Is there a way to Zoom a Rich Textbox's contents in VB6?

Question

I am trying to zoom (resize) the contents of a rich text box in VB6 so that all the content is visible. (I zoom out until the scroll bars disapear).

Answer 1

No, but you might be able to simulate it by the following.

• create a large form and position if offscreen somewhere
• put your RichEdit (or a copy of it) onto this form
• size the RichEdit so that it can hold everything without scrollbars
• create a memory dc (CreateDC) and select a bitmap into it that's large enough to hold the contents of your RichEdit (CreateDIBSection)
• send the offscreen RichEdit a WM_PRINTCLIENT message containing the memory DC

• StretchBlt from the Memory DC to the screen where you want your zoomed view.

  (whew!)