convert plain text to rich text

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' hi all

' suppose i have this:
Dim strText As String = "Hello! <b>this</b> text <i>is</i> formatted"
' NOTE: i want the "this" to be bold and the "is" italic

' but when i do this:
Me.RichTextBox1.TextRTF = strText
' the the richtextbox shows a string exactly as typed above instead of
actually applying the formatting.

what am I doing wrong?
does anyone know if it's possible to get the results i'm expecting?

thx,
Zacho
 
Zachovich said:
' suppose i have this:
Dim strText As String = "Hello! <b>this</b> text <i>is</i> formatted"
' NOTE: i want the "this" to be bold and the "is" italic

' but when i do this:
Me.RichTextBox1.TextRTF = strText
' the the richtextbox shows a string exactly as typed above instead of
actually applying the formatting.

what am I doing wrong?
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The string you are using has HTML tags. The richtext editor doesn't have a
clue what to do with those. RTF is a completely different format from HTML.
does anyone know if it's possible to get the results i'm expecting?
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Assuming you have HTML content and need to transfer the formatting to RTF,
not easily. Of course it would be possible to convert the one into the
other, I guess - as long as the various formatting options are supported
in both worlds. Here's an RTF spec:
http://www.biblioscape.com/rtf15_spec.htm

Depending on what you want to do, a much more useful idea might be to use
an IE ActiveX control instead of the RichTextBox and just display the HTML
code as it is.


Oliver Sturm
 
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