OLE for .txt files

[mlewis]

Does it have to be an OLE control? Becuz theres much better ways of doing that than OLE.

[kbea1965]

No it does not have to be an OLE. I just need to be able to view various types of documents on a form and then be able to search for string matches.

[mlewis]

what file formats you need to open?

[kbea1965]

XLS, DOC, PPT, RTF, TXT (all office suite files and various others like Visio, etc.). Basically any type.

[mlewis]

yeesh. I don't think OLE will help with that much diversity. If the files were all pure text (like RTF/HTML) you could just pop open the file in code and parse thru it for each word, but XLS/DOC/PPT/etc are not text files, so I can't say.

[kbea1965]

What about coding for RTF or TXT files and maybe even HTML. I have programming in place that works with OLE and Office programs. Below is the coding I'm using for RTF: and TXTs:

RichTextBox1.LoadFile filename

This loads the file into a rich text box but I want to use the same OLE for all files.

[mlewis]

Hmm. I don't really know how one would go about this; it seems to me that if you could access the contents of the document (using whatever methods) you could just do a simple search, but the methods of accessing the document contents is where I go fuzzy.

Sorry bout that, hope you get it figured.