Iversen

is there a way in Visual Basic 2008 to do so if i type in a rich text box it will make some thing like this

i am here

i was here

whit the colors in 1 box

hope i get some help here!

thanks

Andorsay

Try typing in the name of the RichTextBox and then put a period after it and you should come up with a lot of options for what you can do with that RichTextBox.

Example:

RichTextBox1.

See if there is one in the list called "ForeColor" and use that:

RichTextBox1.ForeColor = Color.Blue

- Andorsay

Iversen

what do you mean ? can you give me some kind of code that will show if i did type 1234 in the richtextbox then it will put a color on it
like

Richtextbox1.text = ("bla bla bla 1234 bla bla bla")

Andorsay

RichTextBox1.ForeColor = Color.Blue
RichTextBox1.Text = "bla bla bla"

Try that. Is the color of the text Blue?

or try...

RichTextBox1.ForeColor = Color.Blue
RichTextBox1.Text = "bla bla bla"
RichTextBox1.ForeColor = Color.Red
RichTextBox1.Text = RichTextBox1.Text & " bla bla bla"

- Andorsay

Iversen

Dosent work!

it just set all the text in the box to red/blue and just auto type bla bla bla and when i type something it just add it agin

any way else?

Iversen

Need help still
Some one out there HELP ME

Flyguy

Have a look at the SelText, SelPos, SelLen property of the RTB control

For the VB6 version of the RichTextBox control that is. Your question is about VB.Net, so moved the thread to the appropriate forum

Iversen

I dont understand what you mean 100% something **** select. someting and thanks for moving it

and i know the RGB thing

AtmaWeapon

RichTextBox was designed to edit rich text. Not so much to make a highlighting text editor.

Let's say you have the text "Hello" and you want to make it blue. First, you have to set the SelectionStart property to 0. This moves the cursor to before the "H". Next, you set the SelectionLength property to "5". That is the length of the word, so "Hello" will be highlighted. Finally, you set the SelectionColor property to blue. This sets the highlighted text to blue. Optionally, you'd then set SelectionStart and SelectionLength to what they were before you started highlighting.

If you want to highlight all of the text in the box, you have to do this for each line. The Lines property is a collection where each element represents a line of the text. The GetFirstCharIndexFromLine() method can tell you what the value for SelectionStart needs to be for each line.

Once you get past about 10 lines of text, this process is slow and has tons of flicker. I've had a lot of trouble with it keeping the cursor in the right place in the past. There's no way around it for the RichTextBox; if you want to make a highlighting text editor like Notepad++ then you'll get better results if you look for a third-party control.

Eradicator

You can get decent results if you edit the RTF manually, however you might run into problems because RTF uses a color table at the beginning of the document (something like "\r255\g0\b255"), and if you have to do twenty or thirty different colors it will get bulky fairly fast.

Iversen

Thanks guys, this realy helped me!

i want to take the time it takes!