Help with "Error 1 Overload resolution failed because no accessible 'find' ..."

Hi there, I've been working on my own version of Notepad/Wordpad and I just tried adding the Find feature for the Rich Text box and I got an error. Here's the code I had:

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    Private Sub FindToolStripMenuItem_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles FindToolStripMenuItem.Click
        RichTextBox1.Find()
    End Sub

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And here's the error:

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Error        1        Overload resolution failed because no accessible 'Find' accepts this number of arguments.        C:\Users\Jake\documents\visual studio 2010\Projects\Rich Text Application\Rich Text Application\Form1.vb        82        9        Rich Text Application

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Please help me with how to fix this!
Thanks,
Jake

vb Code:

RichTextBox1.Find("text to find")

What happens when you type this much

RichTextBox1.Find(

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Originally Posted by .paul.

vb Code:

RichTextBox1.Find("text to find")

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That only looks for the words "text to find". I want the user to be able to type the word(s) they want to find in a box instead of just having the program find those three words. :/

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Originally Posted by dbasnett

What happens when you type this much

RichTextBox1.Find(

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It shows a blue squiggly line to the bottom-right of the "("

If you put the cursor to the right of the blue squiggly and press space, what happens?

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Originally Posted by dbasnett

If you put the cursor to the right of the blue squiggly and press space, what happens?

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It moves the blue squiggly over to the right one space

vb Code:

RichTextBox1.Find(textbox1.text)

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Originally Posted by .paul.

vb Code:

RichTextBox1.Find(textbox1.text)

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I put:

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RichTextBox1.Find(RichTextBox1.Text)

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and no errors showed up, but when I run the application and click "Find" nothing happens :(

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Originally Posted by Tech Geek 7331

That only looks for the words "text to find". I want the user to be able to type the word(s) they want to find in a box instead of just having the program find those three words. :/

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in case i misunderstood you, there is no find dialog box. you'd have to create your own custom dialog

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Originally Posted by .paul.

in case i misunderstood you, there is no find dialog box. you'd have to create your own custom dialog

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Ohh boy :eek:

RichTextBox1.Find(RichTextBox1.Text)???

that tells the richtextbox to find it's own text, which would always return 0. the find method returns an integer indicating the character index position of the found text.

assuming your richtextbox text is:

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the quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog

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vb Code:

RichTextBox1.selectionstart = RichTextBox1.Find("quick") 'it will find at index 4
richtextbox1.selectionlength = 5 '"quick" = 5 characters

will find + select the search text

Quote:

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Originally Posted by .paul.

RichTextBox1.Find(RichTextBox1.Text)???

that tells the richtextbox to find it's own text, which would always return 0. the find method returns an integer indicating the character index position of the found text.

assuming your richtextbox text is:

vb Code:

RichTextBox1.selectionstart = RichTextBox1.Find("quick") 'it will find at index 4
richtextbox1.selectionlength = 5 '"quick" = 5 characters

will find + select the search text

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...How good are you at making Find dialog boxes? :p

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Originally Posted by Tech Geek 7331

It moves the blue squiggly over to the right one space

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IntelliSense should be showing some (7?) hints...

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/libr...tbox.find.aspx