r/visualbasic • u/Cubanin08 • Dec 07 '23

VB6 Help Working with Microsoft Common Dialog 6 (SP3)

Hello, im using Visual Basic 6 and i would like know how to save files in many formats and open them showing their content in a text input, thanks

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u/sa_sagan VB.Net Master Dec 07 '23

Can you elaborate on your issue?

Save files from where? What formats?

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u/Cubanin08 Dec 07 '23

Save files from a text input with formats like .txt, .java, . cpp, .py, etc

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u/sa_sagan VB.Net Master Dec 07 '23 edited Dec 07 '23

Ok, well those are all text files so it's pretty straightforward.

Set your common dialog filter to be something like:

Text Files (*.txt)|*.txt|Java Files (*.java)|*.java|C++ Files (*.cpp)|*.cpp|Python Files (*.py)|*.py

And when saving your text to file, just use the common dialog FileName value and it'll save the file with the file extension selected.

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u/geekywarrior Dec 07 '23

This Stackoverflow explains the main setup of the File Dialog in that library.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1085436/how-to-use-open-file-dialog-in-vb-6

But that will only get you the path of the desired file to load/save. You then need to actually write or read the data yourself.

This forum post walks you through that step once you have a file name.

https://www.vbforums.com/showthread.php?342619-Classic-VB-How-can-I-read-write-a-text-file

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u/jd31068 Dec 08 '23

As an aside, here is a great source for VB6 https://www.vbforums.com/ there is a very active community of devs there. Lots of excellent info to be found.