Hi,
I WANT TO WRITE/READ DATA IN PARTICULAR COLUMN NO. IN NOTEPAD BY USING VB 6.0.
CAN ANYBODY SEND ME THE CODING FOR THAT.
rohit.dudhbhate 0 Newbie Poster
Jx_Man 987 Nearly a Senior Poster Featured Poster
Post your code here. How far you doing this. Show some effort.
we Will trying to help you.
Ancient Dragon 5,243 Achieved Level 70 Team Colleague Featured Poster
That could actually be very difficult, depending on what font you use in Notepad.exe. Some fonts are variable width so that the letter M is a lot wider then the letter I. If you use a fixed-width font then your problem becomes a lot easier, just count the number of characters up to the column you want.
rishif2 57 Posting Whiz in Training
what efforts did you made to solve this issue . . . ?
rohit.dudhbhate 0 Newbie Poster
Here is my code
Open Path & ("d:/rohit.txt") For Append As #1
Print #1, TextBox1.Text; Space(1); TextBox3.Text; Space(10); TextBox2.Text; Space(12); TextBox4.Text; TextBox5.Text; TextBox6.Text; Space(7);
Close #1
In this case I use space but the column no. will changed for different projects. Space function takes so much time.
eg.
If I write 1 in textbox & I click on command button then that value will automatically go on column no. 12 in notepad.
rishif2 57 Posting Whiz in Training
@rohit.dudhbhate
A few things:-
Are you using spaces in the file as a column separator ?, if yes then you shouldn't go with this because it will not do any meaningful.
.
lets see ex:-
(text1.text="Any string") and Next time it may be(text1.text="Entire Line with group of strings") then it will write to file as:-
Any string
Entire Line with group of strings
as you put one space as separator, so here you cant identify(for further uses) that what is next(text3.text) because the second line has a lot spaces.
Space function takes so much time
if it takes really then you should go with vbTab
at last you should use something different character as a column separator rather than using space .
Reverend Jim 4,966 Hi, I'm Jim, one of DaniWeb's moderators. Moderator Featured Poster
Your question seems to say you want to control Notepad from within VB but your code implies you only want to modify a text file. Which is it?
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