> On Wed, 02 Jul 2003 , Kurt Griffin wrote:
> Lingo alone can't search a hard drive. You could use another xtra, like
> fileXtra3 (free, but a whole lot of effort to use for this) or masterApp.
> But, I think the Buddy way is the best way - baOpenFile("path") is short and
> sweet - it does all of the "app finding" for you.
well, you can search a hard drive with lingo alone, although it's definitely not
be the fastest
way to do it. for example try:
search("AcroRd32.exe", "C:\Program Files")
with the following recursive handler (quick and dirty, windows only):
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on search what, where
i=0
repeat while true
i=i+1
fn = getNthFileNameInFolder(where, i)
if fn = "" then exit repeat
if fn contains what then put where&"\"&fn -- do something usefull with
search result here
search(what,where&"\"&fn) -- maybe fn is a subfolder?
end repeat
end
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valentin
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