Traveling off the beaten paths, dictionaries of exotic languages, missions, Camino de Santiago ... a random list of things you will find on my website. If you are planning to (or you did) travel to Madagascar, South Pacific, especially Wallis, Futuna or Vanuatu, or you want to walk to Santiago, you are welcome to write me. I will be happy to exchange experience with you.

Dominik Maximilián Ramík

Latest news

New travel videos

2014-08-29 in Various

In spite of our "jungle ISP" I managed to upload a series of my travel videos from the last and this year. Have a look on:

New prayers recordings

2014-07-31 in Various

Major update on my project of recording prayers in different languages. Now 37 languages are present: see the page.

WinForms RichTextBox with paragraph spacing in C#

2014-05-30 in Various

While working on a software project for Collège technique et Lycée de Lowanatom, I have found I needed a RichTextBox in C# WinForms, that is capable of paragraph spacing. Sadly all the forums I visited were saying it is "impossible" or "too difficult". Well ... it appears, that there is a lot of hidden capabilities, that RichTextBox does not expose. After some fiddling, I have ended with a viable solution, which appears to be very simple. The complete custom control code is below. Enjoy and happy coding!

Tip: in order to make the spaces really visible, you will need to set values in orders of hundreds, e.g. 250.

The following links may be of interest:


using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Runtime.InteropServices;
using System.Text;
using System.Threading.Tasks;
using System.Windows.Forms;

namespace Exerc
{
    class RichTextBoxWithParagraphSpacing : RichTextBox
    {
        private const int PFM_SPACEBEFORE = 64;
        private const int PFM_SPACEAFTER = 128;
        private const int EM_SETPARAFORMAT = 1095;
        private const int SCF_SELECTION = 1;

        public int SelectionParagraphSpacingAfter
        {
            set
            {
                PARAFORMAT fmt = new PARAFORMAT();
                fmt.cbSize = Marshal.SizeOf(fmt);
                fmt.dwMask = PFM_SPACEAFTER;
                fmt.dySpaceAfter = value;
                SendMessage(new HandleRef(this, this.Handle),
                             EM_SETPARAFORMAT,
                             SCF_SELECTION,
                             ref fmt
                           );
            }
        }

        public int SelectionParagraphSpacingBefore
        {
            set
            {
                PARAFORMAT fmt = new PARAFORMAT();
                fmt.cbSize = Marshal.SizeOf(fmt);
                fmt.dwMask = PFM_SPACEBEFORE;
                fmt.dySpaceBefore = value;
                SendMessage(new HandleRef(this, this.Handle),
                             EM_SETPARAFORMAT,
                             SCF_SELECTION,
                             ref fmt
                           );
            }
        }

        [StructLayout(LayoutKind.Sequential)]
        private struct PARAFORMAT
        {
            public int cbSize;
            public uint dwMask;
            public short wNumbering;
            public short wReserved;
            public int dxStartIndent;
            public int dxRightIndent;
            public int dxOffset;
            public short wAlignment;
            public short cTabCount;
            [MarshalAs(UnmanagedType.ByValArray, SizeConst = 32)]
            public int[] rgxTabs;

            // PARAFORMAT2 from here onwards.
            public int dySpaceBefore;
            public int dySpaceAfter;
            public int dyLineSpacing;
            public short sStyle;
            public byte bLineSpacingRule;
            public byte bOutlineLevel;
            public short wShadingWeight;
            public short wShadingStyle;
            public short wNumberingStart;
            public short wNumberingStyle;
            public short wNumberingTab;
            public short wBorderSpace;
            public short wBorderWidth;
            public short wBorders;
        }

        [DllImport("user32", CharSet = CharSet.Auto)]
        private static extern int SendMessage(HandleRef hWnd,
                                               int msg,
                                               int wParam,
                                               ref PARAFORMAT lp);
    }

}

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