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How to implement Text property for RichTextBox control in WinRT?

You can bind text with SfRichTextBoxAdv content by implementing an extension class with Text property.

Please refer the following code samples.

C#

/// <summary>
/// Represents the extension class for SfRichTextBoxAdv.
/// </summary>
public class SfRichTextBoxAdvExtension : SfRichTextBoxAdv
{
    #region Fields
    bool skipUpdating = false;
    #endregion
 
    #region Properties
    /// <summary>
    /// Gets or Sets the text.
    /// </summary>
    public string Text
    {
        get
        {
            return (string)GetValue(TextProperty);
        }
        set
        {
            SetValue(TextProperty, value);
        }
    }
    #endregion
 
    #region Constructor
    /// <summary>
    /// Initializes the instance of SfRichTextBoxAdvExtension class.
    /// </summary>
    public SfRichTextBoxAdvExtension()
    {
        // Wires the ContentChanged event.
        this.ContentChanged += RTE_ContentChanged;
    }
    #endregion
 
    #region Static Dependency Properties
    /// <summary>
    /// Using as a backing store for Text dependency property to enable styling, animation etc.
    /// </summary>
    public static readonly DependencyProperty TextProperty = DependencyProperty.Register("Text", typeof(string), typeof(SfRichTextBoxAdvExtension), new PropertyMetadata(string.Empty, new PropertyChangedCallback(OnTextChanged)));
    #endregion
 
    #region Static Events
    /// <summary>
    /// Called when text changed.
    /// </summary>
    /// <param name="obj"></param>
    /// <param name="e"></param>
    private static void OnTextChanged(DependencyObject obj, DependencyPropertyChangedEventArgs e)
    {
        SfRichTextBoxAdvExtension richTextBox = (SfRichTextBoxAdvExtension)obj;
        //Update the document with the text.
        richTextBox.UpdateDocument((string)e.NewValue);
    }
    #endregion
 
    #region Events
    /// <summary>
    /// Called when content changes in SfRichTextBoxAdv.
    /// </summary>
    /// <param name="obj"></param>
    /// <param name="args"></param>
    void RTE_ContentChanged(object obj, ContentChangedEventArgs args)
    {
        if (this.Document != null)
        {
            // To skip internal updation of document on setting Text property.
            skipUpdating = true;
            Stream stream = new MemoryStream();
            // Saves the document as text Stream.
            this.Save(stream, FormatType.Txt);
            stream.Position = 0;
            // Reads the stream and assigned the string to Text property
            using (StreamReader reader = new StreamReader(stream))
            {
                this.Text = reader.ReadToEnd();
            }
            skipUpdating = false;
        }
    }
    #endregion
 
    #region Implementation
    /// <summary>
    /// Updates the document.
    /// </summary>
    /// <param name="text">The text.</param>
    private void UpdateDocument(string text)
    {
        // If text property is set internally means, skip updating the document.
        if (!skipUpdating && !string.IsNullOrEmpty(text))
        {
            Stream stream = new MemoryStream();
            // Convert the text string to byte array.
            byte[] bytes = Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(text);
            // Writes the byte array to stream.
            stream.Write(bytes, 0, bytes.Length);
            stream.Position = 0;
            //Load the Text stream.
            Load(stream, FormatType.Txt);
        }
    }
    /// <summary>
    /// Disposes the instance.
    /// </summary>
    public void Dispose()
    {
        this.ContentChanged -= RTE_ContentChanged;
        ClearValue(TextProperty);
        base.Dispose();
    }
    #endregion
}

 

XAML

<local:SfRichTextBoxAdvExtension x:Name="richTextBoxAdv" Grid.Row="2" Text="{Binding Text, Mode=TwoWay}" LayoutType="Continuous" EnableMiniToolBar="False" FontFamily="Arial" FontSize="12" DocumentTitle="Note 1"/>

 

 

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