richtext in a datagrid?

8 Nov 2006 6:25 AM

Rerard

Hello. I need to be able to have a datagrid with richtext in a cell.
THen on top of that the text has to be formatable via buttons. What I
have been able to do is have a richtextbox with a word style toolbar
for formatting. And I have been able to get a datagrid so text from
word can be pasted into it with formatting. But I cant seem to get over
that last hump of being able to format/edit the text direclty in the
cell. Also for some reason after I paste formatted text into a cell,
when I click on something else the text will turn into plain
unformatted text. I am open to purchasing a third party datagrid as Iv
read that the one that comes with vb.net is not feature rich. I have
already tried several but just can't seem to get it quite right. The
closest I got was with rustemsofts datagridtexteditcolumn but I could
not get over the problem of formatted text morphing to plain text after
clicking away from the cell. Im getting pretty desperate here, any help
is appreciated.

8 Nov 2006 3:41 PM

David Wier

I'm assuming we're talking about ASP.Net here, since you said 'datagrid'
You can create an ItemTemplate for that field, and put in a RichTextBox
control. There are some on the market for sale, like the one at
http://richtextbox.com/
However, there is a free one also, at http://freetextbox.com
Just put one of those inside the template field and work with Rich text to
your heart's content

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"Rerard" <kjell_pin***@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> Hello. I need to be able to have a datagrid with richtext in a cell.
> THen on top of that the text has to be formatable via buttons. What I
> have been able to do is have a richtextbox with a word style toolbar
> for formatting. And I have been able to get a datagrid so text from
> word can be pasted into it with formatting. But I cant seem to get over
> that last hump of being able to format/edit the text direclty in the
> cell. Also for some reason after I paste formatted text into a cell,
> when I click on something else the text will turn into plain
> unformatted text. I am open to purchasing a third party datagrid as Iv
> read that the one that comes with vb.net is not feature rich. I have
> already tried several but just can't seem to get it quite right. The
> closest I got was with rustemsofts datagridtexteditcolumn but I could
> not get over the problem of formatted text morphing to plain text after
> clicking away from the cell. Im getting pretty desperate here, any help
> is appreciated.
>

17 Nov 2006 5:53 PM

Rerard

Those look like exactly what I need but unfortunately I am working in
vb.net, any ideas? Also I need to have the formatting toolbar stay in
one spot while the textbox itself moves around.