Read file into richtextbox *[resolved]*

[RealNickyDude]

How? I've searched the forum and came across this:

Dim fs As FileStream = New FileStream(Application.StartupPath & "\snippets.txt", IO.FileMode.Open)
Dim sw As New StreamWriter(fs)
sw.Write(rtbcodewindow.Text)
sw.Close()
fs.Close()

but nothing seems to happen!

I have a toolbar and pressing various buttons will load an associated rtf file, plain and simple, but how? I need the exact code as I can get bugger all to work!

[Pirate]

I'm sure ,this solves your problem .
http://abstractvb.com/code.asp?F=11&P=1&A=969

add this to your VB.NET Book

[RealNickyDude]

I've taken this line from it pirate:

rtbcodewindow.LoadFile(Application.StartupPath & "\forms.rtf", RichTextBoxStreamType.RichText)

Hoping that will do it (as they are set files, not chosen by the user) but i'm getting this error:

System.IO.FileNotFoundException' occurred in mscorlib.dll



All i want is to load a specific file into a richtextbox, no filters, no user dialog boxes, no line-splitting, just a straight forward "load this rtf file into this rtb."

[RealNickyDude]

It's ok, its all sorted now, I didn't have the textfiles in the right place (doh!)

[Pirate]

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[MrPolite]

ahem ahem ahem, so many people make this mistake, in vb6 and in vb.net
when you use "Application.StartupPath" it sometimes returns the path without a "\" at the end, but NOT ALWAYS!
If you run your app from the root directory in drive C for example, it is going to return "C:\", WITH a backslash.....
so dont just use Application.StartupPath & "\"


You could just use IO.Path.Combine (Application.StartupPath, "filename")

[hellswraith]

Great tip MrPolite. I have never seen that before. Thanks

[MrPolite]

Originally posted by hellswraith
Great tip MrPolite. I have never seen that before. Thanks

hehe, same with app.path in vb6

[RealNickyDude]

Originally posted by MrPolite
ahem ahem ahem, so many people make this mistake, in vb6 and in vb.net
when you use "Application.StartupPath" it sometimes returns the path without a "\" at the end, but NOT ALWAYS!
If you run your app from the root directory in drive C for example, it is going to return "C:\", WITH a backslash.....
so dont just use Application.StartupPath & "\"


You could just use IO.Path.Combine (Application.StartupPath, "filename")

Could you tell me exactly how Mr Polite? and thanks for the tip.

Oh, and a Happy New Year to everyone!

[MrPolite]

Happy new year!


can I tell you how to do what? use that path.combine? hmm

well you could do something like this:

Dim docPath As String = IO.Path.Combine(Application.StartupPath,"forms.rtf")
 
rtbcodewindow.LoadFile(docPath, RichTextBoxStreamType.RichText)

btw I havent tested that code, hope it works

[RealNickyDude]

Works a treat Mr Polite