I am new in visual basic and I came up with a problem. I have text file with names in it and I want in a textbox everytime the user hits a button randomly choose a name from it.
View 1 Repliesi wanna make a program for my little brother, that allows u to input a name then to display a msgbox with pres coded phrases such as "your a good boy" or "your a bad boy". my problem is how do i tell vb to randomly choose between the two phrases, not keeping on choosing the same one?
View 14 Repliesi wanna read lines from a text file randomly until all the lines are read & wanna set a time interval in each two words apart. think a piece of code to do that in vb.net?
View 2 Replieshow to get a program to read a text file randomly.
I want to be able read text into a variable without running into the end of file.
Anyway, I'm a teacher and am writing a program that simply shows kids a word on a flashcard. There are 2 buttons, 1 to read the word and 1 to go to a new work. There are going to be 300 words. Really I'm just testing it right here. What I want to know is should I be inputting all the words right into the code like I did with "hi" and "not 1" (Don't ask. those are just the 2 random words I picked to test this out with). OR is there a better way (maybe somehow to type all the words on a text file and have the program randomly pull one of them (I don't know how to do this).
Here is the code so far:
Public Class Form1
Dim word
Private Sub Button1_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click
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I have made my program but I want to give users the option of choosing a custom color for text. I have an inputbox that works and then converts it to Color.whatever. But seeing as the user types in what they want and it is not done by the program itself it can throw exceptions.
Dim directresponse As String
Dim actualcolor As String
Dim isgood As Boolean
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That is my Sub, it will make Color.(userinput) but I need to check if Color.(userinput) is actually a color that VB.NET can understand and add set.
I have tried "System.Drawing.Color" I get told it is a type and cannot be used in this context.use System.ComponentModel.TypeDescriptor to convert it to a color and check if it is real and then set it.
I'm working with a connection to a Access db. I noticed that when the mdb file is not found in the location it should be, an exception OleDbException is thrown. I would like to create some kind of form where the user specify the new position of the Access mdb file to continue to work. Then, it would be useful to save the new location as well I suppose. But, where do I have to handle that exception?
View 6 RepliesI have a listbox with file names in them, I want to be able to view the contents of those files by using a textbox on the side
Code I tried below:
Dim data As String
data = My.Computer.FileSystem.ReadAllText(ListBox1.SelectedItem)
TextBox1.Text = data
I have a program issue I am trying to work on. I have multiple comboboxes(12 total) on a form.I am attempting to update some settings from what ever the user selects from the combo boxes. I am trying to keep the code as small as possible, so I thought about having all the comboboxes have similar names only different by a number being changed at the end. (ex: cbo_1, cbo_2, cbo_3, etc...)And using a For next loop to advance through each combobox and update the settings as the for next loop advances.(This might be a stupid way of doing it, but its the first idea that came to mind.)
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I want to randomly input a text line from a .txt to different labels in my program. So far I have this:
Dim FILE_NAME As String = "question.txt"
If System.IO.File.Exists(FILE_NAME) = True Then
Dim objReader As New System.IO.StreamReader(FILE_NAME)
Dim question(5) As String
Dim line As String = ""
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This works perfectly, but as you can see there is no randomization, it just runs through each line. I want one out of every three lines to be chosen. My text file, on each line, has question tab answer tab answer tab answer tab answer tab correct answer. So for the first inputted question i want it to chose one of the first three lines, second question chose a line between line 4,5 and 6. etc.
I have one combobox, two buttons (Add and View) and listbox. When I click button Add text from combobox is added to text file. This is code for Add button:
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Looking for a bit of help with some code im working on. I want to randomly input a text line from a .txt to different labels in my program. So far i have this:
Dim FILE_NAME As String = "question.txt"If System.IO.File.Exists(FILE_NAME) = True Then Dim objReader As New System.IO.StreamReader(FILE_NAME)
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This works perfectly, but as you can see there is no randomization, it just runs through each line. I want one out of every three lines to be chosen. My text file, on each line, has question tab answer tab answer tab answer tab answer tab correct answer. So for the first inputted question i want it to chose one of the first three lines, second question chose a line between line 4,5 and 6. etc.
How to use the signs "+", "-", "*", "/" as label text randomly. I am trying to create a math game for my kids. There I need a random sign to display every time they get new question to solve. I am able to display values [random numbers] but could not able to use this signs randomly as a single label text.
