Opening Txt File

[PITBULLCJR]

Say you create your own notepad. Then you go and assocaite .txt files with your program so now when you open a txt file it runs your program. How do you get your program to open that file and put it in the richtextbox? Thanks!!

[parksie]

RichTextBox1.LoadFile "myfile.txt", rtfText

Use rtfRTF to load a Rich Text File.

[PITBULLCJR]

Yes, I know how to open a file like that. But if someone double clicks on a txt file and your program starts up you don't know the name of that file. So you can't load it that way. Any other suggestions? Thanks!!

[parksie]

The filename will be supplied to your program as part of the Command item:

RichTextBox1.LoadFile Command, rtfText

[PITBULLCJR]

Thanks it worked great. Now that I know it can be done its time to make my own personal notepad the way I like it. Thanks man!!

[parksie]

One thing to keep in mind, if someone calls your program like:

myprog.exe afile.txt

then it will work fine. Unfortunately, if they add any other options, it won't:

myprog.exe afile.txt /opt:5

Your program will then try and load the file: "afile.txt /opt:5", and will die. You'd need to find some way of splitting the string up.

[PITBULLCJR]

What are those option things? I have never seen them before and have no idea what they do?

[parksie]

They can do anything you want your program to do. For example, if you wanted it to print the file, without showing it, you could have a /p option.

[PITBULLCJR]

Well I have no idea how to use them so my prog won't be able to do that for a while atleast. Thanks anyway!!

This will disregard anything after the filename.

RichTextBox1.LoadFile Left(Command$, InStr(1, Command$, ".") + 3), rtfText

[parksie]

Megatron - that's fine until they use long filenames - the filename will be enclosed in quotes (it should anyway). I'll have a go at sorting something else out.