ok well, the largest list would be somewhere in the area of 100,000 lines... I dont know how to use a dynamic array yet, so I am using listview. It would take almost 1 minute to load a list that large; and that is on a fast computer.
I want to do a progress bar yes! But I havent seen anything out there that really helps me do that so far.
I am trying to add messages as the list does different things (i.e. clear to say clearing list for long lists.. etc...), and of course I am having problems... lol Not to the point that I need to make a post I dont think. Maybe I should make a new post about adding a progress bar, since I have been trying that for about 2 days off and on. What do you think? The progrss bar i would like to do is inside a status bar on the bottom of my form. But learning the progress bar alone would be great as well.
The disabling of buttons that could cause problems sounds like a great idea! Maybe along with the progress bar, i could somehow give a percentage number complete at the top of my mainform. I dont know. What are your thoughts?
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Also, Since this has a fair amount of buttons and whatnot.. I thought I may as well start learning some events like mouseover changes button color, or plays a sound, or both... add some eye candy to this program. If i can do it on this and learn this now, I can add the different things I learn into any program I write from now on. Lots of different things to do with cosmetics in a program.. learning how to make it work is another however. I dont wont to have external dependencies for colors and sound for mouseovers unless there is no other way. One exe is all I want for this.
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I was thinking since a list FINALLY splits now, maybe to add different types of files to the load button such a *.doc, *.rtf, *.pdf, etc... when I try to l;oad a different type of file other than a text file (*.txt) i get some gibberish and no lines load. If that requires major work then no worries...
I also want to be able to add a "_" in between the numbered split files (i.e. out_1.txt, out_2.txt, etc...) I tried to l;ook at the code and make some changes but had no luck with that. Again, if it is a major hassle, then no worries there either.
I did find I could save a file in different formats... that was kinda neat.. maybe I could add an edit box to have it save automatically to whatever format. Again, some reading material on how to do that would be a great thing to have. lol
