Console App Opening a Text File

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Hi everyone.

I curious if Xojo has a way that you can create a text file, append data to it, then open that text file all in a console application?

So far i have all the code to generate a text file with data in it, now im trying to open that file for verification that the data was inserted properly.

All of this is done on a Window’s machine but im willing to see the code for any operating system if it is Windows compatible.

Thanks

2

http://documentation.xojo.com/index.php/FolderItem.Launch should open the file with the default app for txt. Usually Notepad in Windows and TextEdit in OS X.

3

did you even attempt to look in the LangRef?

  dim f as FolderItem=SpecialFolder.Desktop.child("mytest.txt")
  dim txt_out as TextOutputStream
  txt_out=TextOutputStream.Append(f)
  txt_out.writeline "data"
  txt_out.close
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i did and none of it is working for me. Again i want to point out that i am using a CONSOLE application and when i use the FolderItem.Launch i get the error message of: “Type FolderItem has no member named ‘Launch’”

As for if i looked into the LangRef, again, yes i did and yes the TextInput and Output streams work for reading in the data i want to physically open the text file for viewing. i want Xojo to use the computer’s default program to open a text file.

So in this instance i want my console application to write data to a txt document. then open that very txt document in NotePad.

5

Use shell

dim s as new shell s.execute('Open /Users/Mitch/Desktop/myTextFile.txt")

You must use the full path of myTextFile.

In Windows replace “Open” by “Start”

6

As noted in the LangRef, FolderItem.Launch is not available for Console apps. But Michel’s code above should work fine.

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FUNCTION launch(extends f as folderitem)
  Dim cmd As String
  Dim sh As New shell
  #If TargetMacOS Then 
    cmd="OPEN"
  #ElseIf TargetWindows Then
    cmd="START"
  #Else
    Print "Launch feature not available for this OS"
    Return
  #EndIf
  sh.Execute cmd+" "+f.shellpath
END FUNCTION

Only for CONSOLE apps…