Exposure

Post date: Dec 23, 2008 3:01:49 AM

rexCrawler is getting a tad bit of exposure. It's been uploaded to freeware sites that I myself did not upload it to, and I've seen it discussed in a couple of freeware forums on the topic of desktop search programs. As such, I have decided that it's time to overhaul the program. There are several features that I have meant to include in the "public" version that I haven't yet moved out of my development sandbox. Well, that's going to change.

Coming soon, rexCrawler will have:

• full support for multiple extension matching (without the use of regular expressions)
• the option to replace the text that is found (including the use of regular expression capture groups)
• the ability to search through the text (stripped of formatting) in Microsoft Word documents, Excel spreadsheets, etc. (tentative)
• several aesthetic changes, such as a link to the website, a prettier "About" menu, Help documentation, etc.

I've got some time away from class and work in the next couple of weeks, and I think this would be a good project to work on. rexCrawler is a product that I have put a lot of my own blood, sweat, and tears into. I put it out there on the off chance that it would help someone else accomplish what I needed to when I decided to write it. Now that at least a good handful of people (that I know about, and have been vocal) have found it to be a useful program, I feel like I owe it to myself--and the freeware community at large--to polish it up a bit so that power users and laymen alike can use it to suit their purpose. That was my original goal, and remains the primary goal.