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Superscripts / Subscripts in VB Labels/Textbox

With a sciebtific VB project I need to use super/sub scripts and othe scientific notation in both labels and text boxes user entries eg H20 or 3 squared or cubed or 10 to the power of 6 as well as Degrees etc

Dr. Kamal Mehdi

Unfortunately, VB controls that have a Font property does not allow you to set the font as Superscript or Subscript.
A possible solution is that you print every character the user enters in a text box, you print it on a picture box with the appropriate font size and position. This however involves a lot of work in code to take into consideration the cases where the user deletes a character after typing it, etc.

Regards

alexa102398

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Thanks Ka,a;;
Nothing wrong with the answer and it clarifies our thoughts but would like to know if there is any other alternative to that suggested by kamall

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ameba

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ameba

I know this will not work for all containers.
For textboxes you must use RichTextBox.

alexa102398

ASKER

I think this might now give us a solution to the problem.
Thanks

ameba

You will have to check also:
ctl.Container.Visible=True ' this will allow using tabstrip control
You can also add a little colour (e.g. blue for superscript, red for subscript)
Just set "ctl.Container.ForeColor" at 3 places.