can you search web project files via XBasic?

[christappan]

Essentially, I want to do an Edit > Search in all Web Project Files but from XBasic so I can process what's found.

Any way to do that?

TIA

[-Jinx-]

Re: can you search web project files via XBasic?

Hi Chris,
I'm doing something that may help you out. In a dialog's onDialogInitialize event I'm searching a folder (that's not even on the server but is mapped) for files that start with "06004" in this case (if you use my test line in working or live preview). The way I have it set up it saves them to the variable in the format of a pipe delimited list. I then populate a checkbox control with the file names and locations. I would think that you could use something similar.

dim filepath as c
dim filesrc as c
dim files as c

if a5w_FlagWorkingPreviewOrPreview() = .T. then 
	'below filepath is for testing in working preview.
	filepath = "P:\Secured\ReleasedPDF\Tooling\060\06004.pdf"
else
	'get filepath from grid
	filepath = e.rtc._data.file_location
end if

filesrc = word(filepath,-1,chr(92))
	filesrc = word(filesrc,1,chr(46))
		filesrc = "P:\Secured\Tooling"+chr(92)+left(filesrc,3)+chr(92)+filesrc+"*.*"

files = filefind.Get(filesrc,0,"N|PN")

'---------- Set up variable to populate files to download checkbox list
dim e.rtc.filechoices as c
'---------- Populate the variable
e.rtc.filechoices = files
'debug(1)

You could change the file search around to search for pretty much whatever you'd like I'd think; including webproject files.

[christappan]

Re: can you search web project files via XBasic?

I really appreciate it. I need to search the contents of the file, though, and grid and new dialog components are binary files that I'm not going to be able to search like a normal text search...

[Steve Wood]

Re: can you search web project files via XBasic?

By "process" do you mean search all, and search and replace in A5W pages? I use a product named "Actual Search and Replace" for this. Like finding all session vars and then stripping all "__protected__" if found. I can't guess what other kind of processing you might do.

[christappan]

Re: can you search web project files via XBasic?

I don't mean that but I could use that in a separate need. Thanks. I literally went through and got rid of all my "e.session" and "e.rv." references manually last week.

I'm working on documenting my project better and built a simple database to hold the information about components, etc. But I'd like to have a relationship table that will let me see what components are related to other components. So for example, if I am making a change to a component or re-working it and imagining it's only called in one place but am forgetting three other places, I'll be able to see that easily.

[christappan]

Re: can you search web project files via XBasic?

An update and bump.

I found a great little utility called Swiss File Knife that will search for a specified text string in binary files in a defined directory, which returns things accurately for the file but returns way way way too much. There is a whole lot of historical design information in an a5wcmp file that is fully ignored (as it should be) in the XBasic tab of the component when opened in Alpha.

So again, in case someone else has thoughts, I'd really love to search via XBasic what Alpha Five would display as the XBasic for an open component.

So for example, say I need to search for all web project files (a5w, a5wcmp) that make any use of column "Ind_DOB" and list these files. I can go to the Edit > Search in all Web Project Files and list the files, but I have to manually document my findings, and if I wanted to the search for column "Ind_Gender" I'd have to manually search for that column. I want to run something in XBasic code that will do the same thing but will return to me this list as a variable within my function so I can do something with the list programmatically.

Anybody? TIA.