Thx Thorsten... glad you like it! I was thinking of adding some features to it over the next few weeks... so hopefully I'll be able to get to it! Enjoy... Andy.
Would be cool, to add some features.
I just now made a short test and to my astonishment your app was even quicker than the search with the file-window.
I searched over all and the search-expression was
interlaken OR LindaI have in the DB 301.506 files, means quite a lot.
The founded results was 376 files.With your "Fancy Search" it took 2 Minutes and 34 seconds (File Window search 12 seconds longer).
This is quite a long time, but first I have quite a big DB and the search-term was also a kind of regex.
The real beauty of your App is, that I can start wherever I want and the result will be in a result-window.
This is cool. If I add the time for a file-window-search, where I have first leave my place (what is not good) and go to a place with all images, then the time for this native search is even far longer.
Hence I like your App.
If I want search only for filename, well, in this case the native App "File Finder" is very, very quickly and not to beat.
If you fine one day the time to add some features, here are my thoughts, just a kind of "mindstorm":
1) displaying the time for the search would be nice, because then I could see "ah, 35 secondes past, this will still go some time".
2) if the result is 0, then some display of this result would be nice (like "no files are founded" or so)
3) To make the search quicker, maybe some kind of radio - buttons or something like this to choose, where to search. In the old days of visual basic I had once such a thing, I made then some choosing for me, what I could simply click on and the search-time of course benefitted of this.
And, btw, some kind of buttons, what I can see at once, is far better than some drop-down-fields, because I can see on one sight, what values are currently choosen.
I added, as I can remember, some points like
- search only in the filename
- search only in keywords
- search only in the headline, description (because I use this most and I guess, a lot of users also)
- search only headline, description, keywords
- search only in filename, headline, description, keywords
- serach over all (like you have it now)
But Andy, you know, this are only proposals and maybe some other features, what you have in mind, are fare better.
At least, I can only repeat, the most cool thing is, I can stay in IMatch, where I am, choose your app, hit a value and let run.
The results will be shown in a new window, voila, simply cool.
My 2cents.