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Hi stil new to opus pro.

now what i am trying to do is when i click on a button the number associated with the button displays in the MainDisplay text box. Got this working and all but now i am trying to get anything that is displayed in the MainDisplay to display in another text box called changeThis. Now i am unsure if you are allowed to use

Display.SetSelection(0,-1);
Display.ReplaceSelection(stringEntered);

twice? Also i tried to write the string that is entered to write to a .txt file. Is this the correct function to do this?

var changeThis = OpenFile("c:\\StrinEnterSave.txt")
changeThis.Write(stringEntered)

thanks

Ok so i got it to write the string entered to the txt file but how do i tell it to write an already entred string to the txt file.
U say

textObj.WriteLine("Hello World")

but i want to write the string that is already entered like say for instance on a calculator you pres 558, i want that to write to the txt so to save that value. Is there a way to do this?

haha ok I got the first post working to! woot!

...anyway i am stil looking for a way to store an already entered string to the text file

i tried

var textObj = OpenFile("c:\\myText.txt")
textObj.WriteLine("Hello World")

and replaced "Hello World" with the name of the variable, but then it just writes out [FileObject]

It sounds like you're using the name of the actual OBJECT, as seen in the display tree rather than a variable.

If you add a Text Input Box to the screen and then edit its properties, there is a tab called "text input". In here, you specify the variable that will hold the data. This is the value used when writing to disk in place of "hello world".

Mack

Youre right. Thank you, got it working now!