Writing Files

[orcblood]

I think thats what its called. Anyway, I got the open file dialog working. Since I am a lazy bumb I have decided to make the program compatible with all files (that have text). However, I do not know how I would wright the text from the file into the edit box. Could someone help me here? I mainly want it so that it can open a .html or .htm, .c or .cpp, .h, .txt files. How would I do this I have no idea. So could some one either tell me how (prefereable with some example code) or tell me a URL that might help me. Thanks, orcblood

[MAAK]

If I understand you right, you want to read text from file and load it into and Edit control. If it is so then this is sample code for both reading both ANSI and UNICODE text files:

       CFile f;
       if(f.open("FILENAME.TXT, CFile::modeRead))
       {
           DWORD dwFLen = f.GetLength();
           //this short will be used to get the file header
           USHORT usHeader;
           f.Read(&usHeader, sizeof(USHORT));

           //UNICODE text files starts with value 0xFEFF
           if(usHeader == 0xFEFF)
           {
               //we are going to load the text into a character array
               wchar_t * filetxt;
               
               //allocate a charaters array one for null terminator
               filetxt = new wchar_t[dwFLen + 1];

               //clear the filetxt array
               memset(filetxt, 0, sizeof(wchar_t) * (dwFLen + 1));
               f.Read(filetxt, dwFLen);

               //use API function rather than MFC to be able
               //to read UNICODE and ANSI at the same time
               ::SetDlgItemTextW(this->GetSafeHwnd(), IDC_EDIT1, filetxt);
           }
           else
           {
               //ANSI files does not contain any headers, so we should
               //reset the file pointer
               f.SeekToBegin();
           
               //we are going to load the text into a character array
               char * filetxt;
               
               //allocate a charaters array one for null terminator
               filetxt = new char[dwFLen + 1];

               //clear the filetxt array
               memset(filetxt, 0, sizeof(char) * (dwFLen + 1));
               f.Read(filetxt, dwFLen);

               //use API function rather than MFC to be able
               //to read UNICODE and ANSI at the same time
               ::SetDlgItemTextA(this->GetSafeHwnd(), IDC_EDIT1, filetxt);
           }
           f.Close();
       }

[orcblood]

Where about would I place this? Would it be right under the open dailog? Thanks, I believe that you understood me correctly. orcblood

[MAAK]

I am sorry there was a little syntax error in the source code I submitted and I fixed it. The follwoing code shows how to put the file opening code after the file open dialog. if(openDlg.DoModal() == IDOK) { CFile f; if(f.open(openDlg.GetPathName(), CFile::modeRead)) . . . }