Highlighting within Textboxes

[Weeeegie]

I've been working on programming a GUI for a piece of hardware, I'm currently doing the error rejection code. I have a textbox full of data (very long), and I can flag up individual lines, or character numbers when they are in error (i.e. not within the defined limits). I want to be able to somehow highlight these lines so it is easier to spot these lines (not necessarily contiguous).

Anyone got any idea how I can do this?

 

[Golom]

Rather than a text box, look into a RTB (Rich Text Box) control. The regular text box has trouble doing this but you can set multiple selections; highlights; different fonts; different colors, etc. in a RTB.

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[Knicks]

Or you could easily put a long rectangular box behind all your controls on the detail line, set it to background and transparent and use an IF statement on the details "on format" property to set the the box to background color red or something if a condition of one of the fields is met.

 

[Knicks]

OR

If [SumOfSedatives] >= ([Text29] + [Text31]) And [SumOfSedatives] < ([Text29] + [Text31] + [Text31]) Then


Me.Detail.BackColor = 13434828

ElseIf [SumOfSedatives] >= ([Text29] + [Text31] + [Text31]) Then

Me.Detail.BackColor = 255
Else
Me.Detail.BackColor = 16777215

End If