Help Editor in VB

[xolara]

Okay it might be abit tricky but you will have to make a new class file either inside your current program or in a new dll file

but here is the code ive come up with and it works fine <!-- s --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_e_smile.gif" alt="" title="Smile" /><!-- s -->

Code:

Imports System.Drawing
Public Class SnX
    Inherits System.Windows.Forms.RichTextBox

    Private Declare Function SendMessage Lib "user32" Alias "SendMessageA" _
       (ByVal hWnd As IntPtr, ByVal wMsg As Integer, ByVal wParam As Integer, ByVal lParam As Integer) As Integer





    Private Declare Function LockWindowUpdate Lib "user32" (ByVal hWnd As Integer) As Integer

    Private _SyntaxHighlight_CaseSensitive As Boolean = False

    Private Words As New DataTable

    Private Enum EditMessages
        LineIndex = 187
        LineFromChar = 201
        GetFirstVisibleLine = 206
        CharFromPos = 215
        PosFromChar = 1062
    End Enum



    Protected Overrides Sub OnTextChanged(ByVal e As System.EventArgs)
        ColorVisibleLines()
    End Sub



    Public Sub ColorRtb()
        Dim FirstVisibleChar As Integer
        Dim i As Integer = 0

        While i < Me.Lines.Length
            FirstVisibleChar = GetCharFromLineIndex(i)
            ColorLineNumber(i, FirstVisibleChar)
            i += 1
        End While
    End Sub



    Public Sub ColorVisibleLines()
        Dim FirstLine As Integer = FirstVisibleLine()
        Dim LastLine As Integer = LastVisibleLine()
        Dim FirstVisibleChar As Integer

        If (FirstLine = 0) And (LastLine = 0) Then
            Exit Sub
        Else
            While FirstLine < LastLine
                FirstVisibleChar = GetCharFromLineIndex(FirstLine)
                ColorLineNumber(FirstLine, FirstVisibleChar)
                FirstLine += 1
            End While
        End If

    End Sub



    Public Sub ColorLineNumber(ByVal LineIndex As Integer, ByVal lStart As Integer)
        Dim i As Integer = 0
        Dim Instance As Integer
        Dim LeadingChar, TrailingChar As String
        Dim SelectionAt As Integer = Me.SelectionStart
        Dim MyRow As DataRow
        Dim Line() As String, MyI As Integer, MyStr As String

        ' Lock the update
        LockWindowUpdate(Me.Handle.ToInt32)

        MyI = lStart

        If CaseSensitive Then
            Line = Split(Me.Lines(LineIndex).ToString, " ")
        Else
            Line = Split(Me.Lines(LineIndex).ToLower, " ")
        End If

        For Each MyStr In Line
            Me.SelectionStart = MyI
            Me.SelectionLength = MyStr.Length

            If Words.Rows.Contains(MyStr) Then
                MyRow = Words.Rows.Find(MyStr)
                If (Not CaseSensitive) Or (CaseSensitive And MyRow("Word") = MyStr) Then
                    Me.SelectionColor = Color.FromName(MyRow("Color"))
                End If
            Else
                Me.SelectionColor = Color.Black
            End If

            MyI += MyStr.Length + 1
        Next

        ' Restore the selectionstart
        Me.SelectionStart = SelectionAt
        Me.SelectionLength = 0
        Me.SelectionColor = Color.Black

        ' Unlock the update
        LockWindowUpdate(0)
    End Sub



    Public Function GetCharFromLineIndex(ByVal LineIndex As Integer) As Integer
        Return SendMessage(Me.Handle, EditMessages.LineIndex, LineIndex, 0)
    End Function



    Public Function FirstVisibleLine() As Integer
        Return SendMessage(Me.Handle, EditMessages.GetFirstVisibleLine, 0, 0)
    End Function



    Public Function LastVisibleLine() As Integer
        Dim LastLine As Integer = FirstVisibleLine() + (Me.Height / Me.Font.Height)

        If LastLine > Me.Lines.Length Or LastLine = 0 Then
            LastLine = Me.Lines.Length
        End If

        Return LastLine
    End Function



    Public Sub New()
        Dim MyRow As DataRow
        Dim arrKeyWords() As String, strKW As String

        Me.AcceptsTab = True

        ''Load all the keywords and the colors to make them
        Words.Columns.Add("Word")
        Words.PrimaryKey = New DataColumn() {Words.Columns(0)}
        Words.Columns.Add("Color")

        arrKeyWords = New String() {"select", "insert", "delete", _
           "truncate", "from", "where", "into", "inner", "update", _
           "outer", "on", "is", "declare", "set", "use", "values", "as", _
           "order", "by", "drop", "view", "go", "trigger", "cube", _
           "binary", "varbinary", "image", "char", "varchar", "text", _
           "datetime", "smalldatetime", "decimal", "numeric", "float", _
           "real", "bigint", "int", "smallint", "tinyint", "money", _
           "smallmoney", "bit", "cursor", "timestamp", "uniqueidentifier", _
           "sql_variant", "table", "nchar", "nvarchar", "ntext", "left", _
           "right", "like", "and", "all", "in", "null", "join", "not", "or"}

        For Each strKW In arrKeyWords
            MyRow = Words.NewRow()
            MyRow("Word") = strKW
            MyRow("Color") = Color.Blue.Name
            Words.Rows.Add(MyRow)
        Next

    End Sub



    Public Property CaseSensitive() As Boolean
        Get
            Return _SyntaxHighlight_CaseSensitive
        End Get
        Set(ByVal Value As Boolean)
            _SyntaxHighlight_CaseSensitive = Value
        End Set
    End Property