Re: [Lazarus] Best examples of cross platform visual file or folder search application?
Thank you for the replies. I think what I was getting at is not the code related to such a program, but the user interface design and popularity of such a program. I think most of you remember Microsoft implemented a file search into XP featuring an animate dog and a small form: https://i.stack.imgur.com/vZbcr.jpg But since Vista it's been replaced with a simplified edit box and many search options are either hidden or harder to use. I've already written a working cross platform search program (image of it below), but don't understand why I can find this type of user interface design in any current desktop OS or in the form of a tiny popular 3rd party program. Is it that users don't want a file / folder search form, or that at some point an OS dropped this kind of functionality and everyone else followed suite by copying them and removing file / folder search forms? Do you people prefer no file / folder search forms in your desktop OS? https://cache.getlazarus.org/images/filesearch.png -- ___ lazarus mailing list lazarus@lists.lazarus-ide.org https://lists.lazarus-ide.org/listinfo/lazarus
Re: [Lazarus] Best examples of cross platform visual file or folder search application?
On Thu, Sep 12, 2019 at 8:01 PM Graeme Geldenhuys via lazarus wrote: > > On 22/08/2019 3:20 am, Anthony Walter via lazarus wrote: > > Can anyone tell me if there are any popular minimal programs which allow > > users to search for files or folders on their computer using wildcard > http://svn.code.sf.net/p/flyingsheep/code/trunk/MijnLib/enumdirs.pas -- Bart -- ___ lazarus mailing list lazarus@lists.lazarus-ide.org https://lists.lazarus-ide.org/listinfo/lazarus
Re: [Lazarus] Best examples of cross platform visual file or folder search application?
On 22/08/2019 3:20 am, Anthony Walter via lazarus wrote: > Can anyone tell me if there are any popular minimal programs which allow > users to search for files or folders on their computer using wildcard I can think of a few, though the SearchRec is not hard to use at all, so is very easy to knock up exactly what you need. Anyway, take a look at these: * DoubleCmd (Double Commander) project * See the "Iterator Pattern" article I wrote. You can very quickly adapt the regex iterator by feeding it SearchRec results and then filter out the output. * In the fpGUI "core" code there is a cross-platform file searching class with filtering support. It is used to feed results into fpGUI's File Open/Save dialog. I'm sure there are many more such examples. Regards, Graeme -- fpGUI Toolkit - a cross-platform GUI toolkit using Free Pascal http://fpgui.sourceforge.net/ My public PGP key: http://tinyurl.com/graeme-pgp -- ___ lazarus mailing list lazarus@lists.lazarus-ide.org https://lists.lazarus-ide.org/listinfo/lazarus
