An Rbase homebrew would taste much better! An enhancement to the chkfile function would be pretty cool.... Maybe something like... (CHKFILE(filename,filesize,fileextenstion,filedate)) and have it return a 0 for nof iles, or an integer for the number of matching files. Just my 2 cents worth. Mike PS: If you finish your dll, please let me know!
________________________________ From: Mike Byerley <[email protected]> To: RBASE-L Mailing List <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, December 19, 2011 3:33 PM Subject: [RBASE-L] - Re: Counting items in a folder My dll returns filecount 0 if there are no files in the directory. Jasons VBS uses the same APIs exposed through automation of the FileSystemObject to get the various file properties. My DLL supports all legal file wildcards. I don't think a plugin from RBTI will give them much bang for the buck since there are several homebrew workarounds for most of what you want. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Michael J. Sinclair" <[email protected]> To: "RBASE-L Mailing List" <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, December 19, 2011 3:07 PM Subject: [RBASE-L] - Re: Counting items in a folder One limitation of the chkfile function is that is does not support wild cards. Unless I know in advance the exact filename I am looking for, that "Will give unpredictable results". Can you think of a way that I could check to see if any file exists in a folder? Mike ________________________________ From: Mike Byerley <[email protected]> To: RBASE-L Mailing List <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, December 19, 2011 1:25 PM Subject: [RBASE-L] - Re: Counting items in a folder You can check for existance with RBase ChkFile function. Already have a 97% finished DLL that has a variety of File functions including FileSize, FileCount (based on one or a series of File extensions), FileVersionInfo and so on. Maybe in a few days or a week (depending on how much interruption holiday stuff does) I can get it done sufficiently to put in the wild for use. I do know it's been long enough since I worked on it that the source code doesn't match what I started in the Help File, but like I said, it's close to done. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Michael J. Sinclair" <[email protected]> To: "RBASE-L Mailing List" <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, December 19, 2011 12:08 PM Subject: [RBASE-L] - Re: Counting items in a folder Hi Mike, There are a few scenarios where this would be helpful. First checking for the existance of any file in the folder would be helpful for error handling. Sometimes files are created which should have a minmum size if the data is good. Corrupt data ends up creating a file that is smaller than a certain size. Being able to check for the existance of any files with a filesize that is smaller than a predetermined limit would help the application to call for help, call a different app, send an email etc. Looking for the existance of a certain number of files such as jpg files could trigger an app to create a single pdf file out of the group of jpg files. I would like to be able to count the number of files using various criteria and display them by changing the properties (color and text) of certain buttons that do things to the files, ie red for no files, green plus a number to indicate the presence of a certain number of files in a folder. Mike ________________________________ From: Mike Byerley <[email protected]> To: RBASE-L Mailing List <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, December 19, 2011 9:39 AM Subject: [RBASE-L] - Re: Counting items in a folder Mike, Could you elaborate a bit on what you are trying to do? Filesize or Filecount are pretty easy, but why do you want to search or display a file that is of a certain size? ----- Original Message ----- From: "Michael J. Sinclair" <[email protected]> To: "RBASE-L Mailing List" <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, December 18, 2011 8:38 AM Subject: [RBASE-L] - Counting items in a folder : Hi All, : How would you count the number of files in a folder and capture that value into a variable (assume no subfolders)? : (If there were a PLUGIN for that, it would be great if the PLUGIN had the ability to specify file characteristics that would limit the count, such as count only files that are a certain size or created on or after a certain date, had a certain extension, etc.) : Mike
