Re: need help with "microsoft rich textbox v6.0" and LoadFile

From:

"AliR" <AliR@online.nospam>

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microsoft.public.vc.mfc

Date:

Thu, 3 Aug 2006 16:18:08 -0500

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COleVariant V1((short)1);

m_RICHTEXT_OUTPUT_CTL.LoadFile("c:\\test.txt",V1);

AliR.

"diverbeard" <jason.beard@ge.com> wrote in message
news:1154638039.962017.228460@h48g2000cwc.googlegroups.com...

Thanks for the fast reply.

I need just a little more hand holding because it's not working ... I'm
not new to VC++ but no expert either ... just learning as I go along.

my code is ...
m_RICHTEXT_OUTPUT_CTL.LoadFile("c:\\test.txt",1);

And get the following error ...
THB_GUIDlg.cpp(198) : error C2664: 'CRichtextoutput::LoadFile' : cannot
convert parameter 2 from 'int' to 'VARIANT'
No constructor could take the source type, or constructor
overload resolution was ambiguous

Thanks again for your help.

Jason

AliR wrote:

0 for RTF
1 for None RTF

If you imported the control throught visual studio, take a look at the h
file that it created for the control. line 90 has the enum for the
LoadSaveConstants

AliR.

<jason.beard@ge.com> wrote in message
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Im creating a VC++ MFC Form View application. I'm adding a microsoft
rich textbox control v6.0 control. I would like to open a plain text
file in the control using ...

MyRTBCtrl.LoadFile(LPCTSTR bstrFilename, VARIANT vFileType)

What do I enter for the argument VARIANT vFileType? I can't seem to
find any good documentation on this thing ... and most of the stuff in
the groups is VB.

Thanks

Jason

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