SDK

The Everything SDK provides a DLL and Lib interface to Everything over IPC.
It also provides methods for using WM_COPYDATA for IPC.
Everything is required to run in the background.

Download

Everything-SDK.zip

Manipulating the search state

• Everything_SetSearch
• Everything_SetMatchPath
• Everything_SetMatchCase
• Everything_SetMatchWholeWord
• Everything_SetRegex
• Everything_SetMax
• Everything_SetOffset
• Everything_SetReplyWindow
• Everything_SetReplyID
• Everything_SetSort
• Everything_SetRequestFlags

Reading the search state

• Everything_GetSearch
• Everything_GetMatchPath
• Everything_GetMatchCase
• Everything_GetMatchWholeWord
• Everything_GetRegex
• Everything_GetMax
• Everything_GetOffset
• Everything_GetReplyWindow
• Everything_GetReplyID
• Everything_GetLastError
• Everything_GetSort
• Everything_GetRequestFlags

Executing the query

• Everything_Query

Check for query reply

• Everything_IsQueryReply

Manipulating results

• Everything_SortResultsByPath
• Everything_Reset

Reading results

• Everything_GetNumFileResults
• Everything_GetNumFolderResults
• Everything_GetNumResults
• Everything_GetTotFileResults
• Everything_GetTotFolderResults
• Everything_GetTotResults
• Everything_IsVolumeResult
• Everything_IsFolderResult
• Everything_IsFileResult
• Everything_GetResultFileName
• Everything_GetResultPath
• Everything_GetResultFullPathName
• Everything_GetResultListSort
• Everything_GetResultListRequestFlags
• Everything_GetResultExtension
• Everything_GetResultSize
• Everything_GetResultDateCreated
• Everything_GetResultDateModified
• Everything_GetResultDateAccessed
• Everything_GetResultAttributes
• Everything_GetResultFileListFileName
• Everything_GetResultRunCount
• Everything_GetResultDateRun
• Everything_GetResultDateRecentlyChanged
• Everything_GetResultHighlightedFileName
• Everything_GetResultHighlightedPath
• Everything_GetResultHighlightedFullPathAndFileName

General

• Everything_Reset
• Everything_CleanUp
• Everything_GetMajorVersion
• Everything_GetMinorVersion
• Everything_GetRevision
• Everything_GetBuildNumber
• Everything_Exit
• Everything_IsDBLoaded
• Everything_IsAdmin
• Everything_IsAppData
• Everything_RebuildDB
• Everything_UpdateAllFolderIndexes
• Everything_SaveDB
• Everything_SaveRunHistory
• Everything_DeleteRunHistory
• Everything_GetTargetMachine

Run History

• Everything_GetRunCountFromFileName
• Everything_SetRunCountFromFileName
• Everything_IncRunCountFromFileName

Examples

• C/C++
• C#
• C# CLI Example by dipique
• Clarion
• Visual Basic
• Python

Notes

• The SDK is a basic IPC wrapper
• Requires "Everything" client to be running.
• ANSI / Unicode support.
• Thread safe.
• Support for blocking and non-blocking mode.
• x86 and x64 support.

See Also

• IPC