demon101

i have been tryin to figure out how i can take like text i have in my program and have it auto save in a .txt file where the application is at.

i have searched and searched google and havent been able to find anything on it so if someone could help me i would like it.

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Sane

As far as I know, there's no feature in VB that allows you to do this automatically. You'll have to program a function that's triggered for the text field update event. You will program this function to grab the current value of the text field and save it to a .txt file. That way, every time the text is changed, you have that value updated in a text file.

Then when the program's loaded, use the "on load" event to trigger a separate function. You will program this function to do the inverse: grab the contents of the .txt file and put it back in the field of the text control.

milot

Or you can use System.Windows.Forms.Timer to call the save method e.g every 2 minutes, 2 hours etc.

mackenga

System.Windows.Forms.Timer isn't relevant to this forum - but the Timer control is. (Note: this is not VB.NET land, but classic VB land, unless I'm much mistaken...)

To use the timer control, just drop it onto a form, give it a sensible name and then catch its Timer event.

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milot

There are two different classes named "Timer", System.Threading.Timer, and Timer Control (System.Windows.Forms.Timer), thats the reason that I mentioned the whole namespace hierarchy.