Coral

Success! Thanks a million.

This code works :

Do Until localRS.EOF
   
   lEntries = lEntries + 1
   ReDim Preserve m_lPos(lEntries), m_lLength(lEntries)
   
   m_lPos(lEntries) = Len(rtfHelpInfo.Text)  '  I tried using Find and Span
methods and these simply wouldn't find the inserted value
   m_lLength(lEntries) = Len(localRS!Description)
   
   rtfHelpInfo.Text = rtfHelpInfo.Text & localRS!Description & vbCrLf &
vbCrLf
   rtfHelpInfo.Text = rtfHelpInfo.Text & localRS!Usage & vbCrLf & vbCrLf
   
   localRS.MoveNext

Loop

' now do the highlighting

For iSub = 1 To UBound(m_lPos)
          
    rtfHelpInfo.SelStart = m_lPos(iSub)
    rtfHelpInfo.SelLength = m_lLength(iSub)
    rtfHelpInfo.SelBold = True

Next

-----Original Message-----
From: Coral Johnson [mailto:coral.johnson@r...]
Sent: 25 September 2002 04:58
To: professional vb
Subject: [pro_vb] RE: Rich Text Boxes


Simon
I eventually got something like this working, like you, after considerable
experimentation.  What happens is that when you append a string to the text
property, you lose all formatting.  What I resorted to doing was creating an
array of locations to be formatted (ie start, length, formatting info), as I
loaded the rich text box.  Then I went thru the array, to format each piece
of text after the rich text box was fully loaded.
Coral

>
> Subject: RE: Rich Text Boxes
> From: "Lester, Simon" <Simon.Lester@c...>
> Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2002 17:33:37 +0100
> X-Message-Number: 33
>
> Thanks Pete
>
> I've got code working like that (where the text appears on the screen, the
> user selects a part of it and then presses a "make bold" button
> etc and this
> all works fine. In another part of the system I load the text from a
> database description, usage fields) and want to set the
> description to bold
> as I load it ie programmatically rather than an end user
> mouseclick and this
> is what I can't make work and has driven me mad for several
> (wasted) hours!
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Peter N. Kipe [mailto:pkipe@c...]
> Sent: 24 September 2002 16:14
> To: professional vb
> Subject: [pro_vb] RE: Rich Text Boxes
>
>
> My code for toggling bold looks like this:
>
>     rtbComments.SelBold = Not rtbComments.SelBold
>
> You need to be sure there's no other event that might be affecting your
> text -- like SelChange.
>
> Pete
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Lester, Simon [mailto:Simon.Lester@c...]
> Sent: Tuesday, September 24, 2002 11:01 AM
> To: professional vb
> Subject: [pro_vb] Rich Text Boxes
>
>
> Hi
>
> I'm working with richtext boxes in VB6 and want to achieve a mixed
> bold/regular font pattern like this :
>
> Heading 1
> Explanation ......
>
> Heading 2
> explanation ...
>
> etc
>
> This I can happily do at run time from the database except that I
> can't get
> the headings to be bold - I've tried using the selstart/length properties
> and then selbold which all works but as soon as the next heading
> is selected
> all previous selections (and their bold settings) are lost. I've
> also looked
> at embedding the necessary RTF code around my data but this has not worked
> despite many different approaches.
>
> Anyone else tried this and had more luck?
>
> Simon Lester (020 7332 3984)
>
>
>
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