Not bringing Window to the Top

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zeenmakr
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Not bringing Window to the Top

Post by zeenmakr »

Hi,

Everything statusbar display 'n objects' of the search result. I'm been using an external script to grab that to determine whether '0 objects' or '1 objects' is return ect...

The problem I'm having is that the Everything Window keep popping up for every search made. I have an array of hundreds of files that need to check routine if it is exists.

Everything time this code is executed, I can't do anything else on this machine because of the the constants popup. Could it be run in the background wihout activate the Everything Window?

I'm exploring es.exe option as well but this cmd window does popup too

Thanks
NotNull
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Re: Not bringing Window to the Top

Post by NotNull »

I think ES.exe is the better alternative (use the -get-result-count)
What program/script do you use to start ES / Everything? Maybe there is a mor elegant way.
void
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Re: Not bringing Window to the Top

Post by void »

Please try ES.

Or, try starting Everything minimized:

Everything.exe -minimized
zeenmakr
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Re: Not bringing Window to the Top

Post by zeenmakr »

Thanks -minimized work, initially didn't think of it as a hide func

For ES I was able to export the results to txt file but what about exported the -get-result-count

Works

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es.exe -name foo bar -export-txt results.txt
Does not work

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es.exe -get-result-count -name foo bar -export-txt results.txt
NotNull
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Re: Not bringing Window to the Top

Post by NotNull »

zeenmakr wrote: Fri Nov 29, 2019 9:53 pm Does not work

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es.exe -get-result-count -name foo bar -export-txt results.txt

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es.exe -get-result-count foo bar
Will give you the number of files found matching your criteria.
That can be processed further with something like:

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for /f "usebackq" %%x in (`es.exe -get-result-count  foo bar`) do if %%x gtr 0 echo Files found (%%x)
But all will depend on how and where you want to integrate this.
(as said: "What program/script do you use to start ES / Everything? Maybe there is a more elegant way.")
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