Find Functionality

Question

How can I add a control / menu / etc that enables find functionality?  I have a text box populated with the contents of a text file.  I'd like to give the user the ability to search that text box.

Answer 1

How did you want it to work? Just move the focus to the found text?

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Answer 2

Yes, highlighting would be great but isn't necessary.

Answer 3

This worked for me:

            string textToFind = "is";
            int findPosition = textBox2.Text.IndexOf(textToFind);
            textBox2.Focus();
            textBox2.SelectionStart = findPosition;
            textBox2.SelectionLength = textToFind.Length;

You would just need to set textToFind to whatever the user typed in.

Hope this helps.

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Answer 4

I have a menu strip to which I added 'Find'.  When I click 'find', I'd like to pop open an input box (which I'll use to set textToFind).  How can I pull that off?

Answer 5

You can make your own Search Form for that.

Anyways, you may want to add this de Deborah's answer:

textBox2.ScrollToCaret();

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Answer 6

Here is an example of an input box:

http://www.csharp-examples.net/inputbox/

Otherwise, you could just add a second TextBox to your form that displays the Text and have a Search button. Then it would look more like IE's search.

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