HELP: Printing carriage return character

[Rob Lemieux]

Using Visual Basic 6.0

I want the program to be able to print the carriage return.

txtDisplay.Text = "Welcome to" + Chr(13) + "my demo."

All I get is

Welcome to|my demo.

With some strange character instead!

[Stephane Richard]

Re: Printing carriage return character

Hi Rob,

you need to set the textbox's MultiLine property to true....you can do it at
Design time and in run time.

In run time:
txtDisplay.Mult iLine = True

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"Rob Lemieux" <lrlemieux@hotm ail.com> wrote in message
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> Using Visual Basic 6.0
>
> I want the program to be able to print the carriage return.
>
> txtDisplay.Text = "Welcome to" + Chr(13) + "my demo."
>
> All I get is
>
> Welcome to|my demo.
>
> With some strange character instead!
>
>
>[/color]

[Bob Butler]

Re: Printing carriage return character

"Stephane Richard" <stephane.richa rd@verizon.net> wrote in message
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> Hi Rob,
>
> you need to set the textbox's MultiLine property to true....you can
> do it at Design time and in run time.
>
> In run time:
> txtDisplay.Mult iLine = True[/color]

Did you try that? I get "can't assign to read-only property"
It has to be set at design time

[Rob Lemieux]

Re: Printing carriage return character

I got my solution from the sister group "com.lang.basic .visual":

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You need both a carriage return AND a linefeed and the textbox's Multiline
property must be True

txtDisplay.Text = "Welcome to" & Chr$(13) & Chr$(10) & "my demo."
or
txtDisplay.Text = "Welcome to" & vbCRLF & "my demo."
or
txtDisplay.Text = "Welcome to" & vbNewLine & "my demo."

Note that Chr$ is slightly faster than Chr because Chr$ returns a string
directly while Chr returns a string inside a Variant; also, the & operand
is specifically meant for string concatenation and using + can lead to
trouble if you aren't careful about the data types
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"Bob Butler" <tiredofit@nosp am.com> wrote in message
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> "Stephane Richard" <stephane.richa rd@verizon.net> wrote in message
> news:wsGUa.5568 $cM6.2317@nwrdn y01.gnilink.net[color=green]
> > Hi Rob,
> >
> > you need to set the textbox's MultiLine property to true....you can
> > do it at Design time and in run time.
> >
> > In run time:
> > txtDisplay.Mult iLine = True[/color]
>
> Did you try that? I get "can't assign to read-only property"
> It has to be set at design time
>
>[/color]

[J French]

Re: HELP: Printing carriage return character

On Sat, 26 Jul 2003 21:23:29 -0400, "Rob Lemieux"
<lrlemieux@hotm ail.com> wrote:
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>Using Visual Basic 6.0
>
>I want the program to be able to print the carriage return.
>
>txtDisplay.Tex t = "Welcome to" + Chr(13) + "my demo."[/color]
Is txtDisplay a Textbox ?
If so is it MultiLine ?

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>
>All I get is
>
>Welcome to|my demo.
>
>With some strange character instead!
>
>
>[/color]