Text Editor

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Hi,
I want to make text editor in windows form.The text editor should be like for instance: gmail compose mail window which has all the formatting tools like cut,copy,paste,bold,italic etc.

how can we do this in .Net windows application?

Thanks

Posted 2-Apr-10 22:31pm

Summitforfriends

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Solution 1

Summitforfriends wrote:
how can we do this in .Net windows application?

By designing a form with menus, buttons, labels, text boxes etc, and adding some code to process all the keystrokes. How else do you think it can be done?

Posted 2-Apr-10 22:33pm

Richard MacCutchan

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look into Scintilla.NET

Scintilla.NET[^]

Posted 15-Apr-10 15:56pm

TheGreatAndPowerfulOz

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Ankur^\m/ · Accepted Answer · 2010-04-03T01:28:00

Solution 2

What Richard suggested is a "programmer way" of doing this.
I would suggest an easy way for you. Check this out:
RichTextBox Control (Windows Forms)[^]

Posted 3-Apr-10 1:28am

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