File Search

[Nvision]

I have alot of different cd's with differnt songs on them and I am forever forgetting which cd has a paticular song on it and so I was wanting to make a button that when clicked would open up a search box where I would type the name of a song ex. song.mp3 and press ok and then AMS'S built in search function would take over and search my cd for song.mp3 and if it found it a message would popup saying song.mp3 was located and if it not a different message would popup saying it was not found. Could anyone help me out on how to achive this and thanks in advance for any replies.

[Jito463]

Re: File Search

I don't think it's for use as a search engine. It only allows you to search for a specific file on the persons hard drive. So, say, if a certain file is there, then you don't need to install another program for example. I might be mistaken, but I don't think so. When I tested this on a build of mine to see what would happen, it asked me to define the file name parameter.

[Nvision]

Re: File Search

Well I have managed to do it somewhat but there is some things that I could not figure out. Here is what I did.

1. Created some text named "search" and on the actions tab for the text I put in a GetInfo dialog box with these params

Variable name: %songvar%

Default: Left blank

Window caption: Search

Window message: Type the name of the song u are looking for in the box below

browse type: none

boolean: none

OS: all of them

Language: Neutral

2. Under that action I put a search for file action with these params

variable name: %SearchVar%

Default: Left blank

Message: Searching for file...

File Name: %songvar%

Priorty Paths: Left Blank

Look In: fixed drives

Store this: full path

Browse if not found: checked

Boolean: none

OS: all of them

Language: Neutral

Now this meathod works great except if you press cancel on the search/GetInfo box it does a search anyway so I thought I would need to set some kind of boolean condition that if cancel was pressed to just abort the search and here is where I am having my problem becuase when I add anything into the boolean area the search/GetInfo box is bypassed and it just goes to the file not found would u like to manuallly borwse box. I hope that makes sense.

So what I wanting to know is what would I need to do in order for it not to search when I press cancel. A boolean expression does not seem to work so would I need to use a custom verb or something else like this ? and if so how ?

Thanks again for any replies.

[Jito463]

Re: File Search

Well, I did figure out something I think. If you add the Boolean in the Search for file section to read:

%songvar% <> (leave B blank)

It will not run unless there is some text in the Get info dialog. Unfortunately (and maybe you've figured this out already), I couldn't figure out how to get it to do what I want to with the file once it found it. If I try browse, it thinks it should run the file. If I try Play MP3, it gives me an error that it can't find %Test2% (the name I used for %SearchVar% while testing this) during the build process. But, at least this fixes the problem you asked about. I'll leave it to you to figure out what to do with the file once they find it. Good luck.

[Jito463]

Re: File Search

I figured it out. I made it a Play Multimedia function. Works like a charm.

[Nvision]

Re: File Search

That is how i had it do it if it found a file and thx for the help and hope this does you and anyone else some good.

[Mark]

Re: File Search

Hi,

Instead of using the "Play MP3" action you can use the "Play MP3 Reference" action. The "Play MP3" action will build the MP3 file into your DATA directory, but the "Play MP3 Reference" action will play a file located on your CD-ROM, like most file actions. So using the “Play MP3 Reference” action, you will be able to use variables in your target.

Also note: We recommend people use an "Open Document" action rather then the "Play Multimedia" action because some applications do not support the PLAY shell verb.

mark.