Colored words in textbox

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..

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

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

vb.net Code:

' 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

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?

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Originally Posted by 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?

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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.

I see.. Thank you cicatrix

Quote:

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Originally Posted by cicatrix

vb.net Code:

' 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

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

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

Code:

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

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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)