Getting the Text of a Specific Page Without the Selection Class
Using the Selection class to retrieve text from a specific page can cause visible flickering and cursor displacement in large documents. This sample calculates page bounds with the TextChar collection and extracts text programmatically without altering the current display.
Sometimes, it is necessary to retrieve the text at a specific position, without previously selecting it - this avoids flickering and cursor displacement.
I just prepared a sample application that calculates the page bounds to extract the text using the TextChar collection.
Please take a look at the TX Text Control Source Code library to read the full article and download the sample code:
Getting the text of a specific page without the Selection class
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