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I`m working in a serial terminal project developed in VB.NET.
I need to display a lot of formatted (color, font styles) text data in a read-only control (the incoming serial data).
I don`t know if it’s a good idea to use richtext control or a grid, or there’s a better third party control?
Thanks
I’ve used Scintilla.NET for this sort of thing before: http://scintillanet.codeplex.com/
It’s designed for use in text editors, but it can be made read-only, and it’s pretty quick even for large quantities of text. You get efficient per-character control over colours and basic text styling, though not to the same extent as the Rich Edit control.
Negative points are that it’s based on a control designed for use from C++ code, so there’s not much in the way of .NET-specific documentation. And the .NET code is in C#, so it’s probably best if you have a passing familiarity with that.