How to make a word in a text modifiable(doubleClick, change color,..) in C#

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I have a problem, i have text stored in xml file formatting like this:

XML

<sentence>
    <token tag='man'>
        John
    </token>
    <token>
        is
    </token>
    <token>
        a doctor
    </token>
</sentence>
<sentence>
    <token tag='man'>
        He
    </token>
    <token>
        has
    </token>
    <token>
        a wife
    </token>
</sentence>
....

I want to show this text for User(on a TextBox, a Panel,...) ,and tokens which have tag='man'(in this case:John,He) have different color from the rest, plus, they can be Clicked (to show extra information,etc). It appears that in ToolBox there is not such a tool could do this. So I don't know how to solve it, does anybody have any suggestions?
Thanks for reading this!

Posted 27-Jun-12 0:21am

rongvangso7

Updated 27-Jun-12 4:47am

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Shahin Khorshidnia 27-Jun-12 6:59am

1. Please Tag your question WinForm? ASP.Net? WPF? ...
2. Seach the google. You need a Highlighter (I think)

rongvangso7 27-Jun-12 10:54am

thank Shahin, but with my problem I can't find a search term appropriately... :( do you have any advices??

Zoltán Zörgő 27-Jun-12 7:05am

I suppose you need something special. With asp.net it looks a little bit easier...

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 27-Jun-12 13:17pm

What is easier... it really depends.
--SA

Zoltán Zörgő 27-Jun-12 14:27pm

Sure, but DOM helps a lot in manipulating the UI; it is easier to combine controls as layout elements or change their look and feel as in windows forms. Of course, it has its own limitations... it really depends :)

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 29-Jun-12 18:47pm

When I said "it depends" I did not mean DOM; I referred to your "with ASP.NET" it looks a little bit easier. ASP.NET does not generally make anything easier (for example, when it comes to applications, it's actually usually much harder then desktops, because Web applications has to overcome draconian limitations of HTTP), but nevertheless I know some aspects or cases easier with Web applications, especially ASP.NET -- that's why I said "it depends".
--SA

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov · Answer 1 · 2012-06-27T05:58:00

Solution 1

You will need to develop you own control, for example, on the base of System.Windows.Forms.RichTextBox, please see:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.windows.forms.richtextbox.aspx[^].

—SA

Posted 27-Jun-12 5:58am

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov