Curious: How does System.SimpleRead work?
Wednesday, May 2, 2012 by sViz | Discussion: DesktopX
Under the hood, I mean. I know how to use it, but how exactly does it work? What's it doing in the system? And what happens when you try to read a file that doesn't exist?
Reply #3 Thursday, May 3, 2012 9:26 PM
It's system reader for simple people like me.....
Reply #6 Monday, May 7, 2012 11:38 AM
For what it's worth, here's the Windows error I kept getting for my program:
Problem Event Name: APPCRASH
Application Name: netmessenger2_1.exe
Application Version: 0.0.0.0
Application Timestamp: 4b900caa
Fault Module Name: StackHash_fd5e
Fault Module Version: 6.1.7601.17725
Fault Module Timestamp: 4ec49b60
Exception Code: c0000374
Exception Offset: 000c380b
OS Version: 6.1.7601.2.1.0.256.1
Locale ID: 1033
Additional Information 1: fd5e
Additional Information 2: fd5e1090ca80046438fe8c5bc3e2c26f
Additional Information 3: 5fcb
Additional Information 4: 5fcb4ee5fa80075cf546dea713f2bcbe
Reply #8 Monday, May 7, 2012 1:58 PM
System.SimpleRead(path, param)
It reads a file from disk to a string variable.
Only param=1 is currently supported.
Example:
txtLog = System.SimpleRead(baseDir & "Data\mylog", 1)
Reply #9 Wednesday, May 9, 2012 4:42 PM
I have the source code . . . 
Basically it reads a full text document passed in the first parameter and returns a string with the file content.
Reply #10 Friday, May 11, 2012 12:00 PM
Thanks for looking into it. I was pretty sure it didn't used to conk when it tried to read a file that didn't exist. For this gadget I'll just have to go with FileSystemObject, instead.
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Reply #1 Thursday, May 3, 2012 5:36 PM
Up until a recent Microsoft Office update, it seemed System.Simpleread did nothing when trying to read a file that didn't exist. Now, it crashes the program. Took hours upon hours to figure that was the source of the problem. Which is why I ask if system.simplread is doing anything with Office or Sharepoint.