Not sure if RichTextBox can do this?

Dewald

Hi all, I want to put some info into a RichTextBox (or whichever other control might serve the purpose better) consisting of different sections. I was hoping to put a horizontal seperator between sections but I'm not sure how to do that. I'm probably missing something very simple here. I'm thinking of something similar to the

tag of HTML. Any ideas? Thanks in advance Dewald

Lost User

Use SplitContainer then put 2 RichTextBox in each panel.

MohammadAmiry

No, a richtextbox (as it is) cannot be split. But you may have a control, which consists of two richtextboxes and a seperator between them. You may program different interactions between these two controls to give the user the feel that they are one split richtextbox (if you need such thing).

Dewald

Thanks, that would be an idea but I will be adding text (in various sections) at runtime and will not know beforehand how many sections (and horizontal seperators) there will evetually be. So it is important that I am able to add seperators at runtime.

Dewald

Thanks, but just to be clear, I'm not looking for a split-line (or whatever you call it) with which the sections can be resized etc. I want to simly draw a horizontal black line across the width of the control and continue with more text under that. The easiest way would be to add a bunch of underscores or minusses to the textbox but I was hoping for something more elegant.

Luc Pattyn

Hi, I have not done this myself, but it sounds like you want a ListBox (great at holding a number of items of any kind), where each item could be a RichTextBox. Make it UserDrawn and you can add RTB's as much as you want, they will be layed ou one below the other, and scrolling will be automatic. :)

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Dewald

Hey, I think you may be on to something. I'll try this out and report back. Thanks.

DaveyM69

Good idea Luc - interesting concept. I can imagine this being extremely usefull in lots of situations. Dewald - post back if you get it to work (maybe with a little code snippet?). This is going on my todo list for when I get a little time :-D

Dave

Dewald

OK, I'm making progress but it's painfully slow. Was hoping someone could give me a nudge in the right direction. I'm at the point now where I'm trying to paint the RichTextBox in the ListBox (in the DrawItem event of course). The nearest I've come so far is to use the e.Graphics.DrawImage() method but obtaining an Image of the RichTextBox is proving tricky. I'm sure there has to be a better way than importing the gdi32.dll and bit blasting the control onto an image (as explained here[^]) which is then drawn into the ListBox. Any ideas?

Pete OHanlon

Why not use the Web Browser component in edit mode?

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