[hutchy4122]

Hi guys, I'm making a program that can store user-inputted recipes and retrieve them. I am having problem with displaying the retrieved recipe. Everything works up to the point after inputting the data from a text file into variables. This seems to work, but the program has decided not to carry out any of the code following it. I even tried to display a simple message box, but even that didn't work.

Here is my code:

Private Sub EditRecipe_Load(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Me.Load
        strFilePath = My.Application.Info.DirectoryPath & "\" & strOpenedRecipe & ".txt"
        'strOpenedRecipe is a public variable assigned a value in the previous form.
        MsgBox(strFilePath)
        'This message box says that there is no problem with the file path
        FileSystem.FileOpen(intFileIndex, strFilePath, OpenMode.Input)
        FileSystem.Input(intFileIndex, strRecipe)
        'If I put a "MsgBox(strRecipe)" in here it shows the correct value for the strRecipe variable
        FileSystem.Input(intFileIndex, intPeople)
        FileSystem.Input(intFileIndex, intIngredients)
        FileSystem.FileClose(intFileIndex)
        'But anything after this point doesn't seem to work. If I put another "MsgBox(strRecipe) in here it does not    display it

        ReDim strIngredients(intIngredients - 1)
        ReDim strQuantities(intIngredients - 1)
        ReDim strUnits(intIngredients - 1)

        lblRecipe.Text = strRecipe
        txtPeople.Text = intPeople
        lboxIngredients.Items.Clear()

        For i = 0 To UBound(strIngredients)                          'All of this code doesn't seem to be performed
            FileSystem.Input(intFileIndex, strIngredients(i))
            FileSystem.Input(intFileIndex, strQuantities(i))
            FileSystem.Input(intFileIndex, strUnits(i))
            lboxIngredients.Items.Add(strQuantities(i) & " " & strUnits(i) & " of " & strIngredients(i))
        Next

        FileSystem.FileClose(intFileIndex)
    End Sub

I have never encountered anything like this before, and I was wondering if you guys could help.

Many thanks,

Matt

[modi123_1]

Start with the basics. First wrap all of that in a try catch. Then slap a breakpoint at the top of that event and step through each line of code. Typically if code stops working it's because something bombed out in that method.

[hutchy4122]

Thanks so much. It told me exactly what I had done wrong. Problem solved. +1 for you