Outputting bold text using PrintLine

[Ellie]

I have a VB6 program upgraded to vb.net and I need to use the printline
function to write to a text file but I need certain characters in bold.
Would anyone be able to tell me how to do this, if possible? Thanks, Ellie

[Ellie]

Re: Outputting bold text using PrintLine

I probably should have added that this file will then later be read into a
RichTextBox control and that is the only way it will be viewed.

"Ellie" <nospam@nospam. netwrote in message
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>I have a VB6 program upgraded to vb.net and I need to use the printline
>function to write to a text file but I need certain characters in bold.
>Would anyone be able to tell me how to do this, if possible? Thanks, Ellie
>

[Tom Shelton]

Re: Outputting bold text using PrintLine

On 2008-04-18, Ellie <nospam@nospam. netwrote:

I probably should have added that this file will then later be read into a
RichTextBox control and that is the only way it will be viewed.
>
"Ellie" <nospam@nospam. netwrote in message
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>>I have a VB6 program upgraded to vb.net and I need to use the printline
>>function to write to a text file but I need certain characters in bold.
>>Would anyone be able to tell me how to do this, if possible? Thanks, Ellie
>>

Then you need to write out the text in rtf. At the minimum that might
look like:

{\rtf
This is text with some \b bold\b0 .
}

You can find the complete rtf specs online - but that may not be
necessary if what your doing is simple. One way to figure out what you
need is to just use Wordpad to create a simple rtf document with the
feature you want, and then open the generated document in notepad. That
way you can see the rtf markup.

--
Tom Shelton

[Ellie]

Re: Outputting bold text using PrintLine

Thanks. I was able to write out a rtb file and then read it into the
richtextbox.


"Tom Shelton" <tom_shelton@YO UKNOWTHEDRILLco mcast.netwrote in message
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On 2008-04-18, Ellie <nospam@nospam. netwrote:

>I probably should have added that this file will then later be read into
>a
>RichTextBox control and that is the only way it will be viewed.
>>
>"Ellie" <nospam@nospam. netwrote in message
>news:uNw4A$VoI HA.3428@TK2MSFT NGP02.phx.gbl.. .

>>>I have a VB6 program upgraded to vb.net and I need to use the printline
>>>function to write to a text file but I need certain characters in bold.
>>>Would anyone be able to tell me how to do this, if possible? Thanks,
>>>Ellie
>>>

>
Then you need to write out the text in rtf. At the minimum that might
look like:
>
{\rtf
This is text with some \b bold\b0 .
}
>
You can find the complete rtf specs online - but that may not be
necessary if what your doing is simple. One way to figure out what you
need is to just use Wordpad to create a simple rtf document with the
feature you want, and then open the generated document in notepad. That
way you can see the rtf markup.
>
--
Tom Shelton