Introduction
The RichTextBox is a additional VB component that comes with Visual Basic Professional
and Enterprise Edition. This control allows your program to create formatted
text (i.e. bulleted, bold and coloured text) in RTF (Rich Text Format). This
file format can then be read by other programs like WordPad and MS Word. It
could be use in two main ways.
1) You could program your application like a Word Processor, which would give
your user much more freedom than just plain text
2) Use the control in an application where it would be beneficial to the user
if you colour certain portions of text. E.G in a HTML editor, where it makes
tags one colour, and text another.
<p>THIS IS TEXT </P>
To add the Rich Text Box control to your project click Project|Components.
Check the box next to Microsoft Rich TextBox Control. Click OK
REQUIRED FILES
If you will be installing a program using the RichTextBox control, you
need to distribute the following files:
RichTx32.ocx - 200KB
RichEd32.dll - 171KB
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Posted by mmarksbury on 24 Apr 2008
This is long past the topic post date but...
I used the selection method (where you select text and then update it), for formatting the output of an application's process in a RTF. ...
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Posted by magiel on 06 Jan 2007
I am had the same proplems;
RichTextBox1.SelectionFont.Bold
RichTextBox1.SelectionFont.Underline etc are readonly
Solved them the following way
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Posted by Verdi on 21 Sep 2006
Kylua, your efforts were not wasted...
You have probably saved me a week's worth of head-pounding. Why it is so difficult to programmatically modify RTF using this control is beyond me. All...
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Posted by Kylua on 31 Jul 2006
I spent AGES working thru this one and couldn't find it anywhere!
The basic problem is that you have to update the richtextbox.rtf, not .text.
And it is very fussy about goes in the...
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Posted by vb_lover on 06 Dec 2005
James Crowley:
I am using vb6sp6(EM_SETTEXTMODE didn't work with vb6sp4 either) RTB control, I have already implemented URL detection similar to yours. However now i am trying to get MULTI-LEVEL U...