Hi Neil, Nice to read your code. Here are some comments on it:
> > PUBLIC SUB Button1_Click() > > DIM lineIn AS String > DIM fileIn AS File > DIM fname AS String > fname = "/home/neilwin/basic/trial.txt" > Benoit introduced a new way of writing such an OPEN, you already received messages which proposed it. Personally, I also prefer writing it the old way as you do, but do not be surprised if some day it isn't accepted anymore ;-) > OPEN fname FOR READ AS #fileIn > LINE INPUT #fileIn, lineIn Why do you delete the textbox and then concatenate the new string to it? Concatenating would only make sense if you left the existing string untouched, i. e. this line > result.Text = "" deletes the existing string and this line > result.text = result.text& lineIn fills it with the new one anyway. You could save a line by just writing result.text = lineIn The following line is needless when you read from a file: > FLUSH #fileIn It is only needed when you write into a stream which is buffered, just to make sure everything has been definitely written on disk prior to closing it. > CLOSE #fileIn > > END > > There is also a text box which I have renamed result. I make a few changes > to the line of text and then I click on another button to write the changed > file back to the hard disk. Here is the code > > PUBLIC SUB Button3_Click() > > DIM fileIn AS File > DIM fname AS String > fname = "/home/neilwin/basic/trial.txt" Here I would say that you missed WRITE in the line > OPEN fname FOR CREATE AS #fileIn it should read OPEN fname FOR WRITE CREATE AS #fileIn at least this is the way I do it... > WRITE #fileIn, result.Text If you would like to use FLUSH, this would be the place to put it, but I never used it and have no bad experience with it. As far as I remember, CLOSE will flush the stream anyway. > CLOSE #fileIn > > END Anyway, for simple textfile input/output, File.Read and File.Save will be your friends. By the way, the other day I found that vb.net also offers both ways, but when you use their version of File.Save, you get a single UTF-8(?) character set at the beginning of the string. Actually, this made it useless for me. I don't know why Microsoft is doing such things, and of course they won't tell you in the documentation what it is supposed to be good for. They just recommend to use this instead of opening the files. Good to have Gambas ;-) Regards Rolf ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Centralized Desktop Delivery: Dell and VMware Reference Architecture Simplifying enterprise desktop deployment and management using Dell EqualLogic storage and VMware View: A highly scalable, end-to-end client virtualization framework. Read more! http://p.sf.net/sfu/dell-eql-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Gambas-user mailing list Gambas-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gambas-user
