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Aug 19th, 2005, 10:41 AM

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RichTextBox Tricks and Tips

moeur
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The following posts contain a few things that you can do with RichTextBoxes that you might not have known that you could do. If any of you know of other non-standard things that can be done with RichTextBoxes, feel free to add to this list.
Highlight text SuperScript and SubScript Insert tables Insert Pictures Find and Replace Common Dialog Spell Checking class Get Cursor Line and Column Position Detect and respond to hyperlinks WYSIWYG printing (msdn) Insert Hyperlinked text Add animated GIF's to your RichTextBox
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Aug 19th, 2005, 10:43 AM

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Highlighting text

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Since there is no .SelHighlight property of the RichTextBox control, I created one.

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Public Sub HighLight(RTB As RichTextBox, lColor As Long) 'add new color to color table 'add tags \highlight# and \highlight0 'where # is new color number Dim iPos As Long Dim strRTF As String Dim bkColor As Integer With RTB iPos = .SelStart 'bracket selection .SelText = Chr(&H9D) & .SelText & strRTF = RTB.TextRTF 'add new color bkColor = AddColorToTable(strRTF, 'add highlighting strRTF = Replace(strRTF, "\'9d", strRTF = Replace(strRTF, "\'81", .TextRTF = strRTF .SelStart = iPos End With End Sub

Chr(&H81)

lColor) "\up1\highlight" & CStr(bkColor) & "") "\highlight0\up0 ")

Notice that in addition to inserting the \highlight tags I also insert \up# tags. This is so that I can check to see if a selection is highlighted by querying the .SelCharOffset function. This routine relies on the following function that adds a new color to the RTF color table
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Function AddColorToTable(strRTF As String, lColor As Long) As Integer Dim iPos As Long, jpos As Long Dim Dim Dim Dim Dim Dim Dim Dim ctbl As String tagColors nColors As Integer tagNew As String i As Integer iLen As Integer split1 As String split2 As String 'make new color into tag tagNew = "\red" & CStr(lColor And &HFF) & _ "\green" & CStr(Int(lColor / &H100) And &HFF) & _ "\blue" & CStr(Int(lColor / &H10000)) 'find colortable iPos = InStr(strRTF, "{\colortbl") If iPos > 0 Then 'if table already exists jpos = InStr(iPos, strRTF, ";}") 'color table ctbl = Mid(strRTF, iPos + 12, jpos - iPos - 12) 'array of color tags tagColors = Split(ctbl, ";") nColors = UBound(tagColors) + 2 'see if our color already exists in table For i = 0 To UBound(tagColors) If tagColors(i) = tagNew Then AddColorToTable = i + 1 Exit Function
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Aug 19th, 2005, 10:45 AM

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Super and Subscripting

moeur
Old Member

Two other functions that the RichTextBox control does not gives us are super and subscripting. As before we can accomplish this by inserting RTF code. Notice again that I also add \up0 and \dn0 tags so that I can determine if text has been subscripted by querying the .SelCharOffset property.

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Public Sub SetSubScript(RTB As RichTextBox) Dim iPos As Long Dim strRTF As String With RTB If .SelCharOffset >= 0 Then 'subscript the current selection iPos = .SelStart .SelText = Chr(&H9D) & .SelText & Chr(&H81) strRTF = Replace(.TextRTF, "\'9d", "\sub\dn2 ") .TextRTF = Replace(strRTF, "\'81", "\nosupersub\up0 ") .SelStart = iPos Else 'turn off subscripting .SelText = Chr(&H9D) & .SelText strRTF = .TextRTF .TextRTF = Replace(strRTF, "\'9d", "\nosupersub\up0 ", , 1) End If End With End Sub Public Sub SetSuperScript(RTB As RichTextBox) 'add tags \super\up1 and \nosupersub\up0 Dim iPos As Long Dim strRTF As String With RTB iPos = .SelStart If RTB.SelCharOffset <= 0 Then 'superscript the current selection .SelText = Chr(&H9D) & .SelText & Chr(&H80) strRTF = Replace(.TextRTF, "\'9d", "\super\up2 ") .TextRTF = Replace(strRTF, "\'81", "\nosupersub\up0 ") Else 'turn off .SelText = Chr(&H9D) & .SelText
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Aug 19th, 2005, 10:47 AM

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Insert Tables

moeur
Old Member

Another useful functionality that can be added to the RichTextBox controls is the ability to insert tables. The RichTextBox controls support a limited subset of the table related Rich Text Format tags, but none of that is made accessible to users of the control. I've attached a class that you can use to insert tables into your RichTextBox controls.

