VB Programmer with free time needed

[TheZsterBunny]

Hi,

I'm not a VB'er, nor do I have an interest in becoming one.

However, for an extracurricular assignment, a VB program would help me greatly. If anyone were willing to volunteer their time, i would be very greatful.

Alright, the program must generate a text file based upon user input. 2 strings will be given. Formatting tags are like basic HTML, but any buttons assisting in the creation would be welcome. Basic stuff. (Bold, Italic, Underline, Alignment, 5x )

Files would have the following structure

code:

&main= "STRING 1"& &body= "STRING 2"&

File names would be whatever they want .frf

I don't know VB, but any creation would be welcome.

-Z

[Brightguy]

So it just needs to output a file with two strings in it? And the HTML buttons would be like the ones available when posting a message here?

[TheZsterBunny]

pretty much.

There a few other things tho.

You can't include an image, quote, code or list.

Also, the URL tag must also set the font blue and underlined. the end tag must revert.

I know nothing of this language, but from what i've seen, its easier than turing for this kind of thing.

-Z

[Andy]

heh learn c++ and do it wit MFC and u'll feel the pain like i did last yr

[Brightguy]

You could do this in any language really (just need string manipulation functions). I'd say VB makes it easiest to use text boxes/buttons though.

Anyway, I whipped up something for you, although I'm sure I misunderstood you on a few (or more) details... It basically just allows you to add HTML tags into two text boxes, and it will save the contents of the text boxes in the format that you specified.

[TheZsterBunny]

Windows Popup error wrote:

Component COMDLG32.OCX or one of its dependencies not correctly registered: a file is missing or invalid

-Z

[rdrake]

TheZsterBunny wrote:

Windows Popup error wrote:

Component COMDLG32.OCX or one of its dependencies not correctly registered: a file is missing or invalid

Do you have the VB runtime files installed on that machine? If not, either create an installer and install it that way using the package and deployment wizard, or install the VB Runtime Files.

[Brightguy]

Yeah, you'll need the VB runtimes if you don't have those installed. And I also used the common dialog control. Does comdlg32.ocx install with the runtimes? If not, there should be plenty of sites that you can download it from. Actually, I had it on an old site here. (Maybe I should actually update something there...) Extract it into your windows /system drive.

[TheZsterBunny]

It works now


Beautiful.

How easy was that to do?

-Z


--edit---

hrm. the body tag seems to be limited to only one line. is that easily fixed?

-Z

[Brightguy]

I'm glad I can help. Sorry about the one-line thing, I disabled the Enter key because I wrote a very simple loading procedure that wont work for multiple lines. You could get around that by holding down Ctrl or just pasting a new line character into the text box, but I'll attach a new version that allows you to press Enter. I didn't change the loading procedure though (even though you didn't specify that, it was simple enough to add so I did).

It was pretty easy to do, basically everything was just string manipulation. The other thing was making the text boxes resizable with the form, which is simple enough as well. I can post the code if anybody is interested... Maybe I could turn it into a tutorial or something. I don't know how helpful it would be though... and then I guess you have to actually have to explain what you're doing Do people actually read the tutorials?

[TheZsterBunny]

Tutorials are great. I've written a few myself.

But with 3 midterms, 47 BTX assignments and an MP3 Database looming over my head, i've very little time ^_^


speaking of which, back to study!

-Z