How to make bold and italic font style of selected text in richtextbox at run time..

Question

Hi.. I am working on richtextbox now I want to chang font style at run time by using shortcut key like ctrl+b.. How it is possible..? any body help please

Kanhialal kk · Answer

Hi.. sir I have retrieved items in comboxbox from database like this... SELECT UPPER(item_Name) as Item_Name FROM New_Item_ForShop order by Item_Name asc now I want to select the data as Alphabetically I mean if I press G in keyboard than select the series of G in combox.. thanks for helping almost... Kindly further help

Frogleg · Answer

Try this public partial class Form1 : Form { Font myFont = new Font(Arial 16FontStyle.Italic); public Form1() { InitializeComponent(); } private void Form1_Load(object sender EventArgs e) { this.KeyPreview = true; } private void Form1_KeyDown(object sender KeyEventArgs e) { if (e.Modifiers== Keys.Control && e.KeyCode== Keys.B) { richTextBox1.SelectionFont = myFont; } } private void bttnLoad_Click(object sender EventArgs e) { richTextBox1.LoadFile(test.rtf); } private void bttnSaveToFile_Click(object sender EventArgs e) { richTextBox1.SaveFile(test.rtf); } private void bttnSaveToDatabase_Click(object sender EventArgs e) { string rtfStr = this.richTextBox1.Rtf;//text only //save to database }

Kanhialal kk · Answer

Thanks.. Working properly as required. but now I want to save in database as some portion is bold and some regular format.. kindly help.

Frogleg · Answer

Try this public partial class Form1 : Form { Font myFont = new Font(Arial 16FontStyle.Italic); public Form1() { InitializeComponent(); } private void Form1_Load(object sender EventArgs e) { this.KeyPreview = true; } private void Form1_KeyDown(object sender KeyEventArgs e) { if (e.Modifiers== Keys.Control && e.KeyCode== Keys.B) { richTextBox1.SelectionFont = myFont; } } }