Changing Text colour

[Chloe]

Hi Guys

I have a textbox on my form that i want to change the colour of the text.

I want to change the colour so it has 3 different colours set:

- Any text that is enclosed in quote marks (e.g "this text is black") is set to black.
- The Certain Characters left bracket(<) right bracket(>) forward slash(/) quote marks(") and equals sign(=) are set to blue
- All other text is set to Red

Is there a way of doing this?

I have used the below code and it changes the whole text to the colour Red:

TextBox1.ForeColor = Color.Red

Is there a way now of specifying which text is set to which colour as per the above statements?

Kind Regards,
Chloe ~X~

[HairyMonkeyMan]

You need a rich text box. You will have to run your text through a parsing function to format it into rich text format (there are docs online describing the format). You probably want to save the original text and parse into the rich textbox for display purposes.

[HairyMonkeyMan]

Check this out: http://www.startvbdotnet.com/controls/rtb.aspx