Question List control that allows font formatting for individual items

[ChuckPuckett]

I need a present a list of words that the user can multi-select from, and which I can also change the font color and background for individual words. This is for summary at the end of a round in a word game, and I want to give feedback as to which strings were illegal, which are duplicates, etc.

ListBox of course allows user multiselect, but I can't figure out how to hilite "bad" words.

Any suggestions?

 

[Skydiver]

Easiest would be to do things in the WPF list control, but with WinForms, you'll need to do owner drawn.

 

[jmcilhinney]

This is not a question about the VS IDE so it doesn't belong in a forum dedicated to that subject. Please post in the forum most applicable to the subject, not just the first one in the list. I will assume that you are talking about a WinForms app and move this thread to the Windows Forms forum. If that's not what you want, please specify and we'll move it again.

 

[jmcilhinney]

Assuming that it is a WinForms ListBox you're talking about, you would need to owner-draw, as previously mentioned. That means setting the DrawMode to (probably) OwnerDrawFixed and then handling the DrawItem event to draw each item in whatever way you want.