You are quite welcome, but only my grandkids friends call me "Mr." ;-)
Mike ----- Original Message ----- From: "md" <[email protected]> To: "RBASE-L Mailing List" <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, December 27, 2011 1:01 AM Subject: [RBASE-L] - Re: Counting items in a folder : Thank you Mr. Byerley. I do not have an immediate need but the : "GetFileCount" may come in very handy in the future. : Manuel de Aguiar : M|D Enterprises : : -----Original Message----- : From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Mike Byerley : Sent: Friday, December 23, 2011 1:20 PM : To: RBASE-L Mailing List : Subject: [RBASE-L] - Re: Counting items in a folder : : : Mike, etal, : : The DLL and Helpfile are in the wild at: : http://www.byerley.net/FileUtils.zip : : There are Six function that perform file or directory actions and one : function for changing the delimit character(s) for the functions life in the : Current Session. The helpfile is in pretty good shape. Takes almost as : long to do a helpfile as write a program I think.. : : The functions: : : STDCALL function 'GetFileAttr' (ptr TEXT (256)) : TEXT (64) : STDCALL function 'GetFileCount' (ptr TEXT (64), ptr TEXT (256)) : Integer : STDCALL function 'GetFileInfo' (ptr TEXT (64), ptr TEXT (256)) : TEXT : (256) : STDCALL function 'GetFileList' (ptr text (64), ptr text (256)) : NOTE : STDCALL function 'GetFileSize' (ptr TEXT (256)) : TEXT (64) : STDCALL function 'GetVerInfo' (ptr TEXT (64), ptr TEXT (256)) : TEXT : (1500) : and the delimit function: : STDCALL function 'SetDelimiter' (ptr text (32)) : text (32) : : There is an RMD file for each function demoing its useage. : : HTH : : : : : : : ----- Original Message ----- : : From: "Michael J. Sinclair" <[email protected]> : To: "RBASE-L Mailing List" <[email protected]> : Sent: Monday, December 19, 2011 3:45 PM : Subject: [RBASE-L] - Re: Counting items in a folder : : :: 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 : :
