On 11/15/04 5:44 PM, Sandeep Kanwal didst favor us with:
> Hi,
>
> I am looking for some help searching files on Mac OS X !!
> First question is which function should I use out of the following:
>
> FSCatalogSearch() or
> PBCatalogSearchSync() or
> PBCatalogSearchAsync()
>
> What is the difference I could not understand from the Apple
> documentation maybe I have limited understanding.
> I tried to play around with PBCatalogSearchSync() function and tried to
> search for the files in a folder but the confusing part was this
> documentation...
>
> "Currently, this iterator must be created with the kFSIterateSubtree
> option and the container must be the root directory of a volume. See
> FSIterator for more information on the FSIterator data type."
>
> What does this mean ?
> Does this mean that the folder user selects to search should be like
> "Macintosh HD:Folder1"
> and deeper levels will fail like "Macintosh HD:Folder1:Folder2"
No. It says the root directory. That would be Macintosh HD.
> Confused by above I tried searching the volume as follow:
> /* spec is the FolderSpec */
> err = FSGetVolumeInfo( spec->vRefNum, 0, NULL, kFSVolInfoNone, NULL,
> NULL, &rootFSRef );
> err = FSOpenIterator( &rootFSRef, kFSIterateSubtree, &iterator );
>
> But this will search the files on whole volume
Yes.
> which may take a lot of
> time and then I have to filter the files for the user selected folder ?
Yes.
There's no support for searching a specific directory. To do that you have
to iterate over the directory with FSGetCatalogInfoBulk and filter the items
manually.
Larry
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