Manipulating the Selection Object
To change the formatting of a specific part of a document, you need to select it using the Selection class of TX Text Control .NET for Windows Forms. At first sight, some programmers do not see that the Selection object can be created and manipulated independently from the current text. You can create a new Selection object, adjust the formatting and set the text before applying this object to the current selection. This below code shows this approach by using the currently selected text in…
To change the formatting of a specific part of a document, you need to select it using the Selection class of TX Text Control .NET for Windows Forms.
At first sight, some programmers do not see that the Selection object can be created and manipulated independently from the current text. You can create a new Selection object, adjust the formatting and set the text before applying this object to the current selection.
This below code shows this approach by using the currently selected text in TX Text Control.
TXTextControl.Selection mySel = new TXTextControl.Selection(textControl1.Selection.Start, textControl1.Selection.Length);
mySel.Bold = true;
mySel.Italic = true;
mySel.ParagraphFormat.Alignment = TXTextControl.HorizontalAlignment.Right;
mySel.Text = "New Text";
textControl1.Selection = mySel;Related Posts
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