View 8 Repliesi have a loop in here what suppose to add a rondomly choosen number and show it on the label .text increase every time by the the same number when appear. It does not do it correctlythat is the
Private Sub licz()
Dim pbs() As PictureBox = {PictureBox1, PictureBox2, PictureBox3, PictureBox4, PictureBox5}
Dim las() As Label = {Label1, Label2, Label3, Label4, Label5, Label6, Label7, Label8,
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Right now I have a program that checks login credentials against my Access(2003) database.It works, but the problem I'm having is that it's checking if the file.exist to frequently and with no real pattern. How I'm doing it isI have a My.Setting that saves the file path string as well as the connection string, during form_load I check if the My.Setting path string exist, if not then use an openfiledialog to find the file. Right now I have the database in a public drive, which is why I think that my program thinks that the file doesn't exist sometimes. This is how I'm doing all of the above:
'Some global variables commented out
'Dim log As String = My.Settings.loginStr
'Dim logCon As String = My.Settings.loginCon
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The topic of my project is : Electronic Examination
How to access files randomly from the database in Visual Basic.
i'm running Visual Basic 2008 Express Edition (latest service pack ... 9.0.30729.1 SP) on XP Pro SP3 with .Net Framework version 3.5 SP1 I have a rather large project I've imported from Visual Studio 2003 (Standard).The project compiles and runs just fine ... my compiled program itself never crashes.
But while I actually have the code up in the IDE, and simply adding/deleting code the whole IDE will randomly crash (usually without warning) and I loose my changes since last save.If/when I do get some hint of why it crashed, I get a window about illegal whitespace or something.... but that's rare ... usually it just crashes without warning and the whole IDE completely shuts down instantly. just deleting/adding a character is enough to trigger it maybe once every 30 minutes.
This is on a computer that is otherwise very rock solid .... no other program ever crashes, etc.
Hi, i'm trying to use the treeview to display the text of a rtf (rich text file) file when an specific node if clicked.HomeOMGWOOTFor example, if i pick OMG, i want the text of lol.rtf to be displayed on a richtextbox. But somehow i just can't manage to get it... I know to import the text of a .txt file to a textbox, but using the treeview makes it more complicated.This is the code im using right now:
Private Sub TreeView1_NodeMouseClick(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.Windows.Forms.TreeNodeMouseClickEventArgs) Handles TreeView1.NodeMouseClick
Select Case e.Node.Index
Case 0
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Another thing is, that i can't import the *.rtf text into a richtextbox and i don't know why.
The code is very simple.
If File.Exists(strFileMovingTo) Then File.Delete(strFileMovingTo)
If File.Exists(strFileMovingTo) Then
Call SendEmail(Globals.EmailInternetTeam, "dev-sql@fad.co.uk", "Display Jpg
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However a FileNotFoundException exception is thrown during File.Copy even though its wrapped in a If File.Exists ... End If to check its existance.
The great thing is if you run this through the debugger it nearly always works, when released as an app it almost never works.
Basically what i want to do is when a command button is clicked and it has run the code at then end i want a label to display one string out of many at random. How would i declare the various strings and then get it to display one at radnom
View 7 RepliesHow do I randomly select 1 string from some Text? For example: Main text:
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I'm trying to download a file using ftp and then using a streamreader to read it and write it to a text file. The problem is, when I download the file and read it, either it did not get all the data or it stops writing the data to the local file and doesnt produce any error, it just sits there. I've tried it with many different files from the ftp site and this always happens.
Private Sub Download(ByVal stateURI As String, ByVal userName As String, ByVal pWord As String)
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The next step is I need to build a randomizer to randomly select a row and read the columns of that row into varibles.I have a working randomizer that can randomly pick a number between min and max values but what I don't know if how to select a row / How to find out how many rows are available and how to read the values into varibles.Am I right in declaring an Integer Varible then using:
AvailableRows = DDT.Rows.Count
Then use my Random Function to pick a number between 0 and AvailableRows
what I want is to select random items from a CheckedListBox and then print them to a sheet of paper. I also want to define how many random items are checked via a TextBox. Let's say I have 50 items in the CheckedListBox and I want to randomly select only 10 (more or less - user defined via the TextBox) of them and print them to a sheet of paper.
View 3 RepliesWhat's the fastest way to randomly generate numbers, either randomly or simulating random? I don't really need a true random number generator, it would be acceptable to simulate random. I tried other random simulation methods but none were faster than this. Here's the fastest way I have now:
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I am using Visual Basic 2008.I am trying to code a simple "show and hide" game where pictures are generated behind a buttonThese pictures need to be generated randomly from my resources. i have got as far as declaring the random number, but am having problems with using a image as avairible which can then be used in a picture box. i have tried "image" but i am having no luck!
View 4 RepliesI have a question about an array of string and random. I have an arry of string i.e Dim testArrayString() As String = {"Orange", "Apple", "London", "Sydney", "anything"} I want to show the each element of the above array randomly one by one in a message box....and also stores that randomly generated string from that array into an another variable... How would i do that... i have no clue
View 5 RepliesI am creating a "Who wants to be a millionaire" game. Lets say I have 100 questions in a listbox. How can i randomally select a question by clicking a button.
View 11 RepliesI need to get a button to enter the applications subfolder and randomly select 1 file to be played in the windows media player COM which i have put in the form. I have tried creating a shuffling playlist but i cant get it to stop after one file is played (it just goes on shuffeling to another file, and i really do not want a playlist). I manage to create a batch file to be started to randomly pick a file in that folder, but when i do this the file is being played in the systems default player..
View 2 Repliesi am working on read line by line . At each line that my app read , i added a event . How do i read a text file till the end and Stop it? there is how it work :
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