Colored words in textbox

[macbrutal]

hey guys, well I was wondering if there's anyway to color stuff in a textbox?
example:
I have a big textbox and if I type hi in that textbox I want that text to become grey, and if I type bye I want the text to become red, any ideas?

btw, I took your advice from my latest thread and installed a stable version of 2005

I did some thinking and come up with the idea "if textbox1.text ="hej" then" set a color but then I realized the whole text would become to coded text, hmm..

[cicatrix]

Textbox can only change the color of the whole text. Use RichTextBox if you need colored words.

[macbrutal]

Cicatrix, thank you for the reply!

Please define your idea, so if I replace my textbox to a RTF what should I do next? I've tried to google this, but can't find any codes/explainations

[cicatrix]

' Put a RichTextBox control on a form and name it RichTextBox1
Public Sub Form1_Load(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Me.Load
        RichTextBox1.Text = "My text. This is a blue text. This is a red text."
 
        Dim pos As Integer = RichTextBox1.Find("blue text")
        With RichTextBox1
            .Select(pos, "blue text".Length)
            .SelectionColor = Color.Blue
            pos = .Find("red text")
            .Select(pos, "red text".Length)
            .SelectionColor = Color.Red
        End With
 
    End Sub

[macbrutal]

Cicatrix, thank you for the reply once again but I don't think we get each other
If I type "hello" in this RTF I want all the hello's to be red and if I type "bye" I want all the "bye's" to be blue if you know what I mean?

[cicatrix]

Cicatrix, thank you for the reply once again but I don't think we get each other
If I type "hello" in this RTF I want all the hello's to be red and if I type "bye" I want all the "bye's" to be blue if you know what I mean?

It can't be done automatically. I showed you the principles involved.
In your case you should catch a TextChanged event of your richtextbox and do the search for your hello and bye strings and change their colors.

[macbrutal]

I see.. Thank you cicatrix

[Guerrero]

' Put a RichTextBox control on a form and name it RichTextBox1
Public Sub Form1_Load(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Me.Load
        RichTextBox1.Text = "My text. This is a blue text. This is a red text."
 
        Dim pos As Integer = RichTextBox1.Find("blue text")
        With RichTextBox1
            .Select(pos, "blue text".Length)
            .SelectionColor = Color.Blue
            pos = .Find("red text")
            .Select(pos, "red text".Length)
            .SelectionColor = Color.Red
        End With
 
    End Sub

please how to change to between bold/normal?
because .SelectionFont.Bold = True doesn't work (read only)

[cicatrix]

You can't change it this way, you must assign a new font.

With RichTextBox1
  ' ...
  .SelectionFont = New Font(.Font.FontFamily, .Font.Size, FontStyle.Bold)
  ' ...
End With

[Guerrero]

thanks.
wonder why is not implemented in an easy way.
if I can change only bold or italic.

oh! sure! an language with easy sentences are not so proffesional...

(sorry I can't give you the rate because maybe my last was also for you)