Hey guys, i had an idea and wanted to if it sounded plausable before i went into that crazy thing called development. The windows search bar onlly allows for 255 characters in the search box, making searchinf for large amounts of files much more difficult.
Is it possible to have a form that pulls the name of a file from a field and uses that name to search for it on a folder in your hard disk (which the user specifies using the "Open File" http://www.palmos.com/dev/tech/webclipping/tutorials/images/qabwin02.gif window, built into windows), similar to using the defualt built-in search tht windows uses?
To elaborate on the usefullness of this idea, if i need to search for 40 of these files at once, which the names of the file are pulled from 40 records.
The file names are numbers, always 8 didigts long, used to number images scanned in a directory. The directory can contain more than 2000 images, and searching for 40 of them one by one is a tedious task. Furthermore, the Windows search bar can only handle 26 of these files names, since they are seprated by commas, so if there were ever 400 images that needed to be moved, it would still be a tedious/time consuming task.
Explanation aside,what I'm asking is if it is possible to make a listbox (or an unlimited length textbox) of sorts, that has no limits to the amount of files names it can hold, that can retrieve the file names from a field in a table and then promt the user for the location to search in, and then either:
promt the user where to move the selected files to (another folder using the same pop up box shown in the link above) and move them for you.
or
pop open the folder only showing the selected files specified on the form.
Is this possible? or is there a simple application that can do this for me if i supply the directory and the file names in a text format?
please give any thoughts or ideas, thanks guys
Is it possible to have a form that pulls the name of a file from a field and uses that name to search for it on a folder in your hard disk (which the user specifies using the "Open File" http://www.palmos.com/dev/tech/webclipping/tutorials/images/qabwin02.gif window, built into windows), similar to using the defualt built-in search tht windows uses?
To elaborate on the usefullness of this idea, if i need to search for 40 of these files at once, which the names of the file are pulled from 40 records.
The file names are numbers, always 8 didigts long, used to number images scanned in a directory. The directory can contain more than 2000 images, and searching for 40 of them one by one is a tedious task. Furthermore, the Windows search bar can only handle 26 of these files names, since they are seprated by commas, so if there were ever 400 images that needed to be moved, it would still be a tedious/time consuming task.
Explanation aside,what I'm asking is if it is possible to make a listbox (or an unlimited length textbox) of sorts, that has no limits to the amount of files names it can hold, that can retrieve the file names from a field in a table and then promt the user for the location to search in, and then either:
promt the user where to move the selected files to (another folder using the same pop up box shown in the link above) and move them for you.
or
pop open the folder only showing the selected files specified on the form.
Is this possible? or is there a simple application that can do this for me if i supply the directory and the file names in a text format?
please give any thoughts or ideas, thanks guys