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Rows - Sets or returns the number of rows in the table Columns - Sets or returns the number of columns in the table Row - An Array of Rows (1 to Rows) Column - An Array of columns (1 to Columns) Column(i).xWidth - Width of the ith column Cell - A 2-d Array of Cells (1 to Rows, 1 to Columns) Cell(r, c).Contents - Sets or returns the contents of the cell

Methods InsertTable(RTB As RichTextBox) - Inserts the table into the RichTextBox at the currrent cursor position.

An example of use is
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Dim RTFtable As clsRTFtable Private Declare Function LockWindowUpdate Lib "user32" ( _ ByVal hwndLock As Long _ ) As Long Private Sub Command1_Click() Dim i As Integer Set RTFtable = New clsRTFtable 'stop flicker Call LockWindowUpdate(RichTextBox1.hWnd) For i = 1 To 5 With RTFtable 'set the size of the .Columns = 3 .Rows = 2 'fill the cells 'Row 1 .Cell(1, 1).Contents .Cell(1, 2).Contents .Cell(1, 3).Contents

table

= "Row 1" = "Column2" = "Column3"

'Row 2 .Cell(2, 1).Contents = "Row2" .Cell(2, 2).Contents = "R2C2" .Cell(2, 3).Contents = "R2C3" 'do we want to center it on the page? .isCentered = True 'insert the table at the current cursor postion
Attached Files RTFtable.zip (5.3 KB, 7028 views)

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Aug 19th, 2005, 10:50 AM

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Insert Pictures

moeur
Old Member

There are several ways to insert pictures into a RichTextBox control. This is one method that does not rely on the clipboard, but does use some metafile stuff. Here is the routine to insert the picture
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'Inserts the picture at the current insertion point Public Function InsertPicture(RTB As RichTextBox, pic As StdPicture) Dim strRTFall As String Dim lStart As Long With RTB .SelText = Chr(&H9D) & .SelText & Chr(&H81) strRTFall = .TextRTF strRTFall = Replace(strRTFall, "\'9d", PictureToRTF(pic)) .TextRTF = strRTFall 'position cursor past new insertion lStart = .Find(Chr(&H81)) strRTFall = Replace(strRTFall, "\'81", "") .TextRTF = strRTFall .SelStart = lStart End With End Function

Here is the routine that converts the picture into an RTF string
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'returns the RTF string representation of our picture Public Function PictureToRTF(pic As StdPicture) As String Dim hMetaDC As Long, hMeta As Long, hPicDC As Long, hOldBmp As Long Dim Bmp As BITMAP, Sz As Size, Pt As POINTAPI Dim sTempFile As String, screenDC As Long Dim headerStr As String, retStr As String, byteStr As String Dim ByteArr() As Byte, nBytes As Long Dim fn As Long, i As Long, j As Long sTempFile = App.Path & "\~pic" & ((Rnd * 1000000) + 1000000) \ 1 & ".tmp" If Dir(sTempFile) <> "" Then Kill sTempFile 'Create a metafile which is a collection of structures that store a 'picture in a device-independent format. hMetaDC = CreateMetaFile(sTempFile) 'set size of Metafile window SetMapMode hMetaDC, MM_ANISOTROPIC SetWindowOrgEx hMetaDC, 0, 0, Pt GetObject pic.Handle, Len(Bmp), Bmp SetWindowExtEx hMetaDC, Bmp.Width, Bmp.Height, Sz 'save sate for later retrieval SaveDC hMetaDC 'get DC compatible to screen screenDC = GetDC(0) hPicDC = CreateCompatibleDC(screenDC) ReleaseDC 0, screenDC 'set out picture as new DC picture hOldBmp = SelectObject(hPicDC, pic.Handle) 'some temprory file

Attached is code plus the declares

Attached Files modRTFpic.bas (5.9 KB, 2438 views)

