Blanks vs. Nothing in a RichTextBox

[eBob.com]

I have a RichTextBox in which I'd like blanks to appear different from
nothing. Imagine a file which does not fill up the RTB. You can't tell how
many, if any, blanks might follow the last visible, i.e. non-whitespace,
character. I thought that I could set the BackColor of the RTB to LightGray
and then the blanks would show up as white. But instead the characters show
up on a LightGray background and the blanks, of course, show up as LightGray
spaces.

Is there a solution (which does not require a lot of graphics expertise and
code)?

Thanks, Bob

[Stephany Young]

Define 'blank'!
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>I have a RichTextBox in which I'd like blanks to appear different from
nothing. Imagine a file which does not fill up the RTB. You can't tell
how many, if any, blanks might follow the last visible, i.e.
non-whitespace, character. I thought that I could set the BackColor of the
RTB to LightGray and then the blanks would show up as white. But instead
the characters show up on a LightGray background and the blanks, of course,
show up as LightGray spaces.

Is there a solution (which does not require a lot of graphics expertise
and code)?

Thanks, Bob

[Andrew Morton]

eBob.com wrote:

I have a RichTextBox in which I'd like blanks to appear different from
nothing. Imagine a file which does not fill up the RTB. You can't
tell how many, if any, blanks might follow the last visible, i.e.
non-whitespace, character. I thought that I could set the BackColor
of the RTB to LightGray and then the blanks would show up as white. But
instead the characters show up on a LightGray background and the
blanks, of course, show up as LightGray spaces.

Is there a solution (which does not require a lot of graphics
expertise and code)?

Put some text like "[End]" at the end?

Andrew

[rowe_newsgroups]

On Apr 3, 11:16*pm, "eBob.com" <[e-mail]:

I have a RichTextBox in which I'd like blanks to appear different from
nothing. *Imagine a file which does not fill up the RTB. *You can't tell how
many, if any, blanks might follow the last visible, i.e. non-whitespace,
character. *I thought that I could set the BackColor of the RTB to LightGray
and then the blanks would show up as white. *But instead the characters show
up on a LightGray background and the blanks, of course, show up as LightGray
spaces.

Is there a solution (which does not require a lot of graphics expertise and
code)?

Thanks, *Bob

Umm, why are you doing this?

If you are just wanting to get the user to clean up their extra blank
lines then just do it for them. A simple loop with a negitive step
through the lines property should allow you to trim off any blank
lines (not sure if calling Trim on the text will work or not).

Thanks,

Seth Rowe [MVP]

[Cor Ligthert[MVP]]

"Stephany Young" <noone@localhost>

Define 'blank'!

In your own standard way of replying

Not Maori?

Cor