current cursor location

[brown monkey]

how do i know what is the current location of the cursor inside a richtextbox? something like [if i type] brown monkey is not me and the cursor is in m, i have 7. thanks...

[Pirate]

One way , use MousePosition methods .

MousePosition.X
MousePosition.Y

[brown monkey]

sorry for not clearing the things that i want. by the way pirate mate, thanks for the reply. i mean the blinking cursor inside richtextbox. something like if i have the brown monkey is not me text in the richtextbox and [say] if i have the cursor in the m of monkey, i can get the value 7. sort of 7th character. thanks

[Pirate]

I see . Let me try to do you a demo!

[brown monkey]

i think this is it

dim i as integer=richtextbox1.selectionstart
.
.
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richtextbox1.selectionstart=i

is this the way mate? i don't know much about this. lol...

[Pirate]

Yeah . You just put that code in the MouseDown or MouseUp events . It's up to you .

[brown monkey]

thanks so much pirate mate.

[Pirate]

You solved your own problem .

[brown monkey]

i've got another prob [related]. how do i get the current string where the cursor is located. say, brown monkey is not me text and the cursor is in m of monkey. i want to get the string monkey...