Disabling wordwrap in RichTextBoxes?

[WuzZ]

I'm trying to open a log file to be displayed in a richtextbox and it works fine. The problem is, a lot of the lines go beyond the width of the richtextbox and automatically carriage return to the next (wordwrap). Is there a way of preventing this and forcing the user to use the horizontal scroll bar to see the entire line?

Any help much appreciated.

[Hack]

Set the MultiLine property of the RichTextBox to False (unlike the standard text box, it is set to True by default)

[E-Link]

Hi ,
place the following code into a module...

Public Declare Function SendMessageLong Lib "user32" Alias "SendMessageA" (ByVal hwnd As Long, ByVal wMsg As Long, ByVal wParam As Long, ByVal lparam As Long) As Long
Public Const WM_USER = &H400
Public Const EM_SETTARGETDEVICE = (WM_USER + 72)

then to set word wrap, use this :

SendMessageLong RichTextBox.hwnd, EM_SETTARGETDEVICE, 0, 0

and to do the oposite use this one :

SendMessageLong RichTextBox.hwnd, EM_SETTARGETDEVICE, 0, 1

[Hack]

Toggling the MultiLine property seems to be a litte less code intensive.

[Static]

but Hack....

WuzZ wants multiline...just wants the line to be really long (no word wrap)


E-Link - Nice code.

I used to set then Right margin to some ungodly number (like 500000) then it would work , unless they put a super long line in.

Like your code better!

[WuzZ]

Hack,

Disabling the multiline property didn't work I'm afraid because there are multiple lines in the log file I'm using, hence only one line is displayed when this property is disabled.

E-Link,

I tried the code and it worked great.

Cheers for the help guys.

[Hack]

Hmmm...maybe next time I should try reading the question more carefully. Lol...I think I need more coffee...

[Static]

he he