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Sep 4th, 2005, 05:40 PM

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Find and Replace Common Dialog

moeur
Old Member

Until recently I didn't know that you could access the "Find-And-Replace" Common Dialog. Here is a class that makes it easy to access. The class will work with either a standard TextBox or a RichTextBox. Here is an example of how you might use the class.
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Option Explicit 'declare with events so that we can override the default 'behavior of the class and/or handle ShowHelp Dim WithEvents FindDialog As clsFindandReplace Private Sub Form_Load() Set FindDialog = New clsFindandReplace End Sub Private Sub Command2_Click() 'show the Find and Replace dialog box 'pass the handle of our RichTextBox to 'the class FindDialog.ShowReplace RTB.hwnd End Sub

Attached Files FindAndReplace.zip (16.1 KB, 2419 views)

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Sep 5th, 2005, 10:22 PM

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Full Featured Spell Checker

moeur
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Here is a class that provides full spell checking functionality for the RichTextBox. This class has only two methods:
GetSpellingErrors checks the spelling in all the text of a RTB and returns the number of spelling errors found and marks then all. A right-click on any error brings up a popup menu with suggested changes. If the user selects a change from the menu, then the replacement is made. ClearSpelling clears all the marked errors.

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Here is an example of use:

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Option Explicit Private SpellCheck As clsSpellCheck Private Sub cmdSpellCheck_Click() SpellCheck.GetSpellingErrors RTB End Sub Private Sub cmdStopSpell_Click() SpellCheck.ClearSpelling End Sub Private Sub Form_Load() Set SpellCheck = New clsSpellCheck RTB.LoadFile App.Path & "\recipe.rtf" End Sub

This code also provides an example of several other things.

How to implement the EN_LINK notification function of the RichTextBox. This notification is usually used to mark hyperlinks and respond to mouse events over them. I use it to mark spelling errors and to bring up a popup menu of spelling suggestions for the user to select from. I have included a class that is used to create and respond to popup menus. I put this functionality into a class because I wanted all the spell checking functionality contained within a class with none of the code in the form. Also included is my "Cute Little Subclasser" class. I use this class whenever I want subclassing capabilities. When this class is declared WithEvents, the user can write code to respond to Windows messages within the form or class's own module. It also is a little more stable than doing your own subclassing since it always remembers to turn itself off.

Attached is the source code for all the above mentioned items PLUS a free mispelled recipe!
Attached Files SpellC heck.zip (18.3 KB, 2692 views)

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Sep 11th, 2005, 10:58 AM

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Get row and column number of cursor

moeur
Old Member

Here is some simple code that will give you the cursor position in a RichTextBox, It gives you the line number and the column number of the cursor. Attached is a project that demonstrates use of the routine.
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Private Declare Function SendMessage Lib "user32" Alias "SendMessageA" ( _ ByVal hwnd As Long, _ ByVal wMsg As Long, _ ByVal wParam As Long, _ lParam As Any _ ) As Long Private Const EM_GETLINECOUNT = &HBA Private Const EM_LINEINDEX = &HBB Private Sub GetCursorPos(RTB As RichTextBox, iLine As Integer, iPos As Integer) Dim lCount As Long Dim i As Long Dim LN As Long lCount = SendMessage(RTB.hwnd, EM_GETLINECOUNT, 0&, 0&) LN = SendMessage(RTB.hwnd, EM_LINEINDEX, -1&, 0&) For i = 1 To lCount If LN = SendMessage(RTB.hwnd, EM_LINEINDEX, i - 1, 0) Then Exit For Next i iLine = i iPos = RTB.SelStart - LN + 1 End Sub

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Sep 29th, 2005, 11:48 AM

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Auto Detect and respond to URLs

moeur
Old Member

The RichTextBox control has the ability to detect URLs as they are typed. It can convert this text into a hyperlink which can launch a browser when clicked. To turn on Auto URL detection simply send the RTB an EM_AUTOURLDETECT message.

