Simple file search?

[Nifflas]

I need an MMF2 app to search a single file (the entire file name is known) on a selected hard drive. I've tried MMF2Dev's search object, but it's built for searching for strings within text files, and I didn't manage to set it up for a normal quicker search that doesn't look within the file content.

It would be fantastic if someone have the time to show me an example of a simple file searcher.

[LB]

I don't understand if you want to search within a file or for a file using mmf2. Please be more or less specific.

[DJFuego]

can't you use the file object and do a "Does file exist" command?
if you know the path obviously.

[Brandon]

Do you mean like searching the contents of a file, like Binary?

[DJFuego]

Probably means search like the explorer search F3 (Dog)you will probably need to use a command line search like find or dir and pipe this to a text file
"dir *lost* /s>c:\mytxt.txt"

[Nifflas]

"I need an MMF2 app to search a single file" was supposed to be "I need an MMF2 app to search for a single file".

It's indeed like DJFuego describes. No wildcards, I'm trying to pull off a simple dir c:\file.txt /s

I'm not gonna use command lines though. My applications must never depend on command line stuff.

[Brandon]

Oh, you can do that with the Sphax File-Folder Object. I used that to make a file searcher, and even an iPod file editor.

[Nifflas]

At the moment I can't download it, but at the clickwiki it only appears to have an "Open OS Search" action, which is not quite what I'm after.

I'll try the extension later though, once the download server responds.

[Nifflas]

Found solution. This can be done with the list object and some really clever tricks which ChrisB showed me. I might post an example of it sooner or later.