Text editor

I want to program a text editor to demonstrate use of fstream. Can you create a File Edit etc. menu using C++? And how do I allow users to open files and freely edit them?

If you want to use a GUI, this is the wrong forum. Otherwise, just ask for the name, and open it up with a fstream.

what Lurker probably means is, is that menus etc can be written in C++, but it is done in the context of a graphical user interface, such as Windows, not in a console using standard C++. Therefore the Windows forum may be a better place to ask this question.

Users can get files and edit them using a console, it just isn't as pretty or "user friendly" as it is with a graphical user interface that allows menus, etc.

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Originally posted by elad
Users can get files and edit them using a console, it just isn't as pretty or "user friendly" as it is with a graphical user interface that allows menus, etc.

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Yeah, but console is faster and much more portable (depending on the code, of course :D ).

A simple line-oriented text editor, like MS-DOS's EDLIN.COM, is the easiest and most portable type of text editor to code. Try that.

How do I program and use a console. Also, I'm having a problem with my current code. The strings aren't working properly, it's only writing one character to the file so it's only importing one character from the file.

Code:

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#include <stdlib.h>
#include <iostream.h>
#include <fstream.h>

int main()
{

    char file[5000];//text to be submitted to file
    char file_a[5000];
    cout<<"This is a text editor.\n";
    cout<<"Begin typing and press enter when you want to save.\n\n";
    cin>>file;//input to file
    cout<<"\n";//new line
    ofstream fileone("text.txt", ios::ate);
    fileone<<file;
    fileone.close();
    ifstream filetwo("text.txt");
    filetwo>>file_a;
    cout<<file_a;
    filetwo.close();
    system("PAUSE");
    return 0;
}

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Thanks.