How can i add a line of text to a multi-line TextBox
?
e.g. pseudocode;
textBox1.Clear();
textBox1.Lines.Add("1000+");
textBox1.Lines.Add("750-999");
textBox1.Lines.Add("400-749");
...snip...
textBox1.Lines.Add("40-59");
or
textBox1.Lines.Append("brown");
textBox1.Lines.Append("brwn");
textBox1.Lines.Append("brn");
textBox1.Lines.Append("brow");
textBox1.Lines.Append("br");
textBox1.Lines.Append("brw");
textBox1.Lines.Append("brwm");
textBox1.Lines.Append("bron");
textBox1.Lines.Append("bwn");
textBox1.Lines.Append("brnw");
textBox1.Lines.Append("bren");
textBox1.Lines.Append("broe");
textBox1.Lines.Append("bewn");
The only methods that TextBox.Lines implements (that i can see) are:
@Casperah pointed out that i'm thinking about it wrong. A TextBox
doesn't have lines, it has text. That text can be split on the CRLF into lines, if requested - but there is no notion of lines.
The question then is how to accomplish what i want, rather than what WinForms lets me.
Other given variants have a subtle bug:
textBox1.AppendText("Hello" + Environment.NewLine);
textBox1.AppendText("Hello" + "\r\n");
textBox1.Text += "Hello\r\n"
textbox1.Text += System.Environment.NewLine + "brown";
They either append or prepend a newline when one (might) not be required.
So, extension helper:
public static class WinFormsExtensions
{
public static void AppendLine(this TextBox source, string value)
{
if (source.Text.Length==0)
source.Text = value;
else
source.AppendText("\r\n"+value);
}
}
So now:
textBox1.Clear();
textBox1.AppendLine("red");
textBox1.AppendLine("green");
textBox1.AppendLine("blue");
and
textBox1.AppendLine(String.Format("Processing file {0}", filename));
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