Appending text with newline in a textbox

[Rein Petersen]

Hi All,

I'm having a heckuva time trying to append lines into my multiline readonly
System.Windows.Forms.TextBox

I was expecting to simply do this:

myTextBox.Text += "appending this line \n";

but it doesn't append a newline at the end of my string. It justs adds a
little black box character at the end and new appends just continue as one
long line.... arg.

What am I doing wrong? I just want to echo messages to the form....

Rein

[Fred Mellender]

append Environment.NewLine. See class doc for same.
"Rein Petersen" <rm********@bogus.hotmail.com> wrote in message
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Hi All,

I'm having a heckuva time trying to append lines into my multiline readonly System.Windows.Forms.TextBox

I was expecting to simply do this:

myTextBox.Text += "appending this line \n";

but it doesn't append a newline at the end of my string. It justs adds a
little black box character at the end and new appends just continue as one
long line.... arg.

What am I doing wrong? I just want to echo messages to the form....

Rein

[Miha Markic]

Hi Rein,

"\r\n" instead of "\n" will do the job.
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Miha Markic - RightHand .NET consulting & development
miha at rthand com

"Rein Petersen" <rm********@bogus.hotmail.com> wrote in message
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Hi All,

I'm having a heckuva time trying to append lines into my multiline readonly System.Windows.Forms.TextBox

I was expecting to simply do this:

myTextBox.Text += "appending this line \n";

but it doesn't append a newline at the end of my string. It justs adds a
little black box character at the end and new appends just continue as one
long line.... arg.

What am I doing wrong? I just want to echo messages to the form....

Rein

[Rein Petersen]

"Miha Markic" <miha at rthand com> wrote in message
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"\r\n" instead of "\n" will do the job.

Already tried "\r\n" ... carriage return newline... nogo :(

Rein

[Rein Petersen]

"Fred Mellender" <no****************@frontiernet.net> wrote in message
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append Environment.NewLine. See class doc for same.

Thats it!!

myTextBox.Text += "some text to append and here comes the newline" +
Environment.Newline;
Rein

[Miha Markic]

Actually, it is a go.
Environment.NewLine gives exact same value as "\r\n".

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Miha Markic - RightHand .NET consulting & development
miha at rthand com

"Rein Petersen" <rm********@bogus.hotmail.com> wrote in message
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"Miha Markic" <miha at rthand com> wrote in message
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"\r\n" instead of "\n" will do the job.

Already tried "\r\n" ... carriage return newline... nogo :(

Rein

[Rein Petersen]

Thats what I would have thought. Of course I tried it and was completely
stymied when the character escapes ("\r\n") didn't produce a newline...
Maybe I used the wrong slashes (doubt it). I'll try it again later for good
measure and let everyone know result (don't want to misinform).

Rein

"Miha Markic" <miha at rthand com> wrote in message
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Actually, it is a go.
Environment.NewLine gives exact same value as "\r\n".

[Miha Markic]

I've tried with this:
textBox1.Text = "Tubo\r\nTubo";

(textBox1.Multiline should be True)

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Miha Markic - RightHand .NET consulting & development
miha at rthand com

"Rein Petersen" <rm********@bogus.hotmail.com> wrote in message
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Thats what I would have thought. Of course I tried it and was completely
stymied when the character escapes ("\r\n") didn't produce a newline...
Maybe I used the wrong slashes (doubt it). I'll try it again later for good measure and let everyone know result (don't want to misinform).

Rein

"Miha Markic" <miha at rthand com> wrote in message
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Actually, it is a go.
Environment.NewLine gives exact same value as "\r\n".