Wrap Text in RichTextBox 1

[victoryhighway2]

Hello All,
I've been searching the 'net for quite a while looking for a way to use the RichTextBox control (or some equivalent) to simulate a text display of one of our products in a Visual Basic 6.0 application. The only problem that I've run into so far is that the RichTextBox will perform word-wrapping of the lines, but our product line wraps by character only.

For Example:
Jack An
d Jill W
ent Down
the Hill.

Does anyone know how to do this with the RichTextBox, or is there an alternative that will allow this?

Regards,
Geoffrey

 

[HarleyQuinn]

On what criteria does it wrap the characters?

Cheers

HarleyQuinn
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[Hypetia]

Most simple way to do this is to convert all spaces with non-breaking spaces. Non-breaking spaces behave like ordinary characters and Windows does not perform word-wrapping with these characters.

In this way, as there is no space in your message, Windows automatically performs character-wrapping instead of word-wrapping.

Place a RichTextBox control on your form and test the following code.
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[tt]
Option Explicit

Private Sub Form_Load()
'initialize RTB
With RichTextBox1
.Move 0, 0, 1890, 3000
.Font = "Times New Roman"
.Font.Size = 24
End With

Dim S As String
S = "Jack And Jill Went Down the Hill."
'replace spaces with non-breaking spaces
S = Replace$(S, Chr$(32), Chr$(160))

'assign to RTB
RichTextBox1.Text = S
End Sub[/tt]