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Hi,

I have a paragraph of text, which i want to display to the user (possibly in a richtextbox). However, some words need to be in another colour.

I tried to use rtf, but when i use:
- richTextBox1.RT F = "my rtf string", the richTextBox1.RT F does not change (seems like this property is read-only!)
- richTextBox1.RT F.insert(index, string) again does not change the value of the rtf property.

So my question is:
1) How can I display text to the user in 2 different colours?
2) The user will then click on words displayed to him and I need to obtain a string of the word he clicked on (so obviously the control I use must be able to detect where the 'cursor' is)...

Any ideas?

thanks m8s!
Apr 2 '07 #1
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SammyB
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> I tried to use rtf
Use the Text property
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  1. RichTextBox1.Text = "My RTF string"
> richTextBox1.RT F.insert(index, string)
Insert is tricky, it produces another string
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  1. RichTextBox1.Text = RichTextBox1.Text.Insert(2, " bigger")
> How can I display text to the user in 2 different colours?
Use SelectionColor property
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  1. RichTextBox1.SelectionStart = RichTextBox1.Find("bigger")
  2. RichTextBox1.SelectionColor = Color.Red
  3. RichTextBox1.SelectionStart = RichTextBox1.TextLength
>The user will then click on words displayed to him and I need to obtain a string of the word he clicked on
Use the SelectedText property
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  1. MsgBox("You selected: " & RichTextBox1.SelectedText)
Apr 2 '07 #2

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