Re: Import text to editbox from file

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Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2003 07:19:23 +1100

Hi "micke"

> This is a screen dump of a program working like the one I need and
> here is the htm file and the same file but in txt, I don't know if
> it is better to work with the htm file It doesn't matter, it's the
> same file but in different format.

If you have html components, you may be able to parse the html file
but it looks a nightmare to process without them.

The text-file is tricky but do-able.

> I don't know what to use, just how I want my program to look like,
> maybe I can use grid? But I want to name the fields (driver, horse
> etc)

There are 2 basic choices for showing the information, grid and form.

Grid is good for showing information about a lot of records (horses in
this case) at the one time but form is better for showing a lot of
information about a single record.

But it's not a case of grid *or* form. You could have both.

Have a look at http://w1.873.telia.com/~u87314324/karasve.htm. This is
a program that another "micke" and I have recently completed.

Do you want to edit the information or just to read it?

This is important since it determines which controls are best to use.

If you like to "unlock" my address below, and send me an email, we
could continue this off-group since the method I have for parsing the
file is rather long, tedious and. probably of little interest to
others.

--
Henry Bartlett
HABit utilities ( http://www.hotkey.net.au/~hambar/habit/ )
email: hambar@Spamlock.microtech.com.au.

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