notepad

[peteyshrew]

i am creating a notepad in vs05 and i am trying to display the name of the file at the top of the screen when i open a file from desktop. this is the code i've got so far, instead of the file name it displays openfiledialog1. this is very anoying, any help would be appreciated. thanks this is code i got: Dim name As String = OpenFileDialog1.FileName With OpenFileDialog1 .Title = "select file" .InitialDirectory = "U:\MyDocuments" .DefaultExt = "rtf" .Filter = "rich text files(*.rtf)|*.rtf" .FilterIndex = 1 End With OpenFileDialog1.ShowDialog() If OpenFileDialog1.ShowDialog = Windows.Forms.DialogResult.OK Then rtb1.LoadFile(OpenFileDialog1.FileName) Else MsgBox.show("unknown error during file read") End If Me.Text = name

[Pete OHanlon]

Replace Me.Text = name with Me.Text = OpenFileDialog1.FileName. Actually, you would be better writing this section like this:

Dim fileName As String

If OpenFileDialog1.ShowDialog = Windows.Forms.DialogResult.OK Then
    fileName = OpenFileDialog1.FileName
End If

If fileName <> String.Empty Then
    rtb1.LoadFile(fileName)
    Me.Text = fileName
End If

Don't tell somebody that there was an unknown error just because they clicked Cancel in a dialog box. It is bad form.

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