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Trackbar Percent to richtextbox Text

i have a Trackbar and want it to add the Current Value to a richtextbox Text without replacing the whole Text Line
richTextBox1.Rtf = richTextBox1.Rtf.Replace("aimbot_aimtime=85.000000", "aimbot_aimtime=" + trackbarpercent.Text + ".000000");
(i get the Value from my Label)
Thats what im using right now but it only Replaces it if the Text is "aimbot_aimtime=85.000000"
i want it to add the new Value after "aimbot_aimtime=NEWVALUE" but i cant get it to work atm

#Marc Lyon
I think a better way for me is to Replace the Line itself cause its always Line 7
Got it working, thanks to all who helped :)
void changeLine(RichTextBox RTB, int line, string text)
{
int s1 = RTB.GetFirstCharIndexFromLine(line);
int s2 = line < RTB.Lines.Count() - 1 ?
RTB.GetFirstCharIndexFromLine(line + 1) - 1 :
RTB.Text.Length;
RTB.Select(s1, s2 - s1);
RTB.SelectedText = text;
}
private void trackbarpercent_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
changeLine(richTextBox1, 7, "aimbot_aimtime=" + aimtimetrackbar.Value + ".000000");
}

You have to know what the value is in order to replace it, which is why it only works when the value is your default value of 85.
In order to replace the text with the new text, you will have to track the previous value somewhere to use in your replacement. This means a field in your form, a property in some class. Let's say you create an int field on your form (myForm) called oldAimbot_aimtime. Every time the slider changes, put old value into this field. now your code becomes:
var prompt = "aimbot_aimtime=";
var oldvalue = string.Format("{0}{1}", prompt, myForm.oldAimbot_aimtime);
var newvalue = string.Format("{0}{1}", prompt, {NEWVALUE}.Format("#.######");
richTextBox1.Rtf = richTextBox1.Rtf.Replace(oldvalue, newvalue);
This code is off the top of my head and may not work exact, but it should replace the value. What is the value of using a richtextbox on a config screen? Can you post a screenshot?
OK, I see the screenshot. Ethics aside (not sure there is such a thing as a legit aimbot). You are using the richtextbox presumably because it was the easiest control for you to style...
Where you use the richtextbox is probably better suited to a GridView, ListBox, maybe even a treeview where you have finer control over each element.
If you want to use the richtext, write code which emits each option, then you can obtain exact values to use in rtf.Replace()commands
Hope this helps.

Clipboard can copy a few words?

I'm weak in English so I hope you will understand this.
I learned yesterday that Clipboard is copy.
//textBox1.Text = "My name is not exciting";
Clipboard.SetText(textBox1.Text);
textBox2.Text = Clipboard.GetText();
This code copies your everything from the textbox1 and paste it in textbox2 right?
So it's possible to copy only a few words from textbox1 and paste it in textbox2?
If you don't understand, I'm want copy only a few words not all the line.
Even if this high level code still bring me :)

Clipboard.GetText(); will return the raw copied elements.
What you can do is save them to some variable:
string text = Clipboard().GetText();
Then do something with text, to get the elements you need:
textBox2.Text = text.Substring(0, 10); // An example.
The main idea to take away from this is, GetText() will give you a string. It's up to you to slice and dice that string any way you see fit and then make use of the results.

You don't need the Clipboard for this. Your user won't like that ;)
Just create a variable like this:
string box1Content = textBox1.Text;
textBox2.Text = boxContent;
You can even skip that variable.
If you really want to use the clipboard, your way is doing that.
For just getting some text out of the textbox you can either use substring or regular expressions.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aka44szs.aspx
Good luck

Daniel, the substring method is a good one to use. You simply tell it where you want to take a piece of your text and it will create a new string of just that.
textBox1.Text = "MY name is not exciting";
//pretend you only want "not exciting" to show
int index = textBox1.Text.IndexOf("not");//get the index of where "not" shows up so you can cut away starting on that word.
string partofText = textBox1.Text.Substring(index);//substring uses the index (in this case, index of "not") to take a piece of the text.
Clipboard.SetText(partofText);
textBox2.Text = Clipboard.GetText();

To my mind is better idea to take selected text from text box.
I'm not sure witch kind of text box you are using but so show example on WPF you should use TextBox.SelectedText property.

I like linq. :-)
This is a example for splitting the string, enumerable it and concats in one:
textBox1.Text = "My name is not exciting";
int firstWord = 2;
int lastWord = 4;
string[] wordList = textBox1.Text.Split(new[] { ' ', '.', ',' }, StringSplitOptions.RemoveEmptyEntries);
string newText = string.Concat(wordList.Where((word, count) => count >= firstWord - 1 && count < lastWord).Select(w => w + " ")).TrimEnd();
Clipboard.SetText(newText);
textBox2.Text = Clipboard.GetText();
// Result: "name is not"
Edit: and without Clipboard you can use simply this Line
textBox2.Text = newText;

different format into one single line Interop.word

I've been trying to figure out how to insert 2 different formats into the same paragraph using interop.word in c# like this:
hello planet earth here's what I want to do

