RichTextBox Control

How do I change part of a RTB control's text color? For instance
<Andy> hello
<Andy> how are you?
I just want to change <Andy> to a different color on each new line?

You can do something like this:

rtb.SelStart = 1 'starting position
rtb.SelLength = 5 'length
rtb.SelColor = 255 'your color
rtb.SelLength = 0 'remove the selection

You can use InStr() function to determine starting position and length of your part of the text programmatically, if you need.

Regards, Vlad

vlad

I tried that code, and it works fine, but only for the first occurrence of <Andy> how do i do it for all occurrences of <Andy>?

Thanks...

ande211

You can treat is as an HTML code, There is a code on this site somewhere, that Converts < > and everything in between into another color. Look for HTMLTag.

Hi Ande.

Here's code that does what you want (i.e. change <Andy> to red.)

Name your rich text box control rtb and put a command button on your form.

Paste this code into the VB Editor:

Code:

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Option Explicit

Private Sub Command1_Click()
    Dim stTemp As String
    Dim bEnd As Boolean
    stTemp = "<Andy>"
   
    Do Until InStr(rtb.Text, stTemp) = 0
        If Len(stTemp) = Len(rtb.Text) Then
            If Right(stTemp, 6) <> "<Andy>" Then
                Exit Sub
            Else
                bEnd = True
            End If
        End If
       
        With rtb
            .SelStart = Len(stTemp) - 6
            .SelLength = 6
            .SelColor = 255
        End With
       
        If bEnd = False Then
            Do
                stTemp = stTemp & Mid(rtb.Text, Len(stTemp) + 1, 1)
            Loop Until Right(stTemp, 6) = "<Andy>" Or Len(stTemp) = Len(rtb.Text)
        Else
            Exit Sub
        End If
    Loop
End Sub

Private Sub Form_Load()
    rtb.Text = "<Andy> Hello" & vbCrLf & "<Andy> How are <Andy>you today? <Andy>"
End Sub

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All the best.

Chris

[This message has been edited by ChrisJackson (edited 01-24-2000).]

hey, I had the exact same problem, and I found a very simple answer.

say you want to send certian text to the rtb, like when <Joe> says something...

with RTB1
.selstart = len(.text)
.selcolor = vbBlue
.seltext = "<Joe> "
.selstart = len(.text)
.selcolor = vbRed
.seltext = " hey this works great!"
end with

you can easily make a sub for it so you can do something like Call Color(vbRed,"Hey") or something like that, thats what I did.