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Philip
Philip

Reputation: 3

C# Auto Move to Next Line of Multiline Textbox

I've been tasked with creating a feedback dialogue box to work in conjunction which offers the user simple text based feedback on what operations are occurring. E.g. master switch turned on, hob 1 turned on. I got the text response to display in a multiline textbox, but can only get it to write on the first line therefore overwriting whatever was previously there before. Is there a way to get new text responses to appear on the line below any previous inputs? This is where I'm up to:

if(MasterOnOff.Checked == true)
{
FeedbackTextBox.Text = "Master Switch On";
}
if(MasterOnOff.Checked == false)
{
FeedbackTextBox.Text = "Master Switch Off";
}

Working in C# Windows Forms, any help massively appreciated!

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1317

Answers (3)

Faiq Adeel
Faiq Adeel

Reputation: 1

Try adding the following line to the textbox code in the designer class:

this.textBox1.Multiline = true;

Upvotes: 0

Flow4k
Flow4k

Reputation: 96

Try

multilineTextBox.Text += "Your message" + Environment.NewLine;

it´s equal to 

multilineTextBox.Text = multilineTextBox.Text + "Your message" + Environment.NewLine;

Upvotes: 1

mottosson
mottosson

Reputation: 3753

Instead of FeedbackTextBox.Text = "..." which replaces the text in your textbox, try to append to the end of it by using += instead:

FeedbackTextBox.Text += "Master Switch Off\n".

which is the same as

FeedbackTextBox.Text = FeedbackTextBox.Text + "Master Switch Off\n"

The \n part is just the character for new line so that it doesn't add everything as a single line.

Upvotes: 0

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