Reading and using Screen Coordinates from txt file

Question

Heya i've been working on this project. Link to Pastebin

And i wonder if its possible to read coordinates instead from the

txtX2 , txtY2 TextBox's

but rather from a text document.

And using those Coordinates in the Text Document instead.

If you dont understand what im saying please reply :P but if you look at the code you will probably understand.

Thanks :)

Answer 1

Assuming you have saved the coordinates in a text file with the following format:

<Coordinate1>,<Coordinate2>

You can do:

String contents = System.IO.File.ReadAllText();
String[] coordinates = contents.Split(',');

Now coordinates[0] is X and coordinates[1] is Y .

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If there are multiple lines in the file and you want to read one line in each timer tick, you can actually do something like this:

// class variable
private StreamReader reader;

// in constructor
reader = System.IO.File.OpenText("PATH");

// in destructor
reader.close();

// in timer
String line;
if ((line = reader.ReadLine()) != null)
{
    String[] coordinates = line.split(',');
    // now coordinates[0] is X and coordinates[1] is Y
}

Answer 2

Here is a pretty simple example of how to read from a text file:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/db5x7c0d.aspx