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[KingSparta]

I was playing with some code and wanted to make a plug-in that worked with searching Text files for user imput strings.

The problem is i can't push text files into Playing Now.

How can i access text files and data fields for text files thru the SDK?

I would like to grab the file name, then do a search on that file name, with user imput strings and then create tags if the words was found in the text file.

[KingSparta]

I guess that means no way it can be done using the MC SDK

[Matt]

You can get the text field from the database like this:

#define MF_TEXT  _T("Text")
MJFile->Get(MF_TEXT)

You can also let MC do the searches for you using the SDK:

MJ->Search(_T("[Text]=KingSparta"))

Hopefully that helps.

[KingSparta]

That really does not make things clear for me

i guess your talking about

MJFilesAutomation * Search(string strSearch)

Description: gets a MJFilesAutomation interface (see below) for the files matching the specified search
Parameters:

strSearch: the search string to use... can be any search accepted by Media Center

Return Value: MJFilesAutomation interface

that is the only thing i see for search in the SDK, Keep in mind i am working in VB6

and this is just to search for files, but i would still need to have them in playing now to make changes in the fields (like custom1 etc...)

and since MC currently does not move text files to playing now i can never access them to make changes in the MC database.

[Matt]

Do a search for:

[Media Type]=[Data]

or this:

[File Type]=[txt]

You'll get MJFileAutomation objects for the text files.  Then ask the MJFileAutomation for MF_TEXT to get the contents inside the file.

Are we getting warmer?

[KingSparta]

well see, maybe