>Hi,
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>I have a window/form that has many check boxes. Each check box has a caption. I want to add a text box at the top of the form so that the user can search for any check box caption which contains the entered text. For example, when a user enters "fox", a method of the form will scan all check boxes and check if the caption has the word "fox." So far, it is all fairly easy to do.
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>But then I want the substring of the caption to change the color (or make it bold). For example, if a check box has a caption
>"Visual FoxPro" I want the word/substring "Fox" to be highlighted by a color or make it bold.
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>Is this possible? And if yes, how? TIA

Since you can't set color (forecolor or backcolor) for individual characters in a control, this will be hard. You could do something by dynamically overlaying controls that are appropriately colored, but there'll be a lot of overhead when it runs (assuming you're applying this to a bunch of controls).

I wonder whether simply doing something with SelStart and SelLength would accomplish your goals at a lower cost.

Tamar