VB Help

[Sintoras]

I'm not sure if there's a place to post this here since theres no Programming forum but I thought someone might be able to help.

I'm a beginner with a little experience in VB. CUreently I'm using Express 2005. Now I have a problem: I made a toolstrip with a textbox which functions as a "console". You can type in different commands and it responds to them. After I added a save/ load function it stopped working, it complains about and illegal converting of the sybols "-string" to type boolean. What am I diong wrong. heres the code:

    Private Sub ToolStripButton1_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles ToolStripButton1.Click
        If ToolStripTextBox1.Text = "-color" Or "-Color" Then
            ColorDialog1.ShowDialog()
            TextBox1.ForeColor = ColorDialog1.Color
        End If
        If ToolStripTextBox1.Text = "-Font" Or "-font" Then
            FontDialog1.ShowDialog()
            TextBox1.Font = FontDialog1.Font
        End If
    End Sub

Thanks!

 

[enouwee]

If ToolStripTextBox1.Text = "-color" Or [B]ToolStripTextBox1.Text =[/B]  "-Color" Then

or better: just convert your TextBox1 to lowercase, which also covers "-CoLoR"

 

[mase]

If ToolStripTextBox1.Text = "-color" Or [B]ToolStripTextBox1.Text =[/B]  "-Color" Then

or better: just convert your TextBox1 to lowercase, which also covers "-CoLoR"

LCase(ToolStripTextBox.Text) = "-color"

 

[Sintoras]

Thanks a lot, it worked!

I have another question: How could I make a list of the last opened(text)files by the programm? i mean kind of like the function Word or any other Text Program has.

The only way I can think of is, when the program opens or saves a textfile it adds the directory to a textfile. This file is read each time the programm opens up, adding the directory of the files to a list on the menu.
How would I accomplish this?
Or is there an easier way?

 

[enouwee]

The only way I can think of is, when the program opens or saves a textfile it adds the directory to a textfile. This file is read each time the programm opens up, adding the directory of the files to a list on the menu.

Unless Visual Basic provides such a feature out-of-the-box, you have to store the list somewhere, be it in a file or in the registry.

Something like this?

 

[Sintoras]

Yes, more or less. I only seem to have a simple problem, which is how to assign indexes to the menustrip items.
I think I've done it before but now I can't remember. It isn't merge index, is it?

 

[Rapmaster]

You can also put Option Compare Text at the top of your code instead of converting everything to lowercase for comparison

see http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/8t3khw5f(VS.80).aspx