Hi Thomas,
Actually another application is writing to the log file. I just need my
application to continue looping displaying anything that should enter
into the log file.
I found a visual basic script that is doing the same thing. I just need
to figure out how to do it in vb.net. CAn anyone help?
'scriptInAction is the control vairiable for the do util loop while
'scriptInAction is 1 the do loop continues
'either exit do or set scriptInAction to another number to end
'the script's loop
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dim scriptInAction
scriptInAction = 1
currentLine = "0"
Do While scriptInAction = 1
If logFile.AtEndOfStream <> True Then
currentLine = logFile.ReadLine
If InStr (currentLine, exitScript) Then
scriptInAction = 0
End If
If InStr (currentLine, masterName) And InStr (currentLine,
commandPhrase) Then
workingLine = StrReverse (currentLine)
workingLine2 = Split (workingLine, commandDelimiter, 1, 1)
workingLine = StrReverse (workingLine2)
WshShell.SendKeys ("/" & workingLine & "~")
End If
End If
WScript.echo currentLine
WScript.Sleep 50
currentLine = "holding"
Loop
Thomas Lutz wrote:
My guess is that you are opening the file and leaving it open while
you look for new data that is appended to the file by the other
software. This will not work because if you do not close the file and
re-open it, you will never know about any new data that is written to
it by the other program. You may also be blocking the other program
fom writing to the file.
The way that I would do things would be to check for the file to see
if it exists. If it does, then read in all the data from the file and
then append it all to the end of a second log file and then delete the
original log file. (I assume that the program that creates the log
file in the first place will automatically create the file if it does
not exist). Then all you need to do is to use a timer to check for the
original file every so often and if it exists, read it in, append it
to the second log file and delete the original exactly as described
above. If the file does not exist, then do nothing.
On 11 Jun 2006 20:25:08 -0700, "Paulers" <Su*******@gmail.com> wrote:
Hello all,
I have a log file that is appended to in real time by an application. I
would like to write a loop in vb.net that reads new entires and parses
them. I can get my application to open a file and read it all the way
through but I can not get it to continue looping after the file is
finished. I am trying to get the new additions to the log file to be
displayed in a textbox in real time. Any help is greatly appreciated.
