Dear all
I am totally new to visual C#. Whilst I can sort of manage console apps, I easily get lost when it comes to coding forms.
I am currently making an "app launcher" which reads a text file line by line. Each line is a path to a useful program somewhere else on my pc. A link label is automatically made for each path (i.e. each line) in the text file.
I would like the .Text property of the link label to be an abbreviated form of the path (i.e. just the file name, not the whole path). I have found out how to shorten the string in this way (so far so good !)
However, I would also like to store the full path somewhere - as this is what my linklabel will need to link to. In Javascript I could pretty much just add this property to linklabel like so: mylinklabel.fullpath=line; (where line is the current line as we read through the text file, and fullpath is my "custom" property that I would like to try and add to the link label. I guess it needs declaring, but I am not sure how.
Below is the part of my code which creates the form, reads the text file line by line and creates a link label for the path found on each line:
private void Form1_Load(object sender, EventArgs e) //on form load
{
//System.Console.WriteLine("hello!");
int counter = 0;
string line;
string filenameNoExtension;
string myfile = @"c:\\users\matt\desktop\file.txt";
//string filenameNoExtension = Path.GetFileNameWithoutExtension(myfile);
// Read the file and display it line by line.
System.IO.StreamReader file = new System.IO.StreamReader(myfile);
while ((line = file.ReadLine()) != null)
{
//MessageBox.Show(line); //check whats on each line
LinkLabel mylinklabel = new LinkLabel();
filenameNoExtension = Path.GetFileNameWithoutExtension(line); //shortens the path to just the file name without extension
mylinklabel.Text = filenameNoExtension;
//string fullpath=line; //doesn't work
//mylinklabel.fullpath=line; //doesn't work
mylinklabel.Text = filenameNoExtension; //displays the shortened path
this.Controls.Add(mylinklabel);
mylinklabel.Location = new Point(0, 30 + counter * 30);
mylinklabel.AutoSize = true;
mylinklabel.VisitedLinkColor = System.Drawing.Color.White;
mylinklabel.LinkColor = System.Drawing.Color.White;
mylinklabel.Click += new System.EventHandler(LinkClick);
counter++;
}
file.Close();
}So, how can I store a full path as a string inside the linklabel for use in my onclick function later on?
Many thanks in advance
Matt
