[EO] Rich text News

[mitlark]

Well, I wanted to make some contribution to the community, so I thought about this. It's a very simple and not useful modification to the vanilla news. So here it goes.
And everything is client-sided, so feel free of worries, your game will work even if you fail (that's petty impossible with this stuff).

So, let's start.

CLIENT-SIDE

*-First, you can either delete, hide, eat, whatever, the lblNews. You will not need it, or if you want you can use it as a title or something (but you can also insert that title in the rich textbox).

1-Make a RichTextBox object, place it inside of the picMain picturebox. Make it the size you want, the reason of this is to get it larger, but if all you want is format, feel free to do it normal size.

2-Now, name the richtextbox… mmm let's say _'txtNews'_ (without quotes). You can also set a background color, and if you don't like it, remove the borders. For that stuff revise and adjust properly the Appearance, BackColor and BorderStyle properties.

3-There's the textbox, now to the code! We will now change a little things there.
Search in the frmMenu the following:
```
' load news
    Open App.Path & "\data files\news.txt" For Input As #1
        Line Input #1, tmpTxt
    Close #1
    ' split breaks
    tmpArray() = Split(tmpTxt, "
")
    lblNews.Caption = vbNullString
    For I = 0 To UBound(tmpArray)
      lblNews.Caption = lblNews.Caption & tmpArray(I) & vbNewLine
    Next
```You know what? Erase it all. Yes, don't worry, trust me, it will not be used.

4-And now replace it with
```
txtNews.LoadFile App.Path & "\data files\news.rtf", rtfRTF
```
And that's it. Now, just remember to create a rtf file named _'news'_. You can create rtf files with either MSWord, WordPad, OpenOfficeWriter, whatever. Any word processor will do it (not sure if WordPerfect would).
(By now, I think that the news files are updated only when you update the client itself, like using some auto-updater or something, so take it in consideration when "composing" your honourable and very well presented news)

–~~--
As for screenshots, well, just imagine a RTF file instead of plain text.

Thanks for your time,
L'ark Mitsinikos

[iSKweek]

I like it. A nice simple update that adds some colour (or whatever) to the news. Good job :D

[mitlark]

I forgot something. You can also use SamuGames' transparent chatbox tutorial to make the RichTextbox… transparent. That is if that plain background color mess up your stylish GUI.

[The link to Samu's tutorial](http://www.touchofdeathforums.com/smf/index.php/topic,68816.0.html)

Well, that's it,
L'ark Mitsinikos

[Ne-o-x]

Well not sure why but when I do it on EO the RTF Box is not showing…. Also I have did it in a new Stand Alone Exe and all is working fine >.<
So confused....

Note:
You should add a ReadOnly tag ;)
So players cant edit the news.