Placing data

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.

Welcome to the forums. :wave:

Two questions:

What is an Edit Box?

What is a CAN line?

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.

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

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Originally Posted by talltubatom

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

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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?

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.... :)