Easy to use file finding dialog

Introduction

CFindFileDlg is a simple dialog class that you can use to search hard drives (or floppy, or network, or CDROM drives) for files. It supports wildcards, and recursive folder searching, allows you to end the search after the first file is found, comes standard with a cancel button, simple animated icon and is fully multi-threaded.

Integrating CFindFileDlg into your own application

1. Add these files to your project:
   • FileFindDlg.cpp, FileFindDlg.h
   • FileFinder.cpp, FileFinder.h
2. Copy the IDD_FIND_FILE dialog from the demo resource file to your project
3. Copy the 12 animation icons (IDI_ICON1 -> IDI_ICON12) from the demo resource to your project
4. #include "FindFileDlg.h" in the file where you want to use the dialog.

Using CFindFileDlg

// declare a search dialog
CFindFileDlg dlg;

dlg.m_csRootFolder = "C:\\";      // root folder of search
dlg.m_csFindFile = "file.ext";  // file to search for
dlg.m_bRecurse = true;          // search subfolders

dlg.m_bFindSingleFile = false;  // find multiple files

// these next three options aren't strictly necessary here, because
// we've already specified a root folder. if we left the root folder
// blank (""), the code will search drives A through Z. 
//
// the options below allow you to exclude certain types of drives

dlg.m_bSearchNetworkDrives = false;     // ignore network drives
dlg.m_bSearchRemovableDrives = false;   // ignore removable drives
dlg.m_bSearchCDROMDrives = false;       // ignore CD-ROM drives

// do it. 
int nResponse = dlg.DoModal();

// done
if (nResponse == IDOK)
{
    // success!!!
    // dlg.m_csaFoundFiles contains the files that matched our search criteria
}
else if (nResponse == IDCANCEL)
{
    // operation failed or was cancelled
}

History

20 Mar 2001 - udpated zip

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