Output to RTF, Format is being deleted by C++

[muthuivs]

I am now trying to print the output to a RTF template that will defintely work since I have my formatting saved in the template but once my program writes to it , the formatting in the RTF is all deleted. Any Idea how to get around that? It doesn't even save the page setup for printing.


MuthuIVS

 

[Salem]

Hard to say without seeing some code.

If you're reading from a template and mixing in your content, then you need to output the results to a different file. There is no 'insert' function like a text editor.

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[muthuivs]

But how do I transfer the data to my template file to print? As for code: Here is the code where I call to opent the rtf file, then attempt to write to it. It writes to the file but my formatting in the file is gone.

ofstream fout("c:/Program Files/MyRenamer/LabelTemplate.rtf");

for(int i=101; i<=180; i++)
{

if (counter == 1)
{
str1.str("");
str1<<clientcode<<loccode<<datecode<<initialcode<<agentcode<<i<<left;
fout<<str1.str().c_str()<<"\t\t";
counter++;
}
else if (counter == 2 || counter == 3)
{
str1.str("");
str1<<clientcode<<loccode<<datecode<<initialcode<<agentcode<<i<<left;
fout<<str1.str().c_str()<<"\t\t";
counter++;
}
else if (counter == 4)
{
str1.str("");
str1<<clientcode<<loccode<<datecode<<initialcode<<agentcode<<i<<left;
fout<<str1.str().c_str()<<"\t";
counter = 1;
}


}

 

[Salem]

Well you have to do something like

ifstream fin("c:/Program Files/MyRenamer/LabelTemplate.rtf");
ofstream fout("c:/Program Files/MyRenamer/result.rtf");

Assuming that you want to end up with something like
<template><data><template>

- You read from fin and write to fout until you get to the point you want to insert your data.
- Then write your data, as you do at present.
- Then read from fin and write to fout the remainder of the template.

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[muthuivs]

How do you read a template though? Aren't templates page margins, tab distances and so on. How do you read stuff like that and write it to another file?

 

[Salem]

One character at a time.
At it's most basic level, files are just sequences of bytes.


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[muthuivs]

Its strting to work, this is what I am doing, I am first trying to just read the template and print it to another file:

The only question now is do I need to clear the char variable everytime I read a charachter? If so would char buffer = ' ' , work?

Code


ifstream fin("c:/Program Files/INPUT.rtf");
ofstream fout("c:/Program Files/OUTPUT.rtf");
while(!fin.eof())
{
//buffer is delared as char
fin>>buffer;
tout<<counter<<": "<<buffer;
counter++;
fout<<buffer;

}
fin.close();
fout.close();

 

[muthuivs]

Thanks Salem...it works now. I thought it was the same as writing to a text file!! I guess not. have a great weekend.


MuthuIVS