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When the control detects that a URL is being entered, it reformats the text being entered so that it looks like a hyperlink and marks that text with a CFE_LINK effect. When the mouse pointer is over text with a CFE_LINK effect, the RTB can be configured to send a message to its parent. In order to respond to mouse events over the hyperlink text, the parent has to be subclassed or hooked. The following code shows how to setup Auto URL detection
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Public Sub EnableAutoURLDetection(RTB As RichTextBox) 'enable auto URL detection SendMessage RTB.hwnd, EM_AUTOURLDETECT, 1&, ByVal 0& 'subclass the parent of the RTB to receive EN_LINK notifications Set FormSubClass = New clsSubClass FormSubClass.Enable RTB.Parent.hwnd 'set RTB to notify parent when user has clicked hyperlink SendMessage RTB.hwnd, EM_SETEVENTMASK, 0&, ByVal ENM_LINK End Sub

And to respond to a left mouse click you could do the following in your form's subclass routine.
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Private Sub FormSubClass_WMArrival(hwnd As Long, uMsg As Long, wParam As Long, lParam As Long, lRetVal Dim notifyCode As nmhdr Dim LinkData As ENLINK Dim URL As String Select Case uMsg Case WM_NOTIFY CopyMemory notifyCode, ByVal lParam, LenB(notifyCode) If notifyCode.code = EN_LINK Then 'A RTB sends EN_LINK notifications when it receives certain mouse messages 'while the mouse pointer is over text that has the CFE_LINK effect: 'To receive EN_LINK notifications, specify the ENM_LINK flag in the mask 'sent with the EM_SETEVENTMASK message. 'If you send the EM_AUTOURLDETECT message to enable automatic URL detection, 'the RTB automatically sets the CFE_LINK effect for modified text that it 'identifies as a URL. CopyMemory LinkData, ByVal lParam, Len(LinkData) If LinkData.Msg = WM_LBUTTONUP Then 'user clicked on a hyperlink 'get text with CFE_LINK effect that caused message to be sent URL = Mid(RTB.Text, LinkData.chrg.cpMin + 1, LinkData.chrg.cpMax - LinkData.chrg.cpMin) 'launch the browser here ShellExecute 0&, "OPEN", URL, vbNullString, "C:\", SW_SHOWNORMAL End If End If lRetVal = FormSubClass.callWindProc(hwnd, uMsg, wParam, lParam)

Attached is a project that demonstrates the whole idea.

Attached Files AutoURLdetect.zip (10.9 KB, 2490 views)

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Oct 3rd, 2005, 03:25 PM

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Re: RichTextBox Tricks and Tips

longwolf
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Wow, you have some really great stuff here! But I see one major draw back. In SpellCheck.zip you have a dll named DBGWPROC.DLL. Its properties say: You have a license to use this file only if you have a copy of the book. You may not redistribute this file.

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Oct 3rd, 2005, 05:59 PM

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Re: RichTextBox Tricks and Tips

moeur
Old Member

The DbgWProc.Dll is only used for debugging purposes so doesn't really need to be included, but the author ( Matthew Curland) has given his permission to redistribute it. The file is freely available many places around the iternet.
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Jan 16th, 2006, 01:57 PM

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Re: RichTextBox Tricks and Tips

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Hi: First off, thanks so much for posting the codes for inserting tables. That's much appreciated!!!

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I have access to the control characters for rft documents and what I'd like to do is to have codes that would allow user to change the boarder of the cell that the user's cursor is in (inside a rich text box). I have searched the net high and low for info. on how to programatically select all the control characters that is associated with that cell and then make modification to them (e.g.: flagging \ckbrdk to false). Could you kindly help me out with this? I would really appreciate it! Thank you in advance! Justin

Apr 13th, 2006, 03:17 AM

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Re: Insert Tables

darki
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Hi, very nice codes... I found one bug in RTFtable

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1. Public Sub InsertTable(RTB As RichTextBox) 2. 'set column widths 3. For c = 1 To mvarColumns 4. strInsert = strInsert & "\cellx" 5. w = mvarxLeft 6. For i = 1 To c 7. [color=Red]w = w + mvarclsColumn(c).xWidth[/color] 8. Next i 9. strInsert = strInsert & CStr(w) 10. Next c

If you have all columns same size you can't see difference, but must be: w = w + mvarclsColumn(i).xWidth

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Re: RichTextBox Tricks and Tips

moeur
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Thanks darki

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May 14th, 2006, 11:24 AM

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Re: RichTextBox Tricks and Tips

