How to use ItemList Box to Display a Text File or Contents of a Text File

Keywords: 	  itembox askfiletext file text

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Question:

How might I go about using ItemList Box to display a text file?

Answer:

1. If all you want to do is display the file, use AskFileText.

2. Otherwise...

      fname="c:\temp\example.txt" ; your file
      fsize=FileSize(fname)
      bb=BinaryAlloc(fsize)
      BinaryRead(bb,fname)
      filetext=BinaryPeekStr(bb,0,fsize)
      BinaryFree(bb)
   

   Now use the filetext variable in your Dialog ItemBox.

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Article ID:   W12839

Filename:   Displaying Contents of a File in ItemBox.txt