Re: [Dev-C++] error in new line EDIT control

[Per W. <pw...@ia...>]

Did you test \r\n in the edit box?

Reading a text file "as text" only loads a \n into memory.

/Per W

On Tue, 7 Jun 2005, Noorez Kassam wrote:

> In my file handling, I'm ending up with something like this when I attempt
> to read from a text file and print it out to an EDIT control:  Hello|how are
> you today.  Instead of the new line in the EDIT, I get a small black line.
> Hear is the function...
>
> void OpenText(HWND main)
> {
>   char lpstrFile[256];
>
>   char inLine[256];
>   inLine[0] = '\0';
>
>   char buffer[5000];
>   buffer[0] = '\0';
>
>   LPOPENFILENAME openFileInfo = new OPENFILENAME;
>
>   getOFNproperties(main, openFileInfo, lpstrFile);
>
>   if( !GetOpenFileName(openFileInfo) )
>   {
>     MessageBox(main,"Could Not Open","ERROR",MB_OK | MB_ICONERROR);
>     return;
>   }
>
>   ifstream openTextFile(openFileInfo->lpstrFile);
>
>   while( !openTextFile.eof() )
>   {
>     openTextFile.getline(inLine,500);
>     //MessageBox(main,inLine,"Message", MB_OK);
>     strcat(buffer,inLine);
>   }
>
>   SetDlgItemText(main, IDC_MAIN_EDIT, buffer);
>
>   delete openFileInfo;
> }
>
> I also attached the whole program
>
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