Onclick Load Text File Into Textbox
Hi all,
could anybody tell me how i can make a textbox display a .txt file when a button is clicked ie. when button1 is clicked the textbox would display the data in button1text.txt, when button2 is clicked the textbox would display the data in button2text.txt etc.
thankyou very much to anyone who could help me
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Posted on: 04-28-2004, 02:49 PM
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[as]
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{/as]
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_global.curTxt = ("Pic"+_global.curPic)
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}
}
};
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Pic0001=Testing 01
&Pic0002=Testing 02
&Pic0003=Testing 03
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Pic0002
Pic0003
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