Placing data

[talltubatom]

Hey I'm pretty new to this and was just wondering what the easiest way of placing data into an edit box at runtime is. The program that I am running is retreiving data on a CAN line and I need to display the data line by line in a edit box to view the messages being recievd at runtime. any help would be appreciated.

[Hack]

Welcome to the forums.

Two questions:

What is an Edit Box?

What is a CAN line?

[talltubatom]

ok...
maybe I'm confuse by the terms I'm trying to use. When i say edit box i guess i just mean a white field that the program can put data into durring runtime.
Can line dose not matter for the point of this thread but it is a controler area network. I am getting information, retrieving it with my program and now i need to spit it out in a pretty format.

[Hack]

So, if I'm reading your correctly, the program you have is already retrieving the data

The program that I am running is retreiving data on a CAN line

So, all you need to do is redirect the data from where ever it is going now into a textbox. Is that what is needed here?

How does your program retreive the data?

[akhileshbc]

Use the below code:
Text1.Text=Text1.Text & vbNewLine & CANlineText
You better use the code Text1.Locked=True at runtime(place it in the form's load event), so that the messages in the textbox couldnot be editted by anyone...

Here in the above code, CANlineText is the data retreived using your CAN.... (I uses it as a string variable, because I don't know about CAN)
I think the above one will help you....