ftpLocalFileList filter

Question

Is there any way to filter the ftpLocalFileList in edtFtpPro to exclude thumbs.db and allow all other files to be visible?

Answer 1

Have you tried using the CustomFilter property?

Answer 2

Have you tried using the CustomFilter property?

No wasn't quite sure how to do that with the localftpdirectory. Would it be similar/same as how we can add customer filters to multiuploads, etc? If so I have done that.

--/Greg

Answer 3

Have you tried using the CustomFilter property?

I am using 8.6.4.....
I did not see a CustomFilter property, but I assume you meant WilcardFilter? I am able to set a single pattern like *.DAT and that works, however I am unable to set for m ore than one. I would like to be able to set like "*.dat,*.xls,*.csv") and exclude all others or exclude one file type and include all others. I do not see a way to filter out just the thumbs.db file and include all others

Answer 4

There's a CustomFilter property in FTPFileList, the base class.

Answer 5

There's a CustomFilter property in FTPFileList, the base class.

OK. Found it. Still cannot figure out how to use it with the local file list. When i upload/download, i call a delegate to filter which works.

This is what I am trying but not working..

this part dows not work
foreach (FTPFile item in FtpLocalFileList1) {
FtpLocalFileList1.CustomFilter = new FileFilter(IsFileDb(item));
}

and

private bool IsFileDb(FTPFile file)
{
bool filterFile = false;

if (file.Name.ToUpper.Contains(".DB")) {
filterFile = false;
//return all files except .db
} else {
filterFile = true;
}

return filterFile;
}

Are there any examples of using a customFilter or snippets or any help to assist in this?

Thanks

Answer 6

You only need to assign the property once, when you create the list.

Answer 7

You only need to assign the property once, when you create the list.

OK, there are no examples on how to do that, that I can find anywhere -- set up a customer filter for a local file list. I do not know how to assign this property with a filefilter that allows all file types except a extension of .db. I looked at your help file and could not figure out how to create a filefilter using the ftplocalfilelist.customfilter. The filefilter takes a ftpfile as an arg, but do not see how that is used with local file list where i can exclude certain file types. I thought I could iterate the list, but you said no and to assign when created. Now I am confused as to what to do. With upload/downloads that is pretty straightforward. Can you provide an example or a snippet of what I need to do please. Thanks.

Answer 8

Your code is basically correct, but you just need to set the property once.

private void ftpLocalFileList1_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {
        ftpLocalFileList1.CustomFilter = new FileFilter(IsFileDb);
        ftpLocalFileList1.RefreshFileList();
    }

Answer 9

Your code is basically correct, but you just need to set the property once.

private void ftpLocalFileList1_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {
        ftpLocalFileList1.CustomFilter = new FileFilter(IsFileDb);
        ftpLocalFileList1.RefreshFileList();
    }

Thanks. Here is my isFileDB which shows no files if one is a thumbs.db file. Doesn't seem to work if any is returned as false

private bool IsFileDb()
{

bool result = true;
object fileEntries = Directory.GetFiles(ftpList.LocalDirectory);

foreach (string fileItem in fileEntries) {
if ((Path.GetExtension(fileItem).ToUpper().Contains(".DB"))) {
result = False
} else {
result = true;
}
}
return result;
}

Answer 10

No, just use your previous IsFileDB code, i.e. private bool IsFileDb(FTPFile file).