How can I get the border styles of a Text Box and Rich Text Box to Match

[Christian Blackburn]

Hi Gang,

I'm using VB 2005 so if you don't have that then you might skip this
issue. I need to get a rich text box and a regular text box's border
styles to match. For further explanation please see the screenshot.
http://christianblackburn.com/misc/Find Files Text Boxes Don't Match.png

Thanks,
Christian Blackburn

 

[Joergen Bech]

Don't have an answer for you, but perhaps you could
wrap it in a usercontrol where you control the look of
the border? Perhaps with the use of the ControlPaint class.
Not sure if the methods on the ControlPaint class are
themed and will give you what you want for free.

Perhaps you'll have a better chance getting an answer
to this question in the
microsoft.public.dotnet.framework.windowsforms.controls newsgroup?

/Joergen Bech

 

[Christian Blackburn]

Hi Joergen,

Thanks for the alternate newsgroup tip. I'll have to drop them a line
if I can't figure this out. I think I need to stop being such a wimp,
open up that bloated XML code and add or subtract code as necessary.

Thanks,
Christian Blackburn

 

[Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]]

Christian,

I'm using VB 2005 so if you don't have that then you might skip this
issue. I need to get a rich text box and a regular text box's border
styles to match. For further explanation please see the screenshot.
http://christianblackburn.com/misc/Find Files Text Boxes Don't Match.png

I have spent some hours and came up with this solution:

<URL:http://dotnet.mvps.org/dotnet/samples/controls/ThemedRichTextBox.zip>