formatting a string into a richtextbox

[Chris Rollock]

on msdn: "you can initialize the Rtf property to a string that contains the text to display, including the RTF codes that determine how the text should be formatted."

Nowhere can I find an example on how to do this. I'm taking data from an xml file as a string, and I want to display it in a richtextbox with formatting depending on what it is I'm looking at. All I need is an example of how to directly append (rather than loading a file) a string into the display with a single word bolded.

I appreciate the help. Thanks

~Chris

[Chris Rollock]

I've tried using rtf tags encoded into the string via appendtext and it seems to add it to rtf the same as any other tags, but then it still doesn't display properly. EG the string "\\b This is test text. \\b0" gets added to rtf like "\\\\b This is test text. \\\\b0". Using \b and \b0 create odd graphical characters rather than being passed as an escape control.

Er, additionally/instead of a solution to this, perhaps someone could answer a more fundimental question of what the best way to display dynamically chosen text in an environment that allows copy/paste and can display different font sizes, colors, and styles in the same window? I assumed this was the proper way to do it, given an example of a program that was written in java that I'm trying to emulate (I don't have the code for it). The text box used there behaves exactly like the richtextbox control that I'm using. Except of course for the working/not working part.

[Chris Rollock]

Sorry if this bump/post goes against board manners. I'm still trying to get a solution to what seems like it should be an extremely simple problem. Here's further updates on what I tried and what I'm looking for...

What the richtextbox actually looks at when it reads text is richtextbox.rtf . Any attempt to pass text into it via append text or directly throuh richtextbox.tex t passes control characters as \\ so that when they are displayed, they come out as a \. It also won't let me pass a single \ through either method as it looks to convert the control before it ever hits .rtf.

This leads me to believe there are two solutions to my problem. The first is to give the text directly to .rtf. This would be fine except that .rtf has multiple sections and text has to be put in a very specific part. I can't just append to the end. That means I have to include an algorithm to find and insert my string into the middle of the .rtf. My other option is to use rtb.selectionFo nt, which doesn't work for me because the control characters are inserted into the string as I read from the XML file. I'm using a hashtable to store everything, and I don't want to keep track of what needs to be bold/italic/red etc. after I read it that first time. It loses its context at that point and becomes more difficult to accurately manipulate.

I can't help but feel both of these solutions are overly complex for how simple a process this is. Unless someone has a better solution, I'll go ahead with the first method of searching through the rtf string.