Delete entire text in rtb programmatically

[Karl]

Hi,

How do you simply delete the entire content of a richtextbox programmatically?

Thanks,
Karl

[Stefan]

Hello Karl,

Thank you for writing.

RadRichTextBox holds its content in RadDocument. Setting the Document property of RadRichTextBox to a new instance of RadDocument will clear the previous document will its data:

radRichTextBox1.Document = new RadDocument();

I hope that the provided information addresses your question. Should you have any other questions, do not hesitate to contact us.

Kind regards,
Stefan
the Telerik team

[Hannah]

I started with that, but then began to wonder if I was introducing any additional memory overhead by creating a new document instead of simply using a "Clear" method of some type.

In my situation, I'm creating an on-the-fly preview of text, and the document will be re-created several times as the user goes from place to place in another part of the screen.  Will I incur unnecessary memory overhead from creating a new document repeatably?

Would it be advisable to create several documents that I'll swap in and out of view as I need them?

Thanks!

Wayne

[Stefan]

Hello Wayne,

In general, the old instance of the Document will not be referenced anywhere and it will be collected by the Garbage Collector when needed, so this should not incur any memory overhead. 

Alternative method to clear a document will be to simply select its content and delete it:

this.radRichTextBox1.Document.Selection.SelectAll();
this.radRichTextBox1.Document.Delete(false);

You can use this one if you prefer.

I hope this helps.

Regards,
Stefan
Telerik

[Hannah]

Wonderful!  Thanks!