How can I sync the scrolling of two multiline textboxes in C# (WinForms)?
When you scroll up/down a line in TextBox A, TextBox B should scroll up/down too. The same
Hans Passant's solution was awesome. However I needed to sync three text boxes not just two.
So I modified it a little - but all credence should go to Hans, there's no way I would have even got close without his work - I thought I would post it back here in case others need the same.
SyncBox class:
using System;
using System.Windows.Forms;
using System.Runtime.InteropServices;
class SyncTextBox : TextBox
{
public SyncTextBox()
{
this.Multiline = true;
this.ScrollBars = ScrollBars.Vertical;
}
public Control[] Buddies { get; set; }
private static bool scrolling; // In case buddy tries to scroll us
protected override void WndProc(ref Message m)
{
base.WndProc(ref m);
// Trap WM_VSCROLL message and pass to buddy
if (Buddies != null)
{
foreach (Control ctr in Buddies)
{
if (ctr != this)
{
if ((m.Msg == 0x115 || m.Msg == 0x20a) && !scrolling && ctr.IsHandleCreated)
{
scrolling = true;
SendMessage(ctr.Handle, m.Msg, m.WParam, m.LParam);
scrolling = false;
}
}
}
}
}
[DllImport("user32.dll", CharSet = CharSet.Auto)]
private static extern IntPtr SendMessage(IntPtr hWnd, int msg, IntPtr wp, IntPtr lp);
}
Then in the form initilizer:
// add the required controls into scroll sync
Control[] syncedCtrls = new Control[] { ctrl1, ctrl2, ..., ctrln };
foreach (SyncTextBox ctr in syncedCtrls)
{
ctr.Buddies = syncedCtrls;
}