Make some text bold

[salvelinus]

Is it possible to make only part of a control's text, or a string, bold? It looks like it's all or nothing. Thanks.

[nahya^^]

not sure about textbox... but look into richtext box.

richNewCode.SelectionFont = New Font(richNewCode.SelectionFont.Name, cmbFont.SelectedIndex - 1, richNewCode.Font.Style.Bold)

[salvelinus]

Thanks, I can do the rich textbox, but am really looking for a label or string that can be used to set the label's text (or button, whatever). I tried bolding a selection in a richtextbox and setting a label's text to the that, but it lost the formatting.

[Pirate]

You can , by drawing the string with DrawString function in the Graphics Class .

[salvelinus]

Thanks, Pirate. Never used that before. In the code below, I get an error "Expression does not produve a value" in the call to G.DrawString. Can you see what's wrong?

Private Sub cmdBold_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles cmdBold.Click
        Dim G As Graphics
        Dim F As New Font(Label1.Font.Name, Label1.Font.Size, FontStyle.Bold)
        Dim x, y As Integer
 
        Label1.Text = "Select a "
        x = Label1.Text.Length
        y = Label1.Height
        G = Me.CreateGraphics
        Label1.Text += G.DrawString("Project", F, New SolidBrush(Color.Black), x, y)
    End Sub

[Pirate]

Originally posted by salvelinus
Thanks, Pirate. Never used that before. In the code below, I get an error "Expression does not produve a value" in the call to G.DrawString. Can you see what's wrong?

Label1.Text += G.DrawString("Project", F, New SolidBrush(Color.Black), x, y)

Here you are assigning a sub to text property of the textbox control . You can't do that but what do you want to do exactly ?

[salvelinus]

What I'm trying for is for a label text to look like:
Select a Project
Thanks.

[Pirate]

Originally posted by salvelinus
What I'm trying for is for a label text to look like:
Select a Project
Thanks.

Sample :