Highlighting words in RichEditBox

Question

It is needed to highlight by fiven colour a substring in the document RichEditBox. For this purpose I wrote a method:

private async Task ChangeTextColor(string text, Color color)
{
    string textStr;
    bool theEnd = false;
    int startTextPos = 0;
    myRichEdit.Document.GetText(TextGetOptions.None, out textStr);

    while (theEnd == false)
    {
        myRichEdit.Document.GetRange(startTextPos, textStr.Length).GetText(TextGetOptions.None, out textStr);
        var isFinded = myRichEdit.Document.GetRange(startTextPos, textStr.Length).FindText(text, textStr.Length, FindOptions.None);

        if (isFinded != 0)
        {
            string textStr2;
            textStr2 = myRichEdit.Document.Selection.Text;

            var dialog = new MessageDialog(textStr2);
            await dialog.ShowAsync();

            myRichEdit.Document.Selection.CharacterFormat.BackgroundColor = color;
            startTextPos = myRichEdit.Document.Selection.EndPosition;
            myRichEdit.Document.ApplyDisplayUpdates();
        }
        else
        {
            theEnd = true;
        }
    } 
}

In the debugger you can see that there is a substring and isFinded is equal with the number of signs (or symbols) in the found substring. It means the fragment is found and judging by the description of the method FindText should be highlighted but it isn't. In textStr2 an empty line returns and, correspondingly, the colour doesn't change. I cannot identify the reasons of the error.

score 5 · Accepted Answer · answered Feb 27 '16 at 08:33

The code you postted did not set the selection, so the myRichEdit.Document.Selection is null. You can use ITextRange.SetRange to