How to insert inline content from one FlowDocument into another?
- by Robert Rossney
I'm building an application that needs to allow a user to insert text from one RichTextBox at the current caret position in another one. I spent a lot of time screwing around with the FlowDocument's object model before running across this technique - source and target are both FlowDocuments:
using (MemoryStream ms = new MemoryStream())
{
TextRange tr = new TextRange(source.ContentStart, source.ContentEnd);
tr.Save(ms, DataFormats.Xaml);
ms.Seek(0, SeekOrigin.Begin);
tr = new TextRange(target.CaretPosition, target.CaretPosition);
tr.Load(ms, DataFormats.Xaml);
}
This works remarkably well.
The only problem I'm having with it now is that it always inserts the source as a new paragraph. It breaks the current run (or whatever) at the caret, inserts the source, and ends the paragraph. That's appropriate if the source actually is a paragraph (or more than one paragraph), but not if it's just (say) a line of text.
I think it's likely that the answer to this is going to end up being checking the target to see if it consists entirely of a single block, and if it does, setting the TextRange to point at the beginning and end of the block's content before saving it to the stream.
The entire world of the FlowDocument is a roiling sea of dark mysteries to me. I can become an expert at it if I have to (per Dostoevsky: "Man is the animal who can get used to anything."), but if someone has already figured this out and can tell me how to do this it would make my life far easier.
