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Danny72
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Re: Automatically opening a TEXTEDIT.BBC file
« Reply #4 on: Sep 7^th, 2010, 2:56pm »

Thanks for the message.

I'm really struggling to understand what it is that I should literally put into the TEXTEDIT program. I have tried experimenting with the information given but cannot get anywhere.

Is it

PRINT "'"@cmd$"'"

just before the Main Loop

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Re: Automatically opening a TEXTEDIT.BBC file
« Reply #5 on: Sep 7^th, 2010, 5:38pm »

on Sep 7^th, 2010, 2:56pm, Danny72 wrote:

Is it PRINT "'"@cmd$"'" just before the Main Loop

At that point in the TEXTEDIT program the 'output window' is completely covered by the edit control. Therefore a PRINT statement inserted into the program, for debugging purposes, won't have a visible effect (it will be hidden behind the edit control)!

If you want to add a debugging line to your program I would suggest using a Message Box; that will display in front of the edit control so you will be able to see it:

Code:

      SYS "MessageBox", Hedit%, @cmd$, "Debug", 0

What this will show you is that @cmd$ contains the command-line parameter(s), if any, passed to your compiled program.

The main alteration that you will need to make to the TEXTEDIT program is to split PROCload into two parts: the part that prompts the user to select a file (which you want to bypass) and the part that actually loads the file (which you want to keep). Hopefully you can see how to do that.

Richard.

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JonR
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Re: Automatically opening a TEXTEDIT.BBC file
« Reply #6 on: Sep 7^th, 2010, 5:49pm »

When you compiled the test program and ran it passing a filename to the program what did you see?

Unfortunately adding the PRINT statement to TEXTEDIT.BBC program might not be useful as the printed text will likely be coevered by the edit control. You want to set the window title to the file name and load the file without opening the open file dialog box. Everything you need can be adapted from the appropriate procedure(s) in the code.

I'd prefer if possible not to give you the exact solution to this problem, I'd rather you wrote the code.

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