Highlighting text in Rich Text boxes (performance)

[nikolajp]

I have made a RichText-box and made a function to highlight text in certain ways (bold etc.).

So I can call this function with a text-variable and the function will higlight all instances of the text.

There is more to it, but that is the basic function.

I have a performance problem.

It seems evertime i call this (setting the text properties)

$oRP.SelStart = $markselstart - 1

$oRP.SelLength = $sizeof_searchtext

$oRP.SelFontSize = $size

to highlight, the text position is moved in the GUI to the place the text is.

And I do this for many instances of text, so the text GUI will moved up and down until it is finished.

This takes 1-4 seconds depending on how large the file is (and how many texts are to be highlighted).

I think the moving around is using ressources.

My question is -

Is there a faster way to make this highlighting?

Can I avoid the GUI moving the text-position when setting the text properties?

Here it is:

CODE

Func highlight_text_inRTbox($searchtext, $action, $size,$number)

$hitstring = $orp.text

;check if match is at the end of file. if so add a space so the highlighting can have an end point.

;if not every tekst following will be marked.

;sizeofhits-string

$sizeof_searchtext=stringlen($searchtext)

$string_in_end = StringRight($hitstring,$sizeof_searchtext)

if($sizeof_searchtext<>0 AND $string_in_end=$searchtext) Then $orp.text = $hitstring & " "

;Search the Text and put startcharacter in array

Dim $avArray[1]

_ArrayDelete($avArray,0)

Local $Counter = 0

While $counter < 1000

$Counter = $counter + 1

$result = StringInStr($hitstring, $searchtext,0,$counter)

If($result = 0) Then

_ArrayAdd($avArray,"end")

ExitLoop

Else

_ArrayAdd($avArray,$result)

Endif

Wend

;number of times to loop through (depending on size of array)

$loopingtimes=_ArraySize($avarray)-2

;mark the text from searchresults in array

$i = 1

While $i <= $loopingtimes

If($avArray[$i]="end") Then

ExitLoop

Else

$markselstart = $avarray[$i]

Endif

$oRP.SelStart = $markselstart - 1

$oRP.SelLength = $sizeof_searchtext

$oRP.SelFontSize = $size

if($action="colorredbold") Then

$oRP.SelBold = True

$oRP.SelColor=0x0000ff

EndIf

if($action="colorbluebold") Then

$oRP.SelBold = True

$oRP.SelColor=0xff0000

EndIf

if($action="bold") Then

$oRP.SelBold = True

EndIf

if($action="underline") Then

$oRP.SelUnderline = True

EndIf

$i=$i+1

WEnd

EndFunc

[nikolajp]

Anyone with experience in RichTextBox text highlighting?