Hey, I've been looking around here for a while but its my first post, I think this might be the right place for this question, if not please move it.

I have a few folders with different file types in them. I want to make a search tool that I can use to search these folders for File names. I'm going to try using VB6 for it. Its a very basic idea, but I'm new to VB and database type programming. Any pointers in what I should look into to show me how to go about this?

so what have you tried so far for this?

I haven't tried to imlement the idea yet, I'm just looking for a pointer into what would be the best method to do this, then I'll give it a go. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Ok so with this I have tried a few things. I've done a check for filenames and folders to see if they exist and if they do then I add them to a listbox, click on the item in the list and it will open. This seems to work but it seems kind of cumbersome and loop heavy. There has to be a better implementation. Any ideas?

what exactly do you want?

I'm just looking for an effecient approach at creating a search tool for finding files. I've got a working model but it's too slow. There must be a better way to do it. So I'm just looking for a different approach to the one I mentioned in an earlier post.
If anyone has any ideas, then feel free to chime in.

i post an attachment for example of search engine

Thanks for that code, I'm having a look at it to see how it works. Seems very suitable to wat I'm looking at. all I have to do is tweak it and add a few little things to it.

But I CAN NOT find a folder with this engine....Has somebody a code to find folders too??

check out this code...
hope u'll get ur answer

give me feedback if this helps u...

regards
SHouvik