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William
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William asked on 28 Sep 2012, 01:40 PM
Hi.
I had a need to get the position of the cursor on a particular line in the RadRichTextBox. To do that, I added a selection from the start of the current line to the caret position, and got the length of the selected text, as follows:

Dim

 

 

iCol As Integer = 1

 

 

 

Dim oCaretPos As DocumentPosition = oRadRTB.Document.CaretPosition

 

 

 

Dim oStartPos As DocumentPosition = New DocumentPosition(oCaretPos)

 

oStartPos.MoveToCurrentLineStart()

oRadRTB.Document.Selection.AddSelectionStart(oStartPos)

oRadRTB.Document.Selection.AddSelectionEnd(oCaretPos)

iCol = oRadRTB.Document.Selection.GetSelectedText().Length + 1


Once I get that value (iCol), I want to clear the selection I just added. When I call Document.Selection.Clear(), it clears all selections. What this means is that if the user selectes text, that that selection is cleared along with my programmatic selection.

Is there a way to clear my programmatic selection without clearing the user's selection? Can I iterate through selections, for instance, and remove individual ones?

Thank you.

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Iva Toteva
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answered on 01 Oct 2012, 08:40 AM
Hello William,

You can create a new instance of the DocumentSelection class and use it instead of changing the visible selection (that is a property of the document).

Here is an example:

DocumentSelection selection = new DocumentSelection(this.radRichTextBox.Document);
DocumentPosition start = new DocumentPosition(this.radRichTextBox.Document.CaretPosition);
start.MoveToCurrentLineStart();
selection.SetSelectionStart(start);
DocumentPosition end = new DocumentPosition(this.radRichTextBox.Document.CaretPosition);
selection.AddSelectionEnd(end);
MessageBox.Show(selection.GetSelectedText());
selection.Clear();

In VB and your variable names, that would be:
Dim selection As New DocumentSelection(Me.oRadRTB.Document)
Dim oStartPos As New DocumentPosition(Me.oRadRTB.Document.CaretPosition)
oStartPos.MoveToCurrentLineStart()
selection.SetSelectionStart(oStartPos)
Dim oCaretPos As New DocumentPosition(Me.oRadRTB.Document.CaretPosition)
selection.AddSelectionEnd(oCaretPos)
MessageBox.Show(selection.GetSelectedText())
selection.Clear()

I hope this helps.

Regards,
Iva Toteva
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