RichTextBox: Background colors for phrases

[Jekteir]

Hi, I'm working on a text-based client (MUD client) which interprets standard ANSI color codes. The program displays the colors in a RichTextBox with a black overall background color, and I have successfully implemented interpretation of foreground text color. However, there are also codes for background color - codes which are intended to affect only the background of the selected text, not the whole box, much as 'highlight' does in MS Word. However, I have been unsuccessful in producing this effect programatically.

I do know that it is possible to display such an effect, because if you go into MS Word and select a 'highlight color' for some text, and then copy and paste that text into a VB RichTextBox, it is displayed with the highlight in the richtextbox.

I have been unsuccessful with taking RTF codes from word files and incorporating them into the

.selRTF

at the end of the textbox data, primarily because the richtextbox just ignores the codes, and seems to work on different RTF file codes than Word does.

Can anyone help me with how to achieve this through the program? Thanks.

David Midgley
Game Programmer

 

[Jekteir]

I am delighted to say I found a programmatical way of adding the necessary highlighted RTF to the text. You can get the code etc. at

http://pub13.ezboard.com/fvisualbasicexplorerstringstextandfiles.showMessage?topicID=1967.topic

. Let's hope it stays there!

David Midgley
Game Programmer