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FileFinder is the tentative name I've given to this app. These are very handy to have built into a traditional OS. I think the one in Windows NT4 works quite well (Start->Find->Files&Folders). I would be interested in working with others on this app.

The main components would be:

• A class bean that can take a directory and parse it recursively, returning the output in an abstract fashion. (This one is there now in org.jos.lib.file but without regex support --RalfStephan)

• A class bean that handles filtering the output of the directory parser (above), to find file matches.

• Use of a regex bean for searching inside files.

• Then of course the UI classes. These should be done last, totally abstracted from the guts of the program of course.

I've been messing with PrettyPrinter lately, but FileFinder was going to be my next project. Of course, anyone can work on it, so I sent him back my ideas, a little more in depth than above. Here they are:

(Thomas´ ideas regarding the file search were included in org.jos.lib.file.DirectoryScanner.java, see org.jos.lib.file)

[...] Then once we have the DirectoryParserBean, we would need to work on the guts of FileFinder. I haven't laid out the rest of it, but if you've worked with the File finder in Windows 95/NT, then you can see what I'm basing my ideas off of. It is actually a pretty good program, except it does not support regular expression searching of text. We'll need some sort of RegexBean to deal with Regex's in JOS.

-- (1/21/98 -- boy time flies!!)

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