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I'm working on a simple editor application a la Notepad, and I want the user to be able to choose to break the lines of the text after the windowsize.
I know you can use Wordwrap in Labels, but is there a similar command for textboxes?
I also wonder how I can make a post on a menu where you can choose an alternative, like wordwrap, on or off (with a little mark before the text to show it's enabled or disabled.
Hope someone can help me,
greetings,
Pentax
Well... for a text box it should have its multiline property to true, and then the scrollbars property should be set to vertical or both... but if you want to make it wrap at a certain size, then you'll have to put some code into the form's resize event in regaurds to the width of the text box relative to the length of the chars of a particular line in text (Get this with the TextWidth). However, finding all the lines that match a certain length or longer will take a while with a large amount of text, so... good luck! You can use a menu to activate and deactivate this feature, you can use its check property.
I would recommend using the RichTextBox control instead of the TextBox control. It also has the multi-line property and word-wraps text by default. It also has the Right Margin Property which will allow you to set specifically where you want the word-wrap to occur. It also provides many other methods (such as Find Text) that make it more useful for text editing.
For the menu part, create your menu in the VB Menu Editor. There is a property called Checked that you can set at run-time. For example: if you had a menu item called mnuOptionWordWrap you could set it to be checked using the following:
mnuOptionWordWrap.checked = True
You'll have to forgive me if the syntax or property name isn't exactly correct, but it should be close.
Hope this helps.
JC.