Search folders by Description

[Anonymous]

All,

I'm looking to piece together some code to search a given folder (and sub folders) for a description of an inventor ipt / iam.

Is this possible?

I'll then look to  return the values to the used in a message box; detailing filename & description and path to file?

any help/info is most appreciative

thanks!!

[adam.nagy]

Hi,

You need to use Windows API to iterate the contents of folders. e.g. in .NET it would be 

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/07wt70x2(v=vs.110).aspx

Once you have the full path of the files then you can of course open them using the Inventor API to get information out of them.

If you want to do all this outside Inventor, then you could also use the Apprentice API: 
http://modthemachine.typepad.com/my_weblog/2010/03/iproperties-without-inventor-apprentice.html

Cheers,

[Wind_Talker]

Hi,

I had the exact same issue couple of weeks back. See my code at the following post.

Hope it helps.

http://forums.autodesk.com/t5/inventor-customization/comp-replace-by-next-or-previous-file-in-a-netw...