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Hi All I have strange problems with the syntax highlighting programming No.1 Sendmessage is often out of work '---- ------------------Quotation----------------- ----LN = SendMessage(RTB.hwnd, EM_LINEINDEX, Byval LineNum, 0&) '---- ------------------Quotation----------------- ----this works fine in ANSI mode(english text),but when I use UNICODE mode,it returns wrong result as always. I have to seek the preview enter key to locate the fst pos of a line. No.2 '---- ------------------Quotation----------------- ----.SelStart

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.SelLength .SelColor '---- ------------------Quotation----------------- ----if selected Line number is under 200,this goes fast,but when it's above 1000,it just stuck over there with a delay of 1 second or more,within these time,the keyboard action might be all in a mess. can you give me some suggestion? thx a lot

Jun 2nd, 2006, 09:44 AM

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Re: RichTextBox Tricks and Tips

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Maybe I am confused but I am trying to highlight text on the go without changing the cursor position. Is there anyway to get the RTF text position? Selstart only has it for the standard text and I need the rtf selstart so that I can insert my own colour tags before and after my word. Just in case your wondering I am writing a script editor and the cursor jumps the box around whenever I highlight words __________________ If you dribble then you are as mad as me Lost World Creations Website (Astrophotography) Lene Marlin

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Re: RichTextBox Tricks and Tips

moeur
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Probably the easiest thing to do is lock the window while you are doing the highlighting with LockWindowUpdate.
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Private Declare Function LockWindowUpdate Lib "user32" ( _ ByVal hwndLock As Long) As Long Private Sub Command1_Click() Dim iPos As Integer 'save the current cursor position iPos = RTB.SelStart 'prevent the window from changing LockWindowUpdate RTB.hWnd 'highlight a word RTB.Find "is" HighLight RTB, vbYellow 'restore the cursor position RTB.SelStart = iPos 'unlock the window LockWindowUpdate 0 End Sub

Jun 5th, 2006, 02:48 AM

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Re: RichTextBox Tricks and Tips

BodwadUK
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Thanks I shall give it a go __________________ If you dribble then you are as mad as me Lost World Creations Website (Astrophotography) Lene Marlin

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Thats seems to do it thanks. I had it on the main form hwnd before but changing it to the hwnd of the rich text box itself seems to do the trick thanks __________________ If you dribble then you are as mad as me

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Jun 12th, 2006, 09:47 PM

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Re: RichTextBox Tricks and Tips

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thanks for that tricks.. but how to autoscroll the richtextbox?

Jun 12th, 2006, 11:50 PM

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Re: RichTextBox Tricks and Tips

moeur
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what do you mean by autoscroll? What do you want to do?

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Re: RichTextBox Tricks and Tips

nokmaster
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@moeur hi, i mean richtextbox with vertical scroller. if u put this command into command1
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1. with rtb 2. .selcolor = vbblack 3. .seltext = "ok" & vbcrlf 4. end with

it will scroll down right? but if you scroll this scroller to up then press the button again it will not scroll.

Jun 13th, 2006, 02:06 AM

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Re: RichTextBox Tricks and Tips

BodwadUK
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change selstart to the location you want the cursor. It should scroll for you __________________ If you dribble then you are as mad as me Lost World Creations Website (Astrophotography) Lene Marlin

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Jun 13th, 2006, 04:29 AM

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nokmaster
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Originally Posted by BodwadUK change selstart to the location you want the cursor. It should scroll for you how?

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BodwadUK
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you mean it doesnt scroll down until you hit the bottom of the text window with your cursor? __________________ If you dribble then you are as mad as me Lost World Creations Website (Astrophotography) Lene Marlin

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Jun 30th, 2006, 06:11 AM

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Re: RichTextBox Tricks and Tips

Yuji1
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I wish to know how to, uh, well, basically, I am building a chat program for the Hell of it, but want colored text in a RichTextBox. BUT, I dunno how to do it, cause when I try to switch to a color, it ****s up. Ya, so, help?

