Find a file / Search Window

[Jhd.Honza]

Hi everybody!

how could I search trough drivers to find any file? (like the Start->Find->File ...is any way to run this window?)




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Thanks,
John, 14 years old

[Civil78]

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Create a new project and new module called module1 and put this code
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Option Explicit

Public Const sFileSizeBytes = "###,###,###,###,###,###,##0 \b\y\t\e\s"
Public Const sFmtResult = "###,###,###,##0 \f\o\u\n\d"
Public Const sFileCount = "###,###,###,##0 f\i\l\e\s\ \f\o\u\n\d"
Public Const sFolderCount = "###,###,###,##0 f\o\l\d\e\r\s \f\o\u\n\d"

Public Const MAXDWORD = &HFFFFFFF
Public Const MAX_PATH = 260
Public Const INVALID_HANDLE_VALUE = -1
Public Const FILE_ATTRIBUTE_ARCHIVE = &H20
Public Const FILE_ATTRIBUTE_COMPRESSED = &H800
Public Const FILE_ATTRIBUTE_DIRECTORY = &H10
Public Const FILE_ATTRIBUTE_HIDDEN = &H2
Public Const FILE_ATTRIBUTE_NORMAL = &H80
Public Const FILE_ATTRIBUTE_READONLY = &H1
Public Const FILE_ATTRIBUTE_TEMPORARY = &H100
Public Const FILE_ATTRIBUTE_FLAGS = FILE_ATTRIBUTE_ARCHIVE Or _
FILE_ATTRIBUTE_HIDDEN Or _
FILE_ATTRIBUTE_NORMAL Or _
FILE_ATTRIBUTE_READONLY

Public Const DRIVE_UNKNOWNTYPE = 1
Public Const DRIVE_REMOVABLE = 2
Public Const DRIVE_FIXED = 3
Public Const DRIVE_REMOTE = 4
Public Const DRIVE_CDROM = 5
Public Const DRIVE_RAMDISK = 6

Public Type FILETIME
dwLowDateTime As Long
dwHighDateTime As Long
End Type

Public Type WIN32_FIND_DATA
dwFileAttributes As Long
ftCreationTime As FILETIME
ftLastAccessTime As FILETIME
ftLastWriteTime As FILETIME
nFileSizeHigh As Long
nFileSizeLow As Long
dwReserved0 As Long
dwReserved1 As Long
cFileName As String * MAX_PATH
cAlternate As String * 14
End Type

'the custom-made UDT for searching
Public Type FILE_PARAMS
bRecurse As Boolean 'set True to perform a recursive search
bList As Boolean 'set True to add results to listbox
bFound As Boolean 'set only with SearchTreeForFile methods
sFileRoot As String 'search starting point, ie c:\, c:\winnt\
sFileNameExt As String 'filenae/filespec to locate, ie *.dll, notepad.exe
sResult As String 'path to file. Set only with SearchTreeForFile methods
nFileCount As Long 'total file count matching filespec. Set in FindXXX only
nFileSize As Double 'total file size matching filespec. Set in FindXXX only
End Type

Public Declare Function FindClose Lib "kernel32" _
(ByVal hFindFile As Long) As Long

Public Declare Function FindFirstFile Lib "kernel32" _
Alias "FindFirstFileA" _
(ByVal lpFileName As String, _
lpFindFileData As WIN32_FIND_DATA) As Long

Public Declare Function FindNextFile Lib "kernel32" _
Alias "FindNextFileA" _
(ByVal hFindFile As Long, _
lpFindFileData As WIN32_FIND_DATA) As Long

Public Declare Function SearchTreeForFile Lib "imagehlp.dll" _
(ByVal sFileRoot As String, _
ByVal InputPathName As String, _
ByVal OutputPathBuffer As String) As Boolean

Public Declare Function GetLogicalDriveStrings Lib "kernel32" Alias "GetLogicalDriveStringsA" _
(ByVal nBufferLength As Long, ByVal lpBuffer As String) As Long

