Hello everyone. I'm a novice, working on a very simple program in both VB 6 and VB 2008. Visual Basic 6 seems much easier to write code with, so I'm sticking with it for this project.

I have a form with eight text boxes that I input text into.

There is also a command button. The command button simply creates a text file, and stores the inputted text in that file. Here's the code I wrote for the command button:

Private Sub Generate_Click()
Dim info As String
info = "c:\Movies.txt"
Open info For Append As #1
Print #1, "Title: " & Title.Text
Print #1, "Director: " & Director.Text
Print #1, "Starring: " & Starring.Text
Print #1, "IMDB: " & IMDB.Text
Print #1, "Running Time: " & RunningTime.Text
Print #1, "Genre: " & Genre.Text
Print #1, "Subtitles: " & Subtitles.Text
Print #1, "Year of Release: " & Year.Text
Print #1, "Comments: " & CommentsText
Close #1
MsgBox "Your file has been created."
End Sub

So simple, even I can understand it. So far....

I want to do a few more things with this code, and am requesting help, if I may, please.

First of all, being a novice, I am not yet sure how to add code to the above that lets the file be opened and displayed. In VB 2008, the code to do this is:

Process.Start("c:\Movies.txt ")

Which I put in after the MsgBox line.

I do not know what to use for Visual Basic 6. Can anyone please tell me what to use?

Secondly: I want the file to be double-spaced. I know I could put
Print #1, ""

In between each line. However, just to learn programming a bit better, I'd like to know if it's possible to write code to double-space the file in one fell swoop, so to speak. Perhaps a FOR-NEXT loop that would automate the process, or some other procedure.

Is this possible? If so, what sort of commands should I use? Is it worth the effort, or would the Print #1, "" option just be easier?

The third thing I want to do is more complex, and I'll save this for another thread. But just to mention it...what I want to do is create a SAVE AS dialog box where the user can select the drive and folder where the file is to be stored, and give the file a name. Is this possible? Would I have to write entirely different code other than the Open File command?

Thank you very much for any assistance you care to give. J. Danniel (Please call me Jd.)

Hi there..

let go in order if we can...

Let's see.. When you do process.start on any file, is like double clicking on it... So it will open the correct process to handle it.. It's working because windows know how to open a txt..
To do the same trick on VB6, use shell()....

That's by far the best way... On .net you have a writeln on a stream, that write a line and add a new line/carriage return char at the end.. it's exactly the same...

Well.. a for and then what?? a select case to choose the line?? that's a no no what you can do, instead, is write a function that receive a file handle and a string, and write the string and a new empty line on the file... that way you will write only one time the new line... think about it...

In .net the object you need is there, already code for you and ready to use.. in vb6, you have a folder navigator, a drive navigator to do that, but you have to manually do it....

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Gonzalo

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