Highlighting keywords on a form?

[CharlesCVA]

HI!

My Name is charlie and i do database work for SAIC.

As of right now i have a textbox that is displaying data. it doesnt need to be a textbox, but that is what i am using.

I would like to have someones input on how i go about HIGHLIGHTING a variable keyword in this "text area" whether it be a textbox or LARGE Label.

At any point there could be very large amounts of text and i would like to possibly use a textbox because of scrollbars. Any Help would be appreciated. Thanks

-Charlie

- Why didnt we just start out keeping things simple?

 

[CharlesCVA]

well i have found out that i should use an RTF control instead of regular textbox. however i have also discovered that RTF controls are not available in the professional version of office 2003. any advice?

- Why didnt we just start out keeping things simple?

 

[MajP]

Without a rich text box, you better think of another type of display. Maybe doable with some heavy coding of the windows API, but I doubt it. Unfortunately, this is a piece of cake with a RTB

 

[CharlesCVA]

Yea i know. i am currently trying to figure out how to output my textbox to a .html file. then ill use a replace string function and replace my keywords with "<B>" + keyword + "</B>. then i will navigate to that textfile with a webbrowser. =) any tips on getting this textbox to output to textfile? and then deleteing the textfile after the page loads? this is pretty security concious work and i dont want any textfiles laying around.

- Why didnt we just start out keeping things simple?