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

[Tech Geek 7331]

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:

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

And here's the error:

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

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

[.paul.]

RichTextBox1.Find("text to find")

[dbasnett]

What happens when you type this much

RichTextBox1.Find(

[Tech Geek 7331]

RichTextBox1.Find("text to find")

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. :/

[Tech Geek 7331]

What happens when you type this much

RichTextBox1.Find(

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

[dbasnett]

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

[Tech Geek 7331]

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

It moves the blue squiggly over to the right one space

[.paul.]

RichTextBox1.Find(textbox1.text)

[Tech Geek 7331]

RichTextBox1.Find(textbox1.text)

I put:

RichTextBox1.Find(RichTextBox1.Text)

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

[.paul.]

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. :/

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

[Tech Geek 7331]

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

Ohh boy

[.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:

the quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog

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

will find + select the search text

[Tech Geek 7331]

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:

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

will find + select the search text

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

[dbasnett]

It moves the blue squiggly over to the right one space

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

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