>I have a Form with a Pageframe that contains a RichText Control. The user can either type in text or paste graphics into this control.
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>Now the users want me to provide a set of optional symbols or special characters to use in the control.
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>My idea is to have another control containing the special characters as labels. When clicked the selected character would be inserted or appended to the current string in the control.
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>Can this be done, making sure the selected symbol gets in the right place within the text?

In addition to what Sergey said, if the symbols aren't to be found in the current font of the RTF box, you may need to play with ortf.selFontName and other .sel* properties.