Making a file open with my application

[CJMW]

So I'm making a custom text editor for web development. I am planning to unclude the use of projects to group common files together, however im having a hard time going about it.

I have a form that when opened, will give the user options to create a new project such as title, type (text, html, php etc), location to save and such. When the project is created I can get the folder to save, and a project file (contains information about the project just create) is created in the new folder.

Im having a hard time using the tree viewer to display the title of the new project, which would then display new files as child nodes.

I am also struggling to open the project file (.proj -> mad it up, its just a text file) to open with my application and open all of the relevent files included in the project in the editor.

... Whoah thats more than I expected to write... All comments will be greatley appreciated in advanced!

[Abdul-Ghani]

I am IT Engineer Want to work wit web programming

[The Diamonds]

Hi,

Can you be more specific were exactly you're struggling?

I've just looked into TreeViewer and I found it straightforward, here is what I've tried:

string[] files = new []{"file 1", "file 2"}; // files array that needs to be read from a file

TreeNode projectRootNode = treeView1.Nodes.Add("project_name"); // create root node of the project

// filling the project root node branch with the files
for (int i = 0; i < files.Length; i++)
    projectRootNode.Nodes.Add(files[i]);

You didn't say much about the (.proj) file although your thread title is all about it. How you manage that file? What type is it (e.g. xml)?

[CJMW]

Hey Diamons,

Yeah sorry I totally forgot to mention it! I have however fixed the treeView errors.

I have created a .proj file that contains the files within the specific project. At the moment, I have .proj's opening with Notepad++. However, whenever I choose to open them with my application nothing happens.

How can I get it so when I open it with the application, the app reads the .proj file, finds the relevent files that go with it, and display them using the tab pages function?

[The Diamonds]

Good news!
hmmm, let's see.. how do you open the file in your app? Can you share some code here?

An example of reading a file line by line and add each line to the listView would be:

System.IO.StreamReader sr = new System.IO.StreamReader("path_to_your_file"); // create stream reader

string fileName;
while ((fileName = sr.ReadLine()) != null) // read the file line by line
    projectRootNode.Nodes.Add(fileName); // add each line to the listview

sr.Close(); // close the stream

[CJMW]

Okay thats a good start thanks! The only problem with using your code is that the actual list of files starts 5 lines down. The other lines is infromation such as directory path on disk, title, date of creation, type etc.

I have tonnes of project code, however I havent even started to tackle this problem yet, I've been focusing on creating projects, adding files to them, updating projeict file and treeNodes etc.

When I start (soon hopefully) i'll post my solution on here :)

[Fenrir()]

If the lines that contain filenames are unique you can use Regex to identify them. Otherwise you will have to create an exclusion list.

[The Diamonds]

Glad that you found it helpfull.

One last advice.. use standards. Unless standards don't meet your requirements (and I highly doubt that) you SHOULD use it.

I recommend you use ini or xml formats in your .proj file, here are some useful links:
- ini file
- ini file parser
- learn xml
- xml c# example
- Google is your friend

Wish you luck.