Text input issues with Visual Basic

Question

Ok, I'm writing a program in vb. It's simply a text editor. However i've run into a little snag. My program has options to click a button and text is inserted into the text box. I am using this line:

textbox.AppendText (sometext)

Now this code works great if i want the text to be added at the bottom of the page. So here's my question, is there any way to modify or maybe replace this code so that the text is inserted were the cursor is?

Answer 1

Try setting .SelectedText property or using .Paste(String).

Answer 2

Not through the textbox control itself, as far as I know. You will need to use the SelectionStart property to manually insert the text.

textBox1.Text = textBox1.Text.Substring(0, textBox1.SelectionStart) & "INSERTEDTEXT" & textBox1.Text.Substring(textBox1.SelectionStart)

This is assuming you want to insert the text and not just replace it.