Assuming you have your document defined as oDoc, the following code should get you the desired result:
Word.Paragraph oPara = oDoc.Content.Paragraphs.Add(ref oMissing);
oPara.Range.Text = "hello planet earth here's what I want to do";
object oStart = oPara.Range.Start + 13;
object oEnd = oPara.Range.Start + 18;
Word.Range rBold = oDoc.Range(ref oStart, ref oEnd);
rBold.Bold = 1;

I had to modify Dennis' answer a little to get it to work for me.
What I'm doing it totally automated, so I have to only work with variables.
private void InsertMultiFormatParagraph(string text, int size, int spaceAfter = 10) {
var para = docWord.Content.Paragraphs.Add(ref objMissing);
para.Range.Text = text;
// Explicitly set this to "not bold"
para.Range.Font.Bold = 0;
para.Range.Font.Size = size;
para.Format.SpaceAfter = spaceAfter;
var start = para.Range.Start;
var end = para.Range.Start + text.IndexOf(":");
var rngBold = docWord.Range(ref objStart, ref objEnd);
rngBold.Bold = 1;
para.Range.InsertParagraphAfter();
}
The main difference that made me want to make this post was that the Paragraph should be inserted AFTER the font is changed. My initial thought was to insert it after setting the SpaceAfter property, but then the objStart and objEnd values were tossing "OutOfRange" Exceptions. It was a little counter-intuitive, so I wanted to make sure everyone knew.

The following code seemed to work the best for me when formatting a particular selection within a paragraph. Using Word's built in "find" function to make a selection, then formatting only the selected text. This approach would only work well if the text to select is a unique string within the selection. But for most situations I have run across, this seems to work.
oWord.Selection.Find.Text = Variable_Containing_Text_to_Select; // sets the variable for find and select
oWord.Selection.Find.Execute(); // Executes find and select
oWord.Selection.Font.Bold = 1; // Modifies selection
oWord.Selection.Collapse(); // Clears selection
Hope this helps someone!

I know this post is old, but it came out in almost all my searches. The answer below is in case someone, like me, wants to do this for more than one word in a sentence. In this case, I loop through a string array of variables that contain strings and change that text to bold--modifing #joshman1019
string[] makeBold = new string[4] {a, b, c, d};
foreach (string s in makeBold)
{
wApp.Selection.Find.Text = s; //changes with each iteration
wApp.Selection.Find.Execute();
wApp.Selection.Font.Bold = 1;
wApp.Selection.Collapse(); //used to 'clear' the selection
wApp.Selection.Find.ClearFormatting();
}
So, each string represented by the variable will be bold. So if a = "hello world", then Hello World is made bold in the Word doc. Hope it saves someone some time.

I know this is an old thread, but I thought I'd post here anyway for those that come across it via Google (like I did). I got most of the way to a solution with krillgar's approach, but I had trouble because some of my text contains newlines. Accordingly, this modification worked best for me:
private void WriteText(string text)
{
var para = doc.Content.Paragraphs.Add();
var start = para.Range.Start;
var end = para.Range.Start + text.IndexOf(":");
para.Range.Text = text;
para.Range.Font.Bold = 0;
para.Range.InsertParagraphAfter();
if(text.Contains(":")){
var rngBold = doc.Range(start, end);
rngBold.Bold = 1;
}
}
The key difference is that I calculate start and end earlier in the function. I can't quite put my finger on it, but I think if your new text has newlines in it, the later calculation of start/end messes something up.
And obviously my solution is intended for text with the format:
Label: Data
where Label is to be bolded.

Consider usage of Range.Collapse eventually with Microsoft.Office.Interop.Word.WdCollapseDirection.wdCollapseEnd as parameter.
That would allow next text to have formatting different than previous text (and next text formatting will not affect formatting of previous one).

winforms big paragraph tooltip

I'm trying to display a paragraph in a tooltip when I hover a certain picture box. The problem is, the tooltip takes that paragraph, and spans it on one line, all across my screen. How can I make it so that it takes a smaller, more readable area?
or, maybe you have another technique to achieve the same thing, but without the tooltip function?

Add line breaks to your string.
string tooltip = string.Format("Here is a lot of text that I want{0}to display on multiple{0}lines.", Environment.NewLine);

You don't need to use code to include \r\n characters.
If you click on the dropdown arrow to the right of the ToolTip property value, it displays a multiline edit box.
Just press Enter to create a new line.

Here's something you can use:
private const int maximumSingleLineTooltipLength = 20;
private static string AddNewLinesForTooltip(string text)
{
if (text.Length < maximumSingleLineTooltipLength)
return text;
int lineLength = (int)Math.Sqrt((double)text.Length) * 2;
StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
int currentLinePosition = 0;
for (int textIndex = 0; textIndex < text.Length; textIndex++)
{
// If we have reached the target line length and the next
// character is whitespace then begin a new line.
if (currentLinePosition >= lineLength &&
char.IsWhiteSpace(text[textIndex]))
{
sb.Append(Environment.NewLine);
currentLinePosition = 0;
}
// If we have just started a new line, skip all the whitespace.
if (currentLinePosition == 0)
while (textIndex < text.Length && char.IsWhiteSpace(text[textIndex]))
textIndex++;
// Append the next character.
if (textIndex < text.Length)
sb.Append(text[textIndex]);
currentLinePosition++;
}
return sb.ToString();
}

Have you tried inserting newlines \n into the tooltip, to get it to span multiple lines?

You can't add the \r\n in the tooltip property of the control. It simply doesn't work. To resolve you issue, simply add the tooltip in the code itself typically in the InitializeComponent method.
I.E.: (c#, winform example)
this.mToolTip.SetToolTip(this.tbxControl,
"This is the first line of the tooltip.\r\n" +
"This is the second line of the tooltip.");

Using new line worked for me
System.Environment.NewLine

If you enter a tool tip in the DataGridView properties control for columns, and I suspect other WinForms control designers, and include a "\r\n" in the tool tip, you will see "\\r\\n" in the tool tip that is displayed when you run the code. This is because the tool tip property is already a string, and the designer interprets the code from the tool tip entered in the properties window as "\\r\\n". You can go to the .Designer.cs file, manually edit the file, and replace "\\r\\n" with "\r\n". You will then see the tool tip with the line break when the application runs. If you go back and look at the value of the tool tip in the designer, you will see the tool tip without the line break, but it will be there, and will not be re-transformed to "\\r\\n" by the designer. Despite a comment made earlier, you only need the "\n". The "\r" is not necessary.

Adding Control based on info in txt file

Following code, credit: Guffa.
Hello All,
I'm trying to add controls to a Form at runtime based on the information found in a Plain Text File. The structure? of the text file is always the same, and will not change. Example:
File.txt:
Label
"This is a label"
320, 240
Explanation:
Control
Text
Location
The following code, provided to me by Guffa, doesn't cause any errors or anything, but at the same time, nothing happens at all. And I'm not sure why... Can somebody please explain why the label doesn't get created and added to the form with the right info attached to it?
MatchCollection lines = Regex.Matches(File.ReadAllText(fileName), #"(.+?)\r\n""([^""]+)""\r\n(\d+), (\d+)\r\n");
foreach (Match match in lines) {
string control = match.Groups[1].Value;
string text = match.Groups[2].Value;
int x = Int32.Parse(match.Groups[3].Value);
int y = Int32.Parse(match.Groups[4].Value);
Console.WriteLine("{0}, \"{1}\", {2}, {3}", control, text, x, y);
if(control == "Label")
{
Label label = new Label();
label.Text = text;
canvas.Controls.Add(label); // canvas is a Panel Control.
label.Location = new Point(x, y);
}
}
I hope that I have clearly explained my situation. Any help at all would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks for taking the time to read.
jase

My guess is that your file doesn't have quite the right format. If you step into the code, does it match anything?
If so, what gets printed to the console?
Have you tried it with the exact sample shown in the question? While I haven't tried it in a form, I've tried the rest of the code above with the sample file, and it works fine.
Personally I don't think I'd use a regex to match all of the lines like this - it makes it harder to diagnose issues - but it should work okay if the file is correct. You say you don't understand the regex provided - that's another good reason not to use it, to be honest. Even if it's entirely correct, it's not a good idea to use code that you don't understand - you won't be able to maintain it.
I would personally just read the lines three at a time and then deal with them that way. Something like this:
private static readonly Regex LocationPattern = new Regex(#"^(\d+), (\d+)$");
...
using (TextReader reader = File.OpenText(filename))
{
while (true)
{
string control = reader.ReadLine();
string text = reader.ReadLine();
string location = reader.ReadLine();
if (control == null)
{
break;
}
if (text == null || location == null)
{
// Or however you want to handle this...
throw new InvalidConfigurationFileException
("Incorrect number of lines");
}
if (text.Length < 2 || !text.StartsWith("\"") || !text.EndsWith("\""))
{
// Or however you want to handle this...
throw new InvalidConfigurationFileException
("Text is not in quotes");
}
text = text.Substring(1, text.Length - 2);
Match locationMatch = LocationPattern.Match(location);
if (!locationMatch.Success)
{
// Or however you want to handle this...
throw new InvalidConfigurationFileException
("Invalid location: " + location);
}
// You could use int.TryParse if you want to handle this differently
Point parsedLocation = new Point(int.Parse(match.Groups[1].Value),
int.Parse(match.Groups[2].Value));
// Now the rest of the code before
}
}
As you can tell, it's a lot more code - but each part of it is relatively simple. Regular expressions are powerful if you're happy to handle them, but unless something is complicated to express "longhand" I often find it easier to maintain the longer way. Just a personal preference though.

Blind guess: I see the last \r\n in the regex is not optional. Possible that your input file is missing a return character after the last line?
Additional note about sucking at regular expressions: there are some tools that will help you experiment with regular expressions, which might be useful, for example, to understand what's going on in this particular case. I always use Expresso, which among other things analyzes the structure of the regular expression you provide and explains what it does.

Another possibility is that you forgot to add canvas (Panel control) to another control so the chain of controls inside canvas is not displayed and you would maybe not see that the canvas itself doesn't display. Which guess is the best? :-)