In my application's form, I have two RichTextBox
objects. They will both always have the same number of lines of text. I would like to "synchronize" the vertical scrolling between these two, so that when the user changes the vertical scroll position on one, the other scrolls the same amount. How might I go about doing this?
Thanks Jay for your answer; after some more searching I also found the method described here. I'll outline it below for anyone else interested.
First, declare the following enums:
public enum ScrollBarType : uint {
SbHorz = 0,
SbVert = 1,
SbCtl = 2,
SbBoth = 3
}
public enum Message : uint {
WM_VSCROLL = 0x0115
}
public enum ScrollBarCommands : uint {
SB_THUMBPOSITION = 4
}
Next, add external references to GetScrollPos
and SendMessage
.
[DllImport( "User32.dll" )]
public extern static int GetScrollPos( IntPtr hWnd, int nBar );
[DllImport( "User32.dll" )]
public extern static int SendMessage( IntPtr hWnd, uint msg, IntPtr wParam, IntPtr lParam );
Finally, add an event handler for the VScroll
event of the appropriate RichTextBox
:
private void myRichTextBox1_VScroll( object sender, EventArgs e )
{
int nPos = GetScrollPos( richTextBox1.Handle, (int)ScrollBarType.SbVert );
nPos <<= 16;
uint wParam = (uint)ScrollBarCommands.SB_THUMBPOSITION | (uint)nPos;
SendMessage( richTextBox2.Handle, (int)Message.WM_VSCROLL, new IntPtr( wParam ), new IntPtr( 0 ) );
}
In this case, richTextBox2
's vertical scroll position will be synchronized with richTextBox1
.