Edit STX Files Directly With Notepad
StudyX files are named by default with a .STX extension. If you need to view the
extension, click Tools>Folder Options>View and uncheck "Hide extensions for known
file types".
To Open STX file NORMALLY:
1. Locate the file. By default they are saved in My Documents\StudyX or in C:\Program
Files\StudyX
2. Double click the file.
NOTE: You can also open the file form StudyX by clicking the Home tab and then
clicking Open. Select the file you would like to open and then click the open button.
To Edit the Files Manually With Notepad:
1. Locate the file. By default they are saved in My Documents\StudyX or in C:\Program
Files\StudyX
2. Right click on the file and click Open With.
3. Then click Choose Program.
4. Scroll down and select Notepad. (click on notepad).
5. Click OK
The new StudyX file starts with the XML encoding. After that, the file version number
and count are in XML notes. Then, the StudyX database questions are listed. Each set has
a question, answer, right, and wrong. Every XML tag is
<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-16' standalone='yes'?>
<!-- StudyX® Data File VER2 (www.studyx.com) -->
<!-- Set Count(3) -->
<STUDYXDATABASE xmlns:xsi='http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance'>
<SET>
<QUESTION>Honolulu</QUESTION>
<ANSWER>Hawaii</ANSWER>
<RIGHT>0</RIGHT>
<WRONG>0</WRONG>
</SET>
<SET>
<QUESTION>Juneau</QUESTION>
<ANSWER>Alaska</ANSWER>
<RIGHT>0</RIGHT>
<WRONG>0</WRONG>
</SET>
<SET>
<QUESTION>Sacramento</QUESTION>
<ANSWER>California</ANSWER>
<RIGHT>0</RIGHT>
<WRONG>0</WRONG>
</SET>
</STUDYXDATABASE>
The old version of the StudyX file is made of several parts. The first number indicates the
number of question/answer sets in the file. Then the file alternates: question, answer,
number right, number wrong. Then repeats question, answer, number right, number
wrong.
OLD StudyX file:
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