如何创建一个条纹的richtextbox？

Question

I need to display text in a RichtTextBox with a green striped background. This means, the first line has a white background-color, the second has a green background-color, the third has white, the next green again etc.

How can I implement this?

The only way I imagine at the moment is setting the color for every textline. But I would have to fill each line with spaces to get whole lines. This way seems to be bad practice to me.

I think about something like OnPaint event, etc. where I can set the background color for every line before text is displayed.

If there is another TextControl that can handle my problem or I have to implement an own control this is an acceptable solution, too. Just give me some hint.

PS: I'm using .Net2.0.

Answer 1

One option to achieve this would be to use the open source http://scintillanet.codeplex.com/ project. Another SO user asked how to alternate row colors with this particular tool: Alternate row coloring in Scintilla

If you're not opposed to paying for it the WPF Actipro Syntax Editor supports this functionality though I'm not certain the WinForm version does.

A final option would be to use some code from #Develop or the WPF AvalonEdit