I want to make a program that uses text files (or whatever I choose the extension to be) for settings. I have an example from someone's SVN updater for a game. The following is in customaddons.ini. I want to be able to do something similar. [Code]
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i've been busy with a program and it has worked out quite well. The only thing I still want is that it is possible to customize things and save that in a text file. Normally if i want an other background for one day, i need to change it in VB or make a checkbox to do that. if i then restart the program all the settings are lost and i have to set it again. so i was wondering if the program can make a text file and put codes like 1 for theme 1 and 2 for theme 2 etc. in it, then save it and load that file when it starts up again. and is this also possible for a login form? if yes, i can also add a "Create Account" button for my program instead of adding codes in VB.
View 6 RepliesI have over 4,000 xml files that needs to be converted in to a character based on a value and entered in to a rich text box. It will do this, until it runs out of files to read. I have tried "try" statements, "if" statements...
Imports System.Xml
Imports System.IO
Imports System[code]........
Is there a way to maintain application modified Settings in the settings files after a program update? i.e. I have 10 or so values in the settings file and the users can modify them... when I send a program update they revert back to what I initially programmed them to be.
View 3 RepliesI want to split some text by comma from My.Settings.Text1 . I found this
Private Sub Button1_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click
Dim newLines = (From line In RichTextBox1.Lines _
Let parts = line.Split(","c) _
Where parts.Length = 4 _
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but in this code knows how many splits are, and I dont't know how many will by in my settings. How to solve this problem? and how to select parts.
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Yup,not PHP but it's the same for readability)As you may imagine I want to make a simple text based rpg game, but that's not an important fact.The buttons btn1 to btn3 are already created at the designer, and there are going to be other procedures which will assign values to their text property according to the game context (main menu, combat, shopping, training, etc.) you're at.Ok, so what I want to do with that procedure I pasted is to parse the text of ANY of those buttons when I click them, and according to its value select a case which will trigger another appropriate procedure (now there are only msgboxes as placeholders for testing only).My problem is that I dont know how to refer to the originating class of the handled event! I mean, let's say I click btn2. I'll want to immediately get the text property of that button only and use it as the value for the select case tree. I suppose I need to put something at that ?I wrote there, but I don't have any idea. The first time I was so naive to put me.text in there, and of course it returned the form name. Is there's something to do this thing...? I thought at first it would be a very simple task, but I'm going nuts searching for a solution so it's like if it was not possible, but I find hard to believe that, because this would be very useful, right? By the way, what I want to achieve is not needing to make a separate procedure for each button and to avoid as well the need to move any game option to another procedure if later on I want to rearrange the menus, because I expect the game to have more than three buttons actually.
I'm trying to create my own custom "inputbox" (can't think of VB.Net term for the VB6 input box).
Anyways, I'd like to have a label & a textbox on my form along with 2 buttons. I want to let the label to grow based on the text that is in it. I know it has an autosize feature to it, and guess I can use that, how do I limit the width so that once it hits that limit it goes to a new line so that if I have a message or a question to pose to the user, it doesn't get too wide. Kind of like MessageBox.Show.
It'll be Label at the top, textbox under that, and the two buttons under that. I'd like the textbox to move up/down based on the size of the label, and the buttons to do the same along with the window not becoming too wide.
1. I can't find the file which reflects changes to user settings. This might be because I just can't find it (I can see a bunch of user.config files but they are all empty - weird!), or...
2. I'm not actually saving them when I think I am.
Regarding 2. - do I need to invoke
Is this all I need? And if so, why are my user.configs empty?
I'm working with an Treeview and i'm new at it and i have 2 questions.
1. How can i save the treeview items, to settings (my.settings.history)
2. How can i save the treeview items as an TXT or XML file or another exception.
My first post! im quite new to programming but loving every minute of it.Basically i want to open another exe file from vb.net 2010. i can do it normally using
system.Diagnostics.Process.Start _ ("c:winamp.exe") if winamp for example is installed on another pc in another location i want to run it from my program but i want there to be sort of like a settings.txt file where you can edit the path to winamp and my program should first read the path set in the settings file and then open accordingly. how do i go about doing this?
btw it would be great if you could point me in the right direction for making a windows form where one can edit the settings file within my program without editing the settings file in notepad
how would i go about having a picture box that displays one of 4 flags based on radio button settings?
View 6 RepliesSmall questions about the settings.settings. Are these settings saved into the registry? I'm want to use and external file for my connection-commands. I don't want to use the registry to store the strings. What do you recommend?
View 11 RepliesI have used many different "snipets" of code to download .txt from the interent however, each time, instead of showing [code]All failed to put it exactly how it is set out in the beginning. So I was wondering can anyone fix this? I do have a button to press so it downloads it and my declarations are:
-Imports System.IO
-Imports System.Net
the code for getting data from text files.
I have about 200 .txt files, all in same format as below.
m 998718989898
m 998766990878
F 67
P Thane
So, I want to import this in excel. I know the code for inserting the data in Excel, but no idea of getting the data from text files. This text files are actually used as contact management by the co and has contact name as file name.
providing code for getting data from a single file, Then I will run it in loop and insert in Excel.
I am making a recipe book that calculates the amounts of each ingredient needed for a dinner.The user inputs the number of people they are cooking for and then my program works out the amounts of ingredients needed, simply by * number of people.I know how to read from text files using commands such as: My.Computer.FileSystem.ReadAllText()But does anyone know how to take text for a text file, then multiply the contents of that file by the number of people?The text file only stores numbers, but I want to multiply each line seperately..Instead if getting the result of 10050*3, I want 100*3 and 50*3 on a seperate line.[code]For this to work, I suggest downloading the full project.You will also need to create a folder with two text files inside it. This will not work without them. "QuantityList.txt" and "IngredientList.txt".
