Creating Scrollable Text Boxes

[Miles Tones]

Another rookie question...

I would like to create a text box that allows you to continually append text, and view what you wish via a vertical scroll bar. The best analogy I have is an Instant Messaging window, a la AIM or ICQ.

I'm assuming I would set txtBoxName.ScrollBars to 2-Vertical, and txtBoxName.MultiLine to True.

How do you add text to the text box without overwriting the contents? For instance, if you have a statement txtBoxName.Text = "First Line", how do you avoid clobbering it with another statement txtBoxname.Text = "Second Line"? The only thing I can think of is to embed a return character at the end of each line of text. Is there an easy (or at least elegant!) way to do this?

Thanks much for your help!
-- Miles

[Phil Weber]

Instead of assigning new text to the .Text property, assign it to the .SelText property. You may include vbCrLf for line breaks as desired.

[Miles Tones]

Thanks Phil! Your suggestion works great. I hadn't hear of .SelText -- I'll look that one up.

Thanks again!
-- Miles

[mstraf]

before using SelText, you should set the insertion point at the end of the text, otherwise it is inserted wherever the pointer is (in case someone click with the cursor inside the text):

.SelStart = len(.Text)
.SelText = newstring & vbcrlf

Marco

[Miles Tones]

Good tip. Thanks Marco!