Loading and Displaying a Text File

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Loading and Displaying a Text File

Document ID: IR10053

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The information in this article applies to:

• AutoPlay Media Studio 5.0 Standard Edition
• AutoPlay Media Studio 5.0 Professional Edition

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SUMMARY

This article describes how to load and display a text file.

DISCUSSION

To display a large amount of text on your page use the TextFile.ReadToString action, and display the results in a paragraph object.

To accomplish this in AutoPlay Media Studio 5.0:

1. Choose Object > Paragraph from the menu.
   
   
2. Insert the following code into any event in your application:
   
   text = TextFile.ReadToString("AutoPlay\\Docs\\large_text.txt");
Paragraph.SetText("Paragraph1", text);
   

MORE INFORMATION

For more information please see the following topics in the AutoPlay Media Studio 5.0 help file:

• Program Reference | Actions | TextFile | TextFile.ReadToString

KEYWORDS: AutoPlay Media Studio 5.0, Open, Text, File, Paragraph

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Last reviewed: September 26, 2003
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