Public Declare Function GetDriveType Lib "kernel32" Alias "GetDriveTypeA" _
(ByVal nDrive As String) As Long

'--end block--'


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Now in a form put this code and create 3 controls

1) Commandbutton called command1
2) ListBox called list1 3) TextBox called text1
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Option Explicit
Private Sub Command1_Click()

Dim FP As FILE_PARAMS

Call DisplayInit


'***************************************************
' In this variable put the fileroot and the filename
'***************************************************


With FP
.sFileRoot = "C:\windows"
.sFileNameExt = "command.com"
.bRecurse = 1
.bList = 1
End With

Call SearchForFiles(FP)
Call DisplayResults(FP)

End Sub

Private Sub DisplayInit()
'common routine to initialize display

Text1.Text = "Working ..."
Text1.Refresh

List1.Clear
List1.Visible = False

End Sub


Private Sub DisplayResults(FP As FILE_PARAMS)

'a common routine to display search results

'this defaults to show the size and count
'containing in the FP type members, but if
'FP.sResult is filled (from the Drive and
'System search methods), that is shown instead.

Text1.Text = Format$(FP.nFileCount, sFmtResult) & _
" (" & FP.sFileNameExt & ")"

If FP.sResult > "" Then
Text1.Text = "found: " & FP.bFound
End If
List1.Visible = True
End Sub

Private Function QualifyPath(sPath As String) As String '

'assures that a passed path ends in a slash

If Right$(sPath, 1) <> "\" Then
QualifyPath = sPath & "\"
Else: QualifyPath = sPath
End If

End Function

Public Function TrimNull(startstr As String) As String

'returns the string up to the first
'null, if present, or the passed string
Dim pos As Integer

pos = InStr(startstr, Chr$(0))

If pos Then
TrimNull = Left$(startstr, pos - 1)
Exit Function
End If

TrimNull = startstr

End Function

Private Function GetFileInformation(FP As FILE_PARAMS) As Long

'local working variables
Dim WFD As WIN32_FIND_DATA
Dim hFile As Long
Dim nSize As Long
Dim sPath As String
Dim sRoot As String
Dim sTmp As String

'FP.sFileRoot (assigned to sRoot) contains
'the path to search.
'
'FP.sFileNameExt (assigned to sPath) contains
'the full path and filespec.
sRoot = QualifyPath(FP.sFileRoot)
sPath = sRoot & FP.sFileNameExt

'obtain handle to the first filespec match
hFile = FindFirstFile(sPath, WFD)

'if valid ...
If hFile <> INVALID_HANDLE_VALUE Then

Do

'remove trailing nulls
sTmp = TrimNull(WFD.cFileName)

'Even though this routine uses filespecs,
'*.* is still valid and will cause the search
'to return folders as well as files, so a
'check against folders is still required.
If Not (WFD.dwFileAttributes And FILE_ATTRIBUTE_DIRECTORY) _
= FILE_ATTRIBUTE_DIRECTORY Then

'file found, so increase the file count
FP.nFileCount = FP.nFileCount + 1

'retrieve the size and assign to nSize to
'be returned at the end of this function call
nSize = nSize + (WFD.nFileSizeHigh * (MAXDWORD + 1)) + WFD.nFileSizeLow

'add to the list if the flag indicates
If FP.bList Then List1.AddItem sRoot & sTmp

End If

Loop While FindNextFile(hFile, WFD)


'close the handle
hFile = FindClose(hFile)

End If

'return the size of files found
GetFileInformation = nSize

End Function

Private Function SearchForFiles(FP As FILE_PARAMS) As Double

'local working variables
Dim WFD As WIN32_FIND_DATA
Dim hFile As Long
Dim nSize As Long
Dim sPath As String
Dim sRoot As String
Dim sTmp As String

sRoot = QualifyPath(FP.sFileRoot)
sPath = sRoot & "*.*"

'obtain handle to the first match
hFile = FindFirstFile(sPath, WFD)

'if valid ...
If hFile <> INVALID_HANDLE_VALUE Then

'This is where the met

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