Disabling Smooth Scrolling on Richtextbox

Question

I have a label which labels the line numbers based on the text on RichTextBox. I have hooked the event of Vscroll to handle the labeling.

private void rtbLogicCode_VScroll(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
    Point pt = new Point(0, 1);
    int firstIndex = rtbLogicCode.GetCharIndexFromPosition(pt);
    int firstLine = rtbLogicCode.GetLineFromCharIndex(firstIndex);

    pt.X = ClientRectangle.Width;
    pt.Y = ClientRectangle.Height;
    int lastIndex = rtbLogicCode.GetCharIndexFromPosition(pt);
    int lastLine = rtbLogicCode.GetLineFromCharIndex(lastIndex);

    // Small correction
    if (rtbLogicCode.Text.EndsWith("\n"))
        lastLine++;

    labelLogicCode.ResetText();
    LabelLineNum(firstLine+1,lastLine);
}
#endregion

private void LabelLineNum(int startNum, int lastNum)
{
    labelLogicCode.Font = UIConstant.DDCLogicCodeFont;
    for (int i = startNum; i < lastNum; i++)
    {
        labelLogicCode.Text += i + Environment.NewLine;
    }
}

Everything seems to work properly except RichTextBox uses Smooth Scrolling feature, which screws up my line numbering in many cases where the user has not scrolled all the way to the next line. This causes the line numbers to be not synchronized with the actual text shown on the RichTextBox.

In the end, I need to disable smoothscrolling feature to accomplish this. I was told that you can override the postMessage API of RichTextBox to disable the mentioned feature but after searching through many documents, I couldn't find any good ones.

I would appreciate a solution that is as detailed as possible on how to disable smoothscrolling feature. Thanks.

Answer 1

Here's a VB example from Microsoft, suggesting you need to intercept WM_MOUSEWHEEL messages.

Here's a quick prototype in C#:

class MyRichTextBox : RichTextBox {

    [DllImport("user32.dll")]
    public static extern IntPtr SendMessage(
          IntPtr hWnd,      // handle to destination window
          uint Msg,       // message
          IntPtr wParam,  // first message parameter
          IntPtr lParam   // second message parameter
    );

    const uint WM_MOUSEWHEEL = 0x20A;
    const uint WM_VSCROLL = 0x115;
    const uint SB_LINEUP = 0;
    const uint SB_LINEDOWN = 1;
    const uint SB_THUMBTRACK = 5;

    private void Intercept(ref Message m) {
        int delta = (int)m.WParam >> 16 & 0xFF;
        if((delta >> 7) == 1) {
            SendMessage(m.HWnd, WM_VSCROLL, (IntPtr)SB_LINEDOWN, (IntPtr)0);
        } else {
            SendMessage(m.HWnd, WM_VSCROLL, (IntPtr)SB_LINEUP, (IntPtr)0);
        }
    }

    protected override void WndProc(ref Message m) {
        switch((uint)m.Msg) {
            case WM_MOUSEWHEEL:
                Intercept(ref m);
                break;
            case WM_VSCROLL:
                if(((uint)m.WParam & 0xFF) == SB_THUMBTRACK) {
                    Intercept(ref m);
                } else {
                    base.WndProc(ref m);
                }
                break;
            default:
                base.WndProc(ref m);
                break;
        }
    }
}

Answer 2

I know this is old, but if Dan Sporici's site ever goes down I thought I post his fantastic solution. It's simple and works easily with just a copy & paste.

class editedRichTextBox : RichTextBox
{
    [DllImport("user32.dll", CharSet = CharSet.Auto)]
    private static extern int SendMessage(IntPtr hWnd, int wMsg, IntPtr wParam, IntPtr lParam);

    //this message is sent to the control when we scroll using the mouse
    private const int WM_MOUSEWHEEL = 0x20A;

    //and this one issues the control to perform scrolling
    private const int WM_VSCROLL = 0x115;

    protected override void WndProc(ref Message m)
    {
        if (m.Msg == WM_MOUSEWHEEL)
        {
            int scrollLines = SystemInformation.MouseWheelScrollLines;
            for (int i = 0; i < scrollLines; i++)
            {
                if ((int)m.WParam > 0) // when wParam is greater than 0
                    SendMessage(this.Handle, WM_VSCROLL, (IntPtr)0, IntPtr.Zero); // scroll up 
                else  
                    SendMessage(this.Handle, WM_VSCROLL, (IntPtr)1, IntPtr.Zero); // else scroll down
            }
            return;
        }
        base.WndProc(ref m);
    }
}