View 17 RepliesI am trying to read information from a text file(.txt) using LINQ.I can't use a list box of predefined continents that someone can click on and it will bring up data from that continent.It will work if I let the countries fill the list box from the text file but then if I have two people from England my list box will display England more than once.For example my UN.txt file that is in my debug folder: [code] So I guess I have two different questions: 1. Is there anyway to stop the duplication of the continents as shown above? Can I pre-fill the list box with the continents and not have to fill it from what's in the data file?
View 14 RepliesI am trying to open a text file and read data based on what the user types, but am having problems because of the Input past End of File errors.
View 4 RepliesI have a file in a certain place. I'm making a script with a button in it. For understanding. Let's say the text file has this written in it:
"ABC"
in it, How would I make it if I pushed one of the buttons, it would change that "ABC" to:
"CBA" ' Or anything else random "BCA", "CAB", etc.
and then save it?note I am using Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 so no VB v6.0?
I have a very huge server log files like files are more than 500 to 600 mb and even some files are over 2 gb data. the files are maintained for few years. it will be maintained as is. each log file has at least 1 million lines to 20 million lines.I am looking create an application which can find a line in the text file using regex, removing duplicate entries.how these huge file can be handled in a way it works very quickly.
View 5 RepliesI use VS 2010 under Windows 7, and I need to extract text that is currently stored in pdf and doc/docx files. Using .NET 4, how can I do this?
View 1 RepliesI have seen a few different ways of Reading/Writing Text files. What i am trying to achieve is a simple debug file in the most efficient way possible. Currently I have....
If System.IO.File.Exists(debugpath) = True Then
Dim Debugwriter As New System.IO.StreamWriter(debugpath, True)
Debugwriter.WriteLine(debugwrite)
Debugwriter.Close()
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1. Do I have to close and reopen the file each time I want to write to it.
2. In vbscript I would simply open the the file at the start of the script and close at the end is the same possible here.
I have a monster of a problem and don't know where to start. I need to create a simple application that will: have two open file dialog boxeseach file box, one can choose the .txt file to compareonce each box has a file location, click a button that starts. My boss man wants the results saved as :
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First it might sound like an ordinary task but keep reading it isn't. I can't figure out how to find a phrase in a text file, and replace it with something else. Tried lots of things but always ending up with empty hands.
Suppose there's a text file in this order:
valueabc=6000.0000
valuettt=200.0000
valuexyz=7000.0000
I want to;
1) Find the phrase (e.g. valueabc) by scanning the whole text,
2) Replace the number that starts after "=" and ends before ".", namely "6000" in the middle with any number value i want.
I don't need the parts before "=" and after ".", only the number in the middle.
I'm working in this application in Visual Basic Studio 2010 I have a combobox where user select phone model and textbox where a text file is loaded when user select model, I added text files to the project resource because I don't want to put them in files in the root directory of my application
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what I need is a code to make text box load the text file wich have the same name of selected in combobox for example when user selct : CT-810 in combobox the text file with name: CT-810 must be loaded in the text box and so on for other combobox records
I'm trying to implement Bandwidth Total calculation into my little desktop monitoring program using 2 *.txt files. Everything else is working great except for the writing/reading part of it. I had put this together originally without the intention of bandwidth monitoring, but I've decided it would be a good thing to have.I want to have 2 monitoring types: Windows Session Bandwidth Total & All-Time Bandwidth Total (since the program was 1st run on the machine). The counter is on a Timer (2nd of 2), and I want it to write and add the label values each second into the file, then when Form3 is opened, to read the text file and show the results.
View 12 Repliesso I want to make a button in one of my programs that writes text to a file. I know how to do that part. I use:
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how to use the .settings files and was wondering several items.(for this example let's call the settings file SettingsFile.settings)
1) After a call like
settingsfile.default.highscore = 100
settingsfile.default.save()
When you graphically set up the settings file (in the settings grid) in the solution explorer you can give initial values... is there a way to get those values back after the above call?
2) If you send a software update and the user installs it, will the settings file values persist or reset?
3) Is there a way to iterate through every setting in your .settings file? like a:
for each X in settingsfile
I am using VS 2010 and I want to read the Text File values and place them into variables. This is my code
Me.OpenFileDialog1.FileName = Nothing
If Me.OpenFileDialog1.ShowDialog = System.Windows.Forms.DialogResult.OK Then
Me.TextBox2.Text = Me.OpenFileDialog1.FileName
filename = Me.TextBox2.Text
End If
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I am unable to move pointer to next line.
Ok, so today I wasted a bit of time looking for ways to use a text file to save login information. Basically, there are two fields, username and password, and two buttons, sign up and log in. When you click the log in button, I want it to verify the information entered in the fields, and when you click sign up, I want it to add the information to the file. It doesn't seem that difficult, but I'm have a lot of trouble finding a way to do it. I would be very grateful if I could find assistance with this on these forums.
P.S. If it was my decision it would obviously be using a database, but for this particular program I need to be using text files.
I currently have a bunch of text files I need to edit in a folder, I need to edit each file and remove the same line but not all files have this line, so I need to create a script that needs to check if the line exists then remove it.I have 1000s of files, that's why I need help to be able to create a script that does it for me instead of me editing each one manually.I am not sure on how to do this, but I am sure it is not difficult for people that have good experience with VB.net.
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