Get bookmarks in selection?

[Charles]

Hi

I've tried using inspiration from a Silverlight question, but to no avail (http://www.telerik.com/community/forums/silverlight/richtextbox/get-hyperlink-from-selected-text.aspx)

What I'm trying to do is find any bookmarks within the current selection, or that surround the current caret position.  I'd settle for just the last, but I'm struggling!

e.g, say I had a bookmark where the "[" and "]" are in the following sentence:

"The quick brown fox [jumped over] the lazy [dog]"

If the caret was anywhere within jumped over (either no text selected, or anywhere up to all of "jumped over" selected), I'd be able to get the bookmark name of the surrounding bookmark.

If I selected the whole sentence, I'd hope to get both bookmarks returned - but the first part is more important!

Thanks for any help.

Charlie

[Martin Ivanov]

Hi Charlie

It is possible to achieve both tasks.
If I have understood you correctly, the desired behavior is:
1. If there is no selection, the containing bookmark ranges should be returned;
2. If there is selection, a bookmark range should be returned only if both the BookmarkRangeStart and BookmarkRangeEnd are selected.

Here is a method that does this task:

    private List<BookmarkRangeStart> GetAllBookmarks()
    {
        List<BookmarkRangeStart> bookmarks = new List<BookmarkRangeStart>();
        if (this.editor.Document.Selection.IsEmpty)
        {
            InlineLayoutBox currentInline = this.editor.Document.CaretPosition.GetCurrentInlineBox();
            bookmarks = this.editor.Document.GetContainingAnnotationRanges<BookmarkRangeStart>(currentInline.AssociatedInline, true).ToList<BookmarkRangeStart>();
        }
        else
        {
            IEnumerable<InlineLayoutBox> selectedBoxes = this.editor.Document.Selection.GetSelectedBoxes();
            foreach (var inlineBox in selectedBoxes)
            {
                BookmarkRangeStart bookmarkStart = inlineBox.AssociatedInline as BookmarkRangeStart;
                if (bookmarkStart != null && selectedBoxes.Contains(bookmarkStart.End.FirstLayoutBox as InlineLayoutBox))
                {
                    bookmarks.Add(bookmarkStart);
                }
            }
        }
        return bookmarks;
    }
}

Note that if you select only the text in the bookmark, the BookmarkRangeStart will be considered outside of the selection and will not be included in the bookmarks collection. If this is not desired, you can manually check if there is an inline before the fist layout box in the selected boxes and if it is a BookmarkRangeStart answering the other requirements.

I hope this answers your questions. Don't hesitate to contact us again in case of a problem.

Greetings,
Martin
the Telerik team

[Charles]

Hi Martin

Thanks for this - I'll give it a try.

I had come up with a solution that works, but it's not quite as elegant as yours - taking a while to get to grips with the document model!
Charlie

[Ivailo Karamanolev]

Hello,

Let us know if you need additional assistance on the matter.

Greetings,
Ivailo Karamanolev
the Telerik team