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Is there a control, class, or technique that will allow me to add features

from another control to an existing control. For example is it possible to

take the carat position (in text) or SelStart & SelLength properties of the

Rich Text Box and add them to a control that doesn't offer these features

such as the WebBrowser Object or the DHTMLEdit Object?



Alternatively, can you take the property that contains and displays the

document HTML in the WebBrowser Object and add it to the Rich Text Object so

that the Rich Text box can display HTML without you having to recode to the

w3c specification yourself?



Alternatively, is there a straight HTML WYSIWYG edit box with all the

functionality of the Rich Text Edit Box available to VB2005Pro?



Thanks in Advance...



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Put another way; all I need to do is gain *complete* control of how user

input affects the HTML while displaying the text as formatted text. All I

need from VB2005Pro is an accurate display of the formatted text. Coding

markup, particularly valid markup is my specialty but I am unwilling to

rewrite an entire browser component just to include some basic text-handling

functions - it would probably prove easier to learn IL (Intermediate

Language), decompile both WebBrowser and Rich Text objects, and then mix and

match...



So, using the WebBrowser object with design mode on eg.



doc11 = DirectCast(WebBrowser1.Document.DomDocument, MSHTML.IHTMLDocument2)

doc11.DesignMode = "On"



And, after typing away, the user shifts the position of the carat by

clicking within WebBrowser1 with the mouse. How do I return either the plain

text position or the formatted text position of the carat? IE how do I get

the cursor position?



Likewise, a slection of text is highlighted. Let's say that the selection

highlighted or selected is repeated many times prior to and after the

selection in the text being edited. How do I retrieve the beginning and

length or end of the selection or highlight?



Or is learning to shuffle in IL the way to go...?



TIA

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If you want a little more control over the web browser control from

.Net you might want to take a look at

www.netrixcomponent.net/">www.netrixcomponent.net/

The author of that component has done a great deal of work to

make all sorts of features accessible to mere mortals. Far too much

work to do yourself if your end product is not a competing component.



The web browser and RichTextBox controls are not implemented

in .Net, so you would have a difficult time "decompiling" them to

learn what makes them tick (if that was what you meant).



Regards,



Joergen Bech







On Sat, 23 Jun 2007 22:22:33 +1000, "Number 11950 - GPEMC! Replace

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