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Thanks Pebe.....

and yes this works great

Sure, I'll post that section of the code: 'LOAD PLANTS FROM FILE TO SCREEN FH = FREEFILE CL% = 3 CN% = 1 CT% = 9 OPEN "PLANTS.DAT" FOR INPUT AS #FH DO WHILE NOT EOF(FH) LINE INPUT #FH, INP$ Y = INSTR(INP$, ":") IF Y = 0 THEN STOP L = Y - 1 R = Y + 1 IF CN% < 11 THEN LOCATE CT%, 3: COLOR 4, 0: PRINT ...

Not really, I am told my question is not direct enough. So let me start over. Once I get information onto the screen for a user, how do I add navigation to the screen. When I say navigation: The user is able to use the arrow keys to move a highlighted area to the line they want. Once this is accompl...

no
the file name is plants.dat
each line in the file are just like below:

100:benhill
300:athens
400:lithonia


the 3 lines above is exactly what is in the file. I am able to pull the information from it and sort on the screen, but I'm not sure where to go from there.

it is a dat file that has that content in it. That is a example of what each line in the file looks like

Need some help on how to create a on screen navigation. I am pulling information from a flat file in the following format: 100:job1 200:job3 400:job6 I know how to capture keys using the inkey command, but what I am wanting to do is have the first line (from flat file) highlighted and allow the user...

Sorry to bother everyone, I'm new to QB and need a little help. I have gotten to a point where I need to store data and I figure the easiest way to do so would be to write/read to a flat file. What I could find only worked partly. I am able to OPEN the file or create it if it doesn't exist by doing ...