topic Re: ArcCatalog Filter - Quick Find add-in in ArcObjects SDK Questions

ArcCatalog Filter - Quick Find add-in

EricMcPhee — Fri, 13 May 2011 14:11:39 GMT

I am trying to re-create the ArcCatalog Quick Find Tool (http://arcscripts.esri.com/details.asp?dbid=14236) as an add-in for ArcCatalog 10 using the referenced arcscripts code as a base. I can get ArcCatalog to filter based upon the IGxObjectFilter interface...if I specify GXFilterFeatureClasses, that is all that I get is FeatureClasses. What I would like to do is specify some text characters (ie "Lake") and have the ArcCatalog Contents view filtered to only show me featureclasses that contain the characters "lake" somewhere in the name.

Is it possible to do this as an add-in??

Re: ArcCatalog Filter - Quick Find add-in

ChrisQuick — Fri, 25 Oct 2013 15:27:16 GMT

I am trying to re-create the ArcCatalog Quick Find Tool (http://arcscripts.esri.com/details.asp?dbid=14236) as an add-in for ArcCatalog 10 using the referenced arcscripts code as a base. I can get ArcCatalog to filter based upon the IGxObjectFilter interface...if I specify GXFilterFeatureClasses, that is all that I get is FeatureClasses. What I would like to do is specify some text characters (ie "Lake") and have the ArcCatalog Contents view filtered to only show me featureclasses that contain the characters "lake" somewhere in the name.

Is it possible to do this as an add-in??

Hi Eric. I was wondering if you ever got this to work or not. Sounds like a great tool to have.

Thanks,

Chris Quick
Glacier Technologies, LLC

Re: ArcCatalog Filter - Quick Find add-in

EricMcPhee — Fri, 25 Oct 2013 15:35:48 GMT

I was not able to re-create it.....but I was able to get the original tool from ArcScripts to work. I'm now on version 10.1, it the tool still functions. I have no idea what I did to get it to work though. Sorry. I'd suggest installing the original and see if it works.

Re: ArcCatalog Filter - Quick Find add-in

BinChen1 — Wed, 29 Jan 2014 16:48:14 GMT

For 10.1 or above, you can implement IGxObjectFilter using C#, it's much easier than the old VB.

You can filter the object by name, code looks something like:

public bool CanDisplayObject(IGxObject @object)

{
    if (@object == null) return false;

    if (string.IsNullOrEmpty(_filter) || _filter.Trim() == "") return true;

    return Regex.IsMatch(@object.Name, _filter, RegexOptions.IgnoreCase);
}[/ODE]

This is much powerful by using regex than the old VB one.

Re: ArcCatalog Filter - Quick Find add-in

JeffJacobson — Mon, 15 Sep 2014 15:43:02 GMT

Your closing CODE tag is missing the "C".

Re: ArcCatalog Filter - Quick Find add-in

AnthonyWarren — Tue, 16 Sep 2014 15:34:13 GMT

I re-wrote a variation of the original tool in .NET and posted it here:

awarrencaslys/QuickFind.Net · GitHub