Re: [Lazarus] Feedback requested: File Search, a visual file search utility

2019-09-25 Thread Bart via lazarus
On Wed, Sep 25, 2019 at 7:51 PM Anthony Walter via lazarus wrote: > Thanks. I'll look into TMaskList. I assume you mean this bit of code? > > https://github.com/alrieckert/lazarus/blob/master/components/lazutils/masks.pas Yes, it's in the masks unit. Bart --

Re: [Lazarus] Feedback requested: File Search, a visual file search utility

2019-09-25 Thread Denis Kozlov via lazarus
Hi Anthony, It looks great! If you were looking for new features, please consider the following features: 1. Show the snippets from the file where the content was found, with some context lines around the matches. 2. Allow specifying regular expressions for content search (optionally).

Re: [Lazarus] Feedback requested: File Search, a visual file search utility

2019-09-25 Thread Anthony Walter via lazarus
Thanks. I'll look into TMaskList. I assume you mean this bit of code? https://github.com/alrieckert/lazarus/blob/master/components/lazutils/masks.pas I am not sure how much this slows things down, and the checking if a file has already been added only happen on per directory basis, meaning the

Re: [Lazarus] Feedback requested: File Search, a visual file search utility

2019-09-25 Thread Bart via lazarus
On Wed, Sep 25, 2019 at 7:38 PM Bart wrote: > An alternative would be to use a TMaskList and use it's MatchesMaks > method (and search the folder with AllFilesMaks). As you can see, my fingers struggle with the keyboard ;-) Everywhere it says *maks, you should read *mask. -- Bart --

Re: [Lazarus] Feedback requested: File Search, a visual file search utility

2019-09-25 Thread Bart via lazarus
On Wed, Sep 25, 2019 at 7:33 AM Anthony Walter via lazarus wrote: > The File Search utility is a stand alone tool for Mac, Windows, and Linux to > search for files using a variety of criteria including containing text, file > size, > and file dates. First of all: NICE! You asked foor