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Working with RichTextBox Control in vb.net

Posted by Deepak Kumar Verma in Articles | Visual Basic 2010 on February 17, 2011

Tags: .rtf, box, control, load, rich, save, text, vb.net, visual basic articles, visual basic tutorials

Here we learn how to format text in RichTextBox Control and save & load .rtf (Rich Text Format) file to/from HDD.

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Rich Text Boxes are similar to Text Boxes but having some advance features. Rich Text Boxes allow us to do text formatting (eg. bold, italic, underline, color, etc.).

We can also make our own word processor by using RichTextBox Control in vb.net and the text written in RichTextBox can be saved and loaded. It supports ".rtf" extension.

Code :

Public Class Form1
    Private Sub Button1_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click
        If RichTextBox1.SelectedText <> "" Then
            RichTextBox1.SelectionStart = RichTextBox1.Find(RichTextBox1.SelectedText
            Dim CurrentFont As Font = RichTextBox1.SelectionFont
            Dim NewFontStyle As New FontStyle
            With CurrentFont
                NewFontStyle = -((Not .Bold) * FontStyle.Bold)
                NewFontStyle += -(.Italic * FontStyle.Italic)
                NewFontStyle += -(.Underline * FontStyle.Underline)
                RichTextBox1.SelectionFont = New Font(CurrentFont, NewFontStyle)
            End With
            RichTextBox1.Focus()
        End If
    End Sub
    Private Sub Button7_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button7.Click
        End
    End Sub
    Private Sub Button2_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button2.Click
        If RichTextBox1.SelectedText <> "" Then
            RichTextBox1.SelectionStart = RichTextBox1.Find(RichTextBox1.SelectedText)
            Dim CurrentFont As Font = RichTextBox1.SelectionFont
            Dim NewFontStyle As New FontStyle
            With CurrentFont
                NewFontStyle = -((Not .Italic) * FontStyle.Italic)
                NewFontStyle += -(.Bold * FontStyle.Bold)
                NewFontStyle += -(.Underline * FontStyle.Underline)
                RichTextBox1.SelectionFont = New Font(CurrentFont, NewFontStyle)
            End With
            RichTextBox1.Focus()
        End If
    End Sub
    Private Sub Button3_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button3.Click
        If RichTextBox1.Text <> "" Then
            RichTextBox1.SelectionStart = RichTextBox1.Find(RichTextBox1.SelectedText)
            Dim CurrentFont As Font = RichTextBox1.SelectionFont
            Dim NewFontStyle As New FontStyle
            NewFontStyle = -((Not CurrentFont.Underline) * FontStyle.Underline)
            NewFontStyle += -(CurrentFont.Bold * FontStyle.Bold)
            NewFontStyle += -(CurrentFont.Italic * FontStyle.Italic)
            RichTextBox1.SelectionFont = New Font(CurrentFont, NewFontStyle)
        End If
        RichTextBox1.Focus()
    End Sub
    Private Sub Button11_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button11.Click
        If RichTextBox1.Text <> "" Then
            RichTextBox1.SelectionStart = RichTextBox1.Find(RichTextBox1.SelectedText)
            RichTextBox1.SelectionFont = New Font(RichTextBox1.Font, FontStyle.Regular)
            RichTextBox1.Focus()
        End If
    End Sub
    Private Sub Button4_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button4.Click
        If RichTextBox1.SelectedText <> "" Then
            RichTextBox1.SelectionStart = RichTextBox1.Find(RichTextBox1.SelectedText)
            RichTextBox1.SelectionColor = Color.Red
            RichTextBox1.Focus()
        End If
    End Sub
    Private Sub Button5_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button5.Click
        If RichTextBox1.SelectedText <> "" Then
            RichTextBox1.SelectionStart = RichTextBox1.Find(RichTextBox1.SelectedText)
                    RichTextBox1.SelectionColor = Color.Green
            RichTextBox1.Focus()
        End If
    End Sub
    Private Sub Button6_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button6.Click
        If RichTextBox1.SelectedText <> "" Then
            RichTextBox1.SelectionStart = RichTextBox1.Find(RichTextBox1.SelectedText)
            RichTextBox1.SelectionColor = Color.Blue
            RichTextBox1.Focus()
        End If
    End Sub
    Private Sub Button8_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button8.Click
        If RichTextBox1.SelectedText <> "" Then
            RichTextBox1.SelectionStart = RichTextBox1.Find(RichTextBox1.SelectedText)
            RichTextBox1.SelectionColor = Color.Black
            RichTextBox1.Focus()
        End If
    End Sub
    Private Sub Button10_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button10.Click
        Try
            RichTextBox1.LoadFile("File.rtf")
        Catch ex As Exception
            MsgBox(ex.Message)
        End Try
    End Sub
    Private Sub Button9_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button9.Click
        Try
            RichTextBox1.SaveFile("File.rtf")
        Catch ex As Exception
            MsgBox(ex.Message)

        End Try
  End Sub
    Private Sub Form1_Load(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles MyBase.Load
        RichTextBox1.Focus()
    End Sub
End Class