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Re: RichTextBox Tricks and Tips

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When I try to set the xwidth to 3.5 it dosen't not draw a table, the text is all scambled. I need the width of each cell to be 3.5inch I need the Height of each cell to be 2inch I need there to be 2 columns, with 5 rows. What is the best way to accomplish this? EDIT: I got the width correct, I was using 3.5, when I should have been using Twips, 5040. How do I do the Height of each cell to be exactly 2inches? Or 2880 Twips. __________________ Please RATE posts, click the RATE button to the left under the Users Name. Once your thread has been answered, Please use the Thread Tools and select RESOLVED so everyone knows your question has been answered.
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Re: RichTextBox Tricks and Tips

MartinLiss
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Using your example I've come to understand how to have text in a richtextbox act as a hyperlink, but given text that looks like this (from which I will strip away the URL tags) [ URL=http://www.vbforums.com/showthread.php?p=11111]this thread[/URL ]

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All you need to do is mark the text that you want to attach a hyperlink to with the CFE_LINK Effect. You'll have to keep the URL in a list somewhere so you can respond to user mouse clicks in your WM_NOTIFY event interception. See my cool spell checker example for how to do this. The spell checker marks all mispelled words with the CFE_LINK effect so that when the user right clicks on it spelling suggestions can be made.

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BTW this is much better than RobDogg's simple little spell checker Edit: the link you provided above does not work. -Bill

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Thanks for the information Bill. I know about the link; I intentionally made it invalid. BTW, did you get the couple of emails I sent you? __________________

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I just downloaded the clsSpellCheck example and I ran into a problem. When I run it I see the recipe (which I've made previously BTW ). I click Spell Check and it underlines all the misspellings. However when I double-clicked one of them nothing happened, so I clicked Spell Check again and got an Invalid property value error in this line
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1. 'find each misspelling in the document 2. For Each spError In WordDoc.SpellingErrors 3. iPos = mRTB.Find(spError, iPos + 1, , rtfWholeWord Or rtfMatchCase) 4. [hl="#FFFF80"]mRTB.SelStart = iPos[/hl]

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Okay I have the word "this" in my example above formatted with the CFE_LINK effect and I have the associated URL stored in a collection and the richtextbox is enabled for AutoURLDetection. How do I actually get the RTB to open the browser to the stored URL? I assume I have to do something in the RTB's Click event, but what? __________________

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The spell checker requires that you right click on a word not double click. To respond to the user clicking on your hyperlink, see the AutoURL example above. when text in an RTB has its CFE_LINK effect set, the text will be blue and underlined. More importantly, the RTB will send a WM_NOTIFY message to its parent form for certain mouse operations on the text.

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To respond to these messages (such as a left click) you have to subclass the parent form and intercept these messages. So, 1. see the spell check example to see how to set the CFE_LINK effect for text. 2. See the AutoURLDetect example to see how to bring up the browser (or whatever action) when the user clicks on your special text. And I did receive your email and even responded. -Bill

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Thanks, I've done all that and I basically have it working. I do have a problem though. Take a look at my post #28. You see that I'm substituting the "Script prompt" that you optionally enter when you insert a hyperlink in a post for the URL itself, so when the user clicks on the underline-blue word I need to tell VB somehow what the URL associated with that word is. I've worked that out by storing both pieces of data in a modified version of your

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MisSpellings collection and I can now get the browser to open to the correct page. My problem is however, what to do about situations where the same underlined-blue word occurs in more that one place? In that situation there would likely be different URLs associated with them, so what I'd like to do is store some unique, identifying, rtf tag before or after the underlined-blue word where that tag would be the index to the proper entry in the collection. Can I insert things like \'123 into the rtf? I never received your response to my emails so if you could send me a PM with what you said I'd appreciate it. __________________

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Ok I understand your question now. I thought it was strange that I was having to explain things to you that are spelled out in the example. Here is an idea: This \v www.vbforums.com \v0

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My idea is to insert your URL right in the RTF text and hide it with the \v tags. You can then retrieve this info when the user clicks the adjacent hyperlink. Does this not work?

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No, that seems like a great idea! I had no idea (until now) what the \v tag did. Is there a comprehesiuve list someplace of rtf tags? __________________

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Here is the specification of RTF 1.5 http://www.biblioscape.com/rtf15_spec.htm Note however that the richtextbox control supports only about 10% of the codes. I use the vbforums editor to test codes. Go to View\RTF Then enter the codes you want to test Then select View\Normal to see if it worked. If it didn't work and you go back to View/RTF and the code you entered is gone, then the control does not support it so it removed it.

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