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c#winformscolorstextbox
HelpNeeder
HelpNeeder

Reputation: 6480

Is it possible to have differently colored lines in multiline text box?

Is it possible to have differently colored lines in multiline text box?

I'm adding data to the text box and I want to clarify for the user different types of text by color.

How to do this if it's possible?

Upvotes: 9

Views: 15877

Answers (4)

WeirDoIt
WeirDoIt

Reputation: 11

I find a way without using the RichTextBox

        WrapPanel panel = new WrapPanel();
        foreach (....)
        {

            TextBlock tb = new TextBlock();
            if(.....)
                tb.Foreground = Brushes.Red;
            else
            {
                tb.Foreground = Brushes.LemonChiffon;
            panel.Children.Add(tb);
         }

and finally

                stackPanel.Children.Add(panel);
                
            }
            scrollViewer.Content = stackPanel;
            scrollViewer.CanContentScroll = true;
            window.Content = scrollViewer;
            window.Show();

Its not necessary to ust the Scrollviewer. But well in my App i needed it. However like this its possible to generate Multicolor text...and an extra for free. Each part of the text can easiely have a ToolTip

Upvotes: 1

Hituptony
Hituptony

Reputation: 2860

So depending on how you want the output, there's an browser/html control (basically a box), that you can pass a URL or a string of HTML, depending on what you're doing, you might want to use the RickTextBox - which has formatting commands - you could use regular expressions, or the offset of the text and then use a "set color" command on the text box with an IF structure.

Upvotes: 1

Brian Rogers
Brian Rogers

Reputation: 129657

You can do this if you use a RichTextBox control. See the documentation here (particularly look at the Remarks and Examples sections). The standard TextBox does not offer this capability.

Upvotes: 10

M.Babcock
M.Babcock

Reputation: 18965

The standard Winforms textbox does not have this ability (and adding it would be troublesome).

You could look at using the System.Windows.Forms.RichTextBox as an alternative for this or one of the many commercial alternatives.

Upvotes: 3

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