the drive? search the files for
>> text? More info required.
>
>

"Patrick Pirtle" <p**@skilling.com> wrote
>
> I'd like to be able to search for "treeview OR tree-view" and
> have it populate a listbox with files containing either of these
> words in the file content.
>
> I'd heard of GREP, but have never used it.  Google
> returns a BUNCH of hits, so I'll be happily searching
> through these today.  Sounds like something that I
> would expect to shell to (?) in order to output a text
> file report, which I could then parse.
>
> Thanks, again, for the help.

"Larry Serflaten" <serfla***@usinternet.com> wrote in message
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>
> "Patrick Pirtle" <p**@skilling.com> wrote
>>
>> I'd like to be able to search for "treeview OR tree-view" and
>> have it populate a listbox with files containing either of these
>> words in the file content.
>>
>> I'd heard of GREP, but have never used it.  Google
>> returns a BUNCH of hits, so I'll be happily searching
>> through these today.  Sounds like something that I
>> would expect to shell to (?) in order to output a text
>> file report, which I could then parse.
>>
>> Thanks, again, for the help.
>
>
> Yeah, something like that should be possible, for an example,
> launch the command processor and navigate to a directory that
> has a few forms in it.  Then try this line to list all VB modules that
> contain the word "Dim"
>
>         for %f in (*.frm; *.bas; *.cls) do find /c "Dim" %f
>
> To send the results of just the form files to a file:
>
>         for %f in (*.frm) do find /c "Dim" %f >> found.txt
>
> OK, if that works as planned, you can call that from VB using:
>
>
> Private Sub Command1_Click()
> Dim cmd As String
>
>   cmd = "for %f in (*.frm; *.bas; *.cls) do find /c ""Dim"" %f >> found.txt"
>
>   ' Changing current DIR for ease of use....
>   ChDrive "E:"
>   ChDir "E:\Projects\VB Development\Source Code"
>   Shell Environ("COMSPEC") & " /c " & cmd, vbHide
>
> End Sub
>
>
> If your file names have spaces in their names, then surround the final
> %f with quotes:
>
>   cmd = "for %f in (*.frm; *.bas; *.cls) do find /c ""Dim"" ""%f"" >> found.txt"
>
> That should give you a file you can then read in and parse....
>
> A bit of a run-around, but its easier than writing the code yourself!  If you
> are familiar with regular expressions, you might also look into the FindStr
> command, otherwise using that once for "treeview" and again for "tree-view"
> should get you the desired results.
>
> HTH
> LFS
>
>
>
>
>
>
>

"Lance" <nu***@business.com> wrote in message
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> very clever!  this of course doesn't work on pdf files, though.
>
> lance
>
> "Larry Serflaten" <serfla***@usinternet.com> wrote in message
> news:etHJsjkgFHA.2644@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
> >
> > "Patrick Pirtle" <p**@skilling.com> wrote
> >>
> >> I'd like to be able to search for "treeview OR tree-view" and
> >> have it populate a listbox with files containing either of these
> >> words in the file content.
> >>
> >> I'd heard of GREP, but have never used it.  Google
> >> returns a BUNCH of hits, so I'll be happily searching
> >> through these today.  Sounds like something that I
> >> would expect to shell to (?) in order to output a text
> >> file report, which I could then parse.
> >>
> >> Thanks, again, for the help.
> >
> >
> > Yeah, something like that should be possible, for an example,
> > launch the command processor and navigate to a directory that
> > has a few forms in it.  Then try this line to list all VB modules that
> > contain the word "Dim"
> >
> >         for %f in (*.frm; *.bas; *.cls) do find /c "Dim" %f
> >
> > To send the results of just the form files to a file:
> >
> >         for %f in (*.frm) do find /c "Dim" %f >> found.txt
> >
> > OK, if that works as planned, you can call that from VB using:
> >
> >
> > Private Sub Command1_Click()
> > Dim cmd As String
> >
> >   cmd = "for %f in (*.frm; *.bas; *.cls) do find /c ""Dim"" %f >>
found.txt"
> >
> >   ' Changing current DIR for ease of use....
> >   ChDrive "E:"
> >   ChDir "E:\Projects\VB Development\Source Code"
> >   Shell Environ("COMSPEC") & " /c " & cmd, vbHide
> >
> > End Sub
> >
> >
> > If your file names have spaces in their names, then surround the final
> > %f with quotes:
> >
> >   cmd = "for %f in (*.frm; *.bas; *.cls) do find /c ""Dim"" ""%f"" >>
found.txt"
> >
> > That should give you a file you can then read in and parse....
> >
> > A bit of a run-around, but its easier than writing the code yourself!
If you
> > are familiar with regular expressions, you might also look into the
FindStr
> > command, otherwise using that once for "treeview" and again for
"tree-view"
> > should get you the desired results.
> >
> > HTH
> > LFS
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
>

> Patrick,
> Check out www.isedquickpdf.com. I haven't really used it, but seems
> like you can do pretty much anything on .pdfs from VB.

"Patrick Pirtle" wrote:

> I've written an app that does nothing more than provide
> me with a treeview showing files of various formats in
> a folder tree.  These files may be PDFs, ASCII text,
> HTML, mail messages, etc.  What I'd like to do is to
> add some sort of a search function to my app.
>
> Is it likely I can find some sort of search control to add,
> or would I have to write something on my own (the
> latter being daunting to me, to say the least)?
>
> TIA for any suggestions or help.
> --------------------------------------------------------
> The impossible just takes a little longer
>
>
>