Button with rich text capabilities

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Sebastian Rettig - 30 Mar 2006 15:32 GMT

Hi,

I need a button that can display rich text previously created with a
rich edit control.
As far as I know there is no such thing in .NET (maybe I'm wrong there,
I'm fairly new to .NET).

A few years ago, I created such a control with MFC by myself by using
an owner-drawn button and a transparent rich edit control for drawing
its contents. It worked quite well. Do you think the same thing is
possible in .NET?
Nevertheless it would be great if someone could point me to an already
existing custom control or an easier solution.

Bye
Sebastian

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Kevin Spencer - 30 Mar 2006 18:11 GMT

Sure it's possible. Just create a transparent RichTextBox. To do this, you
would create a class that inherits RichTextBox, and use the SetStyle method
to enable transparency.

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> Sebastian

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Herfried K. Wagner [MVP] - 30 Mar 2006 23:15 GMT

"Kevin Spencer" <kevin@DIESPAMMERSDIEtakempis.com> schrieb:

> Sure it's possible. Just create a transparent RichTextBox. To do this, you
> would create a class that inherits RichTextBox, and use the SetStyle
> method to enable transparency.

However, you'll have to redirect events when taking this approach.

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