This prevents the programmer from being able to do a number of things, the major one is incorporating a find method. What good is placing the caret at the bottom of a document and/or highlighting a word if the caret or the highlighted word is out of view?

    Fortunately, our little friend the Windows Message comes to the rescue once again. Sooner or later you'll need the functions of the VBCE.COM VBCEMiscUtility control, a control for use in VBCE, and this is just another one of those situations.

    By sending the TextBox an EM_SCROLLCARET message, the textbox will scroll so that the caret is in view. Simply place an instance of the VBCEMiscUtil control on your main form, paste the ScrollTextBox routine into your code somewhere, and then call it like this:

  'Scroll to end of textbox
  ScrollTextBox Text1

Public Sub ScrollTextBox(TBox)
  'EM_SCROLLCARET = &HB7
  'Works around the SelStart scrolling Bug
  'Scrolls the text box so that the
  'caret (cursor) is in view
  Call VBCEUtil1.SendMessageLong( _
     TBox.hwnd, &HB7, 0, 0)
End Sub