Basic VB question

TerrorFirmer

I am making an extremely basic program in visual basic. I am a total beginner. I have a text box with

let text1.text = "blah blah blah blah" etc.

Now the only problem is, I have a narrow text box on my form - how do I get the text to stick within the box rather then have it going on a single line all the way across the first line of the text box that you have to scroll across to see?

Any help appreciated. I'm sure its something that'd take all of 1 second to find...

Basq

Not fully sure what you mean but try setting the "Multiline" property to true.

It should wrap the text on the line.

youcancallmeal

Do you want to post a screenshot to make it clearer what were lookin at?

TerrorFirmer

basquille - you're the man.

Sorry i wasn't a little clearer.

Basq

Was unsure if you meant you wanted it Multiline (to wrap text onto the next line as it gets longer) or if you actually wanted to force a string onto a new line via "\r\n" but glad you got it sorted.

TerrorFirmer

Its actually forcing the string onto the next line I want - can you put an example up using the necessary code? Sorry about this, and thanks. First day using VB today and I think I'm doing relatively ok

Beano

If you want to force it on to the next line your string needs a carriage return\line feed character in it at the point you want it to break, just like basquille said. So if you have a multiline textbox and your string is "This is the first line " & vbcrlf & " this is the second line" it will wrap to the second line after "first line"

Basq

Think Beano has got it there. Forgot all about the vbCrLf. It's been ages since i done VB so i was gonna suggest:

[PHP]Text1.Text = "This is the first line!\r\n This is the second line! \r\nThis is the third line!"[/PHP]

But that wouldn't have worked. Shows what 4 years of Java and C# does to you.

Keep at it anyways!

TerrorFirmer

Great stuff - thanks a million guys.

TerrorFirmer

Thanks again lads. Made my first ever program with VB today, not great given I've just started but it ain't too bad either. I'll pick up all of the advanced stuff as I go along.

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Its stupid, and you wouldnt get it unless you were either me or my childish friend.

Anyway thanks lads, very much appreciate the help.

Basq

Very good work, HavoK.. it's not stupid at all. With it, you have mastered the basics. Writing to text boxes, performing action events on buttons etc.

We all had to start somewhere.. definitely keep at it anyways!

Three tutorials covering the basics here.. i recommend giving writing to and reading from a text file a go next. Quite easy but it can be very powerful.. and you wouldn't believe how often you'd use it.

I do this 37.5 hours a week for a career so i promote it anyway i can.

PS - love the gibbon mouse cursor - nifty!