Rich text in memo field

[Rob Rutherford]

Win XP Home, Access 2002. I'd like to store rich text in a memo field that I can edit using a rich text box on a form.

a) I've tried using the Microsoft Rich Textbox Control 6.0 but can't find a way of applying formatting such a bold, italic,
underlining and so on to the text.

b) If I can't find out how to do a), then I may try writing an ActiveX control in VB6 provided I can find out how to expose a
property that could be used to bind the control to a memo field. I created a simple control in VB6 with data binding properties and
placed it on an Access form but the data binding properties did not seem to be available.

Any advice on a) or whether b) is possible and how to find out more (or any other possible approaches) would be appreciated.

 

[Stephen Lebans]

See:
http://www.lebans.com/richtext.htm
RTF2 control is an ActiveX RTF solution written in VC++. The RTF2
control is a complete editing/printing solution for Access 97 or higher.
Autosizing of the RTF2 control is supported for A2K or higher. This is a
full automatic install package. This install package contains 3 required
files for the control to function. The OCX itself, RTF2.OCX and the 2 VC
runtime files, Mfc42.Dll and Msvcrt.Dll. AFAIK the two VC runtime files
will already exist on all installs of Windows.


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Win XP Home, Access 2002. I'd like to store rich text in a memo field

that I can edit using a rich text box on a form.

a) I've tried using the Microsoft Rich Textbox Control 6.0 but can't

find a way of applying formatting such a bold, italic,

underlining and so on to the text.

b) If I can't find out how to do a), then I may try writing an ActiveX

control in VB6 provided I can find out how to expose a

property that could be used to bind the control to a memo field. I

created a simple control in VB6 with data binding properties and

placed it on an Access form but the data binding properties did not seem to be available.

Any advice on a) or whether b) is possible and how to find out more

(or any other possible approaches) would be appreciated.

 

[Rob Rutherford]

Thanks Stephen. I've downloaded the control and had a go with it and it looks excellent. Keep up the good work!

Regards,
Rob Rutherford

 

[PC User]

Here's a couple of A2K links that might help you.

http://www.access-programmers.co.uk/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=5545

http://www.dbforums.com/t997217.html

 

[Rob Rutherford]

Yes they were interesting. Thanks.