Howdy People,
           I'm trying to make a notepad and am wondering what to use as a text field which can be made into many other file types.
             Thank You,
                       Callum

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Apocolypse2005, I'm a programmer - of sorts.

I think you should do like this:
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change the value for default as : (your execute filename)
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Not really what i am looking for, i mean the actual control. where you can write in and save s a txt file

hi there.. did you saw the rich text control??

HTH

Gonzalo

Hi,
   Funnily enough you can't miss the richtext box control, but when u write html on it then save and it saves with more coding!!!!

-from your lord and master Callum the Incredible-

why just don't use a simple TextBox with the Multiline and Scrollbars properties set to true?

Marco

Thanks Marco,
             Would that work for inputing code into and manipulating the data inside of the textbox. also is noptp-ad amde like that??

I am not sure I understand your need.
If you just want a simple version of notepad with all the limitations of notepad, the standard text-box control will work fine.
If you want to be able to have various text formating in your display, such as different fonts and different sizes being displayed at the same time, you will want to use something like the Rich Textbox Control.

The "more coding" that you speak of is the RTF markup. This is very important for storing the information needed to describe the formatting. If you don't want this, just use the Text property of the control to retrieve the text minus the formatting and save this through code rather than using the SaveFile method of the rtf control.

So, what are your options if you want to develop a high-functionality text entry screen:
- Write your own control in C++ which is probably NOT a reasonable path for you.
- You could buy a 3rd party control, like the Tx Text Control (http://www.textcontrol.com/), for example. This would be the "VB" way of doing this, and to put a finer point on it - this is really the way VB was intended to be used: To provide the environment and "glue" for putting together complex and full-featured products by re-using commercially available components.

Anyway - If you want features like deep undo functionality, a high degree of formatting, the ability to save to PDF, HTML, RTF, etc then a third party control will be a good anwser. If you jut need minimal editing funtionality, you can do a lot with just the Text Box or an RTF control.

Have fun



Woody Z http://www.learntoprogramnow.com

Thanks,
      When i tried to save a html page it came out with extra bits of code which i havent seen before, does some property of the rich textbox control need to be changed??

No - there isn't a property to change. Using the "SaveFile" method of the RichTextBox control saves the formated RTF (which stands for Rich Text Format) text of the control. If you want to save JUST the text portion of it - that is, the text that appears in the control WITHOUT any of the formatting mark-up, then you need to use the Text property of the control to retrieve the text from it, and then save it using the FileSystemObject or one of the older file manipulation methods of VB.

Make sense? You cannot use the SaveFile method if what you want to do is save only the text without the RTF markup.

Woody Z http://www.learntoprogramnow.com