How can I perform text formatting with a ReadOnly document?

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Posted 13 years ago by Craig - Varigence, Inc.
Version: 11.1.0545
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I have a syntax editor where I want to format the displayed text but not have it be user-editable. When I try use the ITextFormatter service to format the document's text, nothing happens when the document's IsReadOnly property is set to true. Is there a way I can perform formats but prevent users from editing the text?

Thanks,

-Craig

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Posted 13 years ago by Actipro Software Support - Cleveland, OH, USA
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Hi Craig,

I would think that formatting should work as long as your formatting code's text change isn't doing a read-only check.

If you think there is a problem, please e-mail us a new simple sample project that shows the issue so we can debug. Thanks!


Actipro Software Support

Posted 13 years ago by Craig - Varigence, Inc.
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You can repro this using the HTML Editor (Web Lang Add-On) sample in the Actipro Sample Browser. In the sample's MainControl.xaml file, set the SyntaxEditor's EditorDocument's IsReadOnly property to true:

<docking:Workspace>
    <editor:SyntaxEditor 
            x:Name="syntaxEditor" 
            DocumentParseDataChanged="OnSyntaxEditorDocumentParseDataChanged" 
            UserInterfaceUpdate="OnSyntaxEditorUserInterfaceUpdate"
            ViewSearch="OnEditorViewSearch"
            ViewSelectionChanged="OnSyntaxEditorViewSelectionChanged"
            >
            <editor:EditorDocument xml:space="preserve" IsReadOnly="true">
When you run the sample and press the Format Document button, you'll see that the text isn't formatted.

-Craig
Posted 13 years ago by Actipro Software Support - Cleveland, OH, USA
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Hi Craig,

Thanks for the repro steps. It happens there because our XmlTextFormatter does have the read-only check in its options:
var options = new TextChangeOptions() {
    RetainSelection = true,
    CheckReadOnly = true,
    OffsetDelta = TextChangeOffsetDelta.SequentialOnly
};
For the next version, we're going to disable the format commands when they will perform on a read-only document (for toolbar buttons). With that update and with the current code, if you are using our XML formatter, you'd probably have to set the document read-only state to false, then call the format programmatically and directly via the service, and set read-only back to true.


Actipro Software Support

The latest build of this product (v24.1.3) was released 1 month ago, which was after the last post in this thread.

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