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RichTextBox Control - Loading and saving files

James Crowley

Loading and saving files

You can load and save files in 2 different formats; RTF and Plain Text. To load a file use the following syntax:

RichTextBox1.LoadFile FilePath, Format

Where format is either the constant rtfRTF (Rich Text Format) or rtfText (Plain Text).

RichTextBox1.LoadFile "C:Document1.rtf", rtfRTF

Loads C:Document1.rtf into RichTextBox1 in RTF

To Save a file use the following syntax:

RichTextBox1.SaveFile FilePath, Format

So

RichTextBox1.SaveFile RichTextBox1.Filename, rtfRTF

This saves the current file in RTF. RichTextBox1.Filename stores the current files path.

James first started writing tutorials on Visual Basic in 1999 whilst starting this website (then known as VB Web). Since then, the site has grown rapidly, and James has written numerous tutorials, articles and reviews on VB, PHP, ASP and C#. In October 2003, James formed the company Developer Fusion Ltd, which owns this website, and also offers various development services. In his spare time, he's a 3rd year undergraduate studying Computer Science in the UK. He's also a Visual Basic MVP.

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  • Re: Read Only Property

    Posted by mmarksbury on 24 Apr 2008

    This is long past the topic post date but...

     I used the selection method (where you select text and then update it), for formatting the output of an application's process in a RTF. ...

  • Re: Read Only Property

    Posted by magiel on 06 Jan 2007

    I am had the same proplems;


    RichTextBox1.SelectionFont.Bold
    RichTextBox1.SelectionFont.Underline etc are readonly


    Solved them the following way


    ...

  • Re: Pre-formatted text/Cursor position

    Posted by Verdi on 21 Sep 2006

    Kylua, your efforts were not wasted...


    You have probably saved me a week's worth of head-pounding. Why it is so difficult to programmatically modify RTF using this control is beyond me. All...

  • Re: Pre-formatted text/Cursor position

    Posted by Kylua on 31 Jul 2006

    I spent AGES working thru this one and couldn't find it anywhere!


    The basic problem is that you have to update the richtextbox.rtf, not .text.


    And it is very fussy about goes in the...

  • can't get EM_SETTEXTMODE to respond

    Posted by vb_lover on 06 Dec 2005

    James Crowley:

    I am using vb6sp6(EM_SETTEXTMODE didn't work with vb6sp4 either) RTB control, I have already implemented URL detection similar to yours. However now i am trying to get MULTI-LEVEL U...