How to use the Right-to-Left option? (For another language)

[Ashi_Mashi2]

Hi agian...thanks for you great support....
i need to write something in Persian in a textbox (persian language is written from right-to-left). Now, there is a Times-New-Roman font that has 'arabic' in it. I can use it fine, but, my problem is when i run the program (making it .exe) on another computer, the words come from left-to-right, so it doesnt make sense...how can i get it back? I played with the VB options, and came across the right-to-left option, but, I cant change it to 'true'....
thanks for your help in advance

[Brightguy]

It seems the RightToLeft property is operational only in "a bidirectional 32-bit Microsoft Windows environment, such as Arabic Microsoft Windows 95".

Of course, you could change the Alignment to "Right Justify" simulate Right-to-Left behaviour by changing how the characters are added to the text box in the KeyPress event, for example:

VisualBASIC:

Private Sub Text1_KeyPress(KeyAscii As Integer)     If KeyAscii <> vbKeyBack Then         Dim SelStart As Integer         SelStart = Text1.SelStart         If Text1.SelLength > 0 Then             Text1.Text = Left(Text1.Text, SelStart) & Right(Text1.Text, Len(Text1.Text) - SelStart - Text1.SelLength)             Text1.SelStart = SelStart         End If         Text1.Text = Left(Text1.Text, SelStart) & Chr(KeyAscii) & Right(Text1.Text, Len(Text1.Text) - SelStart)         Text1.SelStart = SelStart         KeyAscii = 0     End If End Sub

...That should do it. I think the Backspace/Delete keys are reversed, though.