Printing to Notepad and Open with results (Resolved)

[Willie]

I need a basic example to carry the results of a form to notepad and open notepad with the values passed.

If you could just give me an example of how to print "Hello World!" to Notepad and open Notepad after the value has been passed, then I think I can do the rest myself.

Your help will be appreciated.

[jdc2000]

Private Sub Command1_Click()
 
    Dim strTemp1 As String
    Dim lngTemp1 As Long
    
    strTemp1 = "C:\Testabcd.txt"
    Open strTemp1 For Output As #1
    Print #1, "Hello World!"
    Close #1
    lngTemp1 = Shell("Notepad.exe " + strTemp1, vbNormalFocus)
 
End Sub

[joltremari]

The simplest example I can give is:

Text1.text = "Hello World"
Open "C:\[I]FolderName[/I]\[I]FileName[/I].txt" For Output As #1
   Print #1, Text1.Text
Close #1
 
Shell "Notepad.exe C:\[I]FolderName[/I]\[I]FileName[/I].txt", vbNormalFocus
 
'To Print it
Shell "Notepad.exe /p C:\[I]FolderName[/I]\[I]FileName[/I].txt", vbNormalFocus

There are other ways, this is just the simplest I know
Hope this helps

JO

[Willie]

I got it to work and I get the idea. I have one more question about your code.

Why do you Dim the file location as Long? I thought Long was only used for a numeric value?

Why do you both use "for Output as #1"? Could I change #1 to #2 or #3? (or is this just something people do like using i for temporary numeric values? kind of like programming etiquette )

Thanks agian!