Hi group,
I have a form with a textbox control on it. I am using the textbox
control with multiline enabled to output the 'log' information for a
long process I am running. My problem is that it all works fine until
the limit of the size of text is reached for the text box. This causes
the textbox to stop update whilst the thread running the process
continues.
Any ideas how I can expand the functionality of the textbox to accept
larger amounts of data? I tried a richtextbox but it gives me the same
problem. Failing that, any ideas of a different control I could use
instead that comes with VB 2003?
I cannot use a listbox because I need the user to be able to highlight
sections of text or parts of text on one line and copy them to the
clipboard.
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"Hugh Janus" <my*************@hotmail.com> schrieb: I have a form with a textbox control on it. I am using the textbox control with multiline enabled to output the 'log' information for a long process I am running. My problem is that it all works fine until the limit of the size of text is reached for the text box. This causes the textbox to stop update whilst the thread running the process continues.
Any ideas how I can expand the functionality of the textbox to accept larger amounts of data? I tried a richtextbox but it gives me the same problem. Failing that, any ideas of a different control I could use instead that comes with VB 2003?
Which amount of data are you writing to the control? Note that the machine
only has a limited memory. In addition to that, make sure you use
'Control.InvokeRequired', 'Control.Invoke'/'Control.BeginInvoke' to update
the control from another thread instead of accessing it directly, which will
cause problems because instance members of Windows Forms controls are not
safe for multithreading.
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M S Herfried K. Wagner
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> Which amount of data are you writing to the control? Note that the machine only has a limited memory. In addition to that, make sure you use 'Control.InvokeRequired', 'Control.Invoke'/'Control.BeginInvoke' to update the control from another thread instead of accessing it directly, which will cause problems because instance members of Windows Forms controls are not safe for multithreading.
It is not that much text, should not grow to more than 1 or 2 mb's of
pure text if it was saved as a text file in notepad, so memory should
not be a problem as far as I can tell. 2mb's is far greater than what
the Textbox or Richtextbox control can handle though. Any ideas?
p.s. I am using invoke to update the control already! thanks!
Hugh Janus wrote: Which amount of data are you writing to the control? Note that the machine only has a limited memory. In addition to that, make sure you use 'Control.InvokeRequired', 'Control.Invoke'/'Control.BeginInvoke' to update the control from another thread instead of accessing it directly, which will cause problems because instance members of Windows Forms controls are not safe for multithreading.
It is not that much text, should not grow to more than 1 or 2 mb's of pure text if it was saved as a text file in notepad, so memory should not be a problem as far as I can tell. 2mb's is far greater than what the Textbox or Richtextbox control can handle though. Any ideas?
p.s. I am using invoke to update the control already! thanks!
The textbox can easily handle that... unless you're running Win9x.
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I am running Windows XP. The textbox just stops scrolling after a
while and no new information is added. I thought that the limit was
32k???
"Hugh Janus" <my*************@hotmail.com> schrieb: I am running Windows XP. The textbox just stops scrolling after a while and no new information is added. I thought that the limit was 32k???
IIRC, 'AppendText' and 'SelectionStart' are still limited to 32 KB.
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M S Herfried K. Wagner
M V P <URL:http://dotnet.mvps.org/>
V B <URL:http://classicvb.org/petition/>
That is preciesely what I am using. AppendText. Upon further testing,
it seems that RichTextBox it works OK (I guess when I originally tested
one I had an error in my code). The problem with a RTB is that it does
not scroll automatically. So, I use the ScrollToCaret method but it is
not very reliable.
I guess I'll have to work out some 'cheat' for scrolling the RTB.
Thanks.
"Hugh Janus" <my*************@hotmail.com> schrieb: I guess I'll have to work out some 'cheat' for scrolling the RTB.
Adding a line to a richtextbox control and scrolling it into view
<URL:http://dotnet.mvps.org/dotnet/faqs/?id=richtextboxscrolltobottom&lang=en>
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M V P <URL:http://dotnet.mvps.org/>
V B <URL:http://classicvb.org/petition/>
Herfried K. Wagner [MVP] wrote: "Hugh Janus" <my*************@hotmail.com> schrieb: I guess I'll have to work out some 'cheat' for scrolling the RTB.
Adding a line to a richtextbox control and scrolling it into view <URL:http://dotnet.mvps.org/dotnet/faqs/?id=richtextboxscrolltobottom&lang=en>
:-) Thanks a lot! I'll give that a try!
Herfried K. Wagner [MVP] wrote: "Hugh Janus" <my*************@hotmail.com> schrieb: I guess I'll have to work out some 'cheat' for scrolling the RTB.
Adding a line to a richtextbox control and scrolling it into view <URL:http://dotnet.mvps.org/dotnet/faqs/?id=richtextboxscrolltobottom&lang=en>
If the .Enabled is set to False on the RTB, how could I scroll it??
Or, is there an alternative way of stopping the user from interacting
with the RTB but still have it scrolling?
"Hugh Janus" <my*************@hotmail.com> schrieb: > I guess I'll have to work out some 'cheat' for scrolling the RTB.
Adding a line to a richtextbox control and scrolling it into view <URL:http://dotnet.mvps.org/dotnet/faqs/?id=richtextboxscrolltobottom&lang=en>
If the .Enabled is set to False on the RTB, how could I scroll it?? Or, is there an alternative way of stopping the user from interacting with the RTB but still have it scrolling?
Maybe setting the control's 'ReadOnly' property to 'True' solves your
problem.
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M S Herfried K. Wagner
M V P <URL:http://dotnet.mvps.org/>
V B <URL:http://classicvb.org/petition/>
Herfried K. Wagner [MVP] wrote: "Hugh Janus" <my*************@hotmail.com> schrieb: > I guess I'll have to work out some 'cheat' for scrolling the RTB.
Adding a line to a richtextbox control and scrolling it into view <URL:http://dotnet.mvps.org/dotnet/faqs/?id=richtextboxscrolltobottom&lang=en>
If the .Enabled is set to False on the RTB, how could I scroll it?? Or, is there an alternative way of stopping the user from interacting with the RTB but still have it scrolling?
Maybe setting the control's 'ReadOnly' property to 'True' solves your problem.
I have the property set to True already. The problem is that you can
still place the cursor in the box. If i set enabled to false then it
does not scroll. Not to worry as I worked out another way, albeit a
bit shoddy. I have a timer that checks to see if the cursor has been
placed in the box. if it is, it takes it out.
Hugh Janus wrote: I have the property set to True already. The problem is that you can still place the cursor in the box. If i set enabled to false then it does not scroll. Not to worry as I worked out another way, albeit a bit shoddy. I have a timer that checks to see if the cursor has been placed in the box. if it is, it takes it out.
Instead of a timer, why don't you use the getfocus event? When the user
clicks in the box, it gets the focus, use that event to get rid of it again.
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