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Adding the Picture Property to a RichTextBox control (VB6)

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Hi All,

Does anyone know how to add the Picture Property to a VB6 RichTextBox
control?

Before you point me to the code for making the RichTextBox
transparent, lol, I've done that...and it isn't working out according
to plan. See, there are some problems:

1.  Making the richtextbox transparent with either WS_EX_TRANSPARENT
or WS_EX_LAYERED results in the text typed into the RichTextBox being
written to the picturebox beneath it as well.  BUT... when the user
hits the BackSpace key, it deletes the text from the richtextbox, but
not the picturebox, and if the user then types more text, the result
is a jumbled mess of letters.

2. My app allows the user change the background color of a richtextbox
(or, in the case of a transparent one, the picturebox behind it). VB6
will neither allow me to change the value of the Constant expression
nor accept Picture1.BackColor as a valid argument.  I need to be able
to change the color value of WS_EX_TRANSPARENT to match the background
color of the picturebox because otherwise, if the initial backcolor
matches the WS_EX_TRANSPARENT color there is no problem, but if the
user then changes the background color of the picturebox, the result
is not only the aforementioned jumbled mess of letters, but also a
"caret" mark of the WS_EX_TRANSPARENT color after each and every
single typed character.

Which brings me back to my original question, lol: What code do I need
to add to the parent form's General Declarations, etc, to add the
Picture property to the richtextbox control and cause it to *properly*
handle all the relevant Methods and Events associated with it?  (I am
assuming, btw, that I will also need to add an Image property as well,
as PaintPicture needs it...)  LOL, I'm sure it's a crapload of code,
but at this point it's easier to put all that in manually rather than
rely on the transparent richtextbox, so that I can just use
LoadPicture to put a background image right in!

Thanks,
Jason

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Adding the Picture Property to a RichTextBox control (VB6) Jason Bodine <jbodine1974@gmail.com> - 2011-04-19 02:02 -0700
  Re: Adding the Picture Property to a RichTextBox control (VB6) Jason Bodine <jbodine1974@gmail.com> - 2011-04-23 05:04 -0700
    Re: Adding the Picture Property to a RichTextBox control (VB6) "Mayayana" <mayayana@invalid.nospam> - 2011-04-23 09:51 -0400
      Re: Adding the Picture Property to a RichTextBox control (VB6) Jason Bodine <jbodine1974@gmail.com> - 2011-04-23 11:52 -0700
        Re: Adding the Picture Property to a RichTextBox control (VB6) "Mayayana" <mayayana@invalid.nospam> - 2011-04-23 15:56 -0400
        Re: Adding the Picture Property to a RichTextBox control (VB6) "Mike Williams" <Mike@WhiskyAndCoke.com> - 2011-04-23 21:41 +0100
    Re: Adding the Picture Property to a RichTextBox control (VB6) "Mike Williams" <Mike@WhiskyAndCoke.com> - 2011-04-23 16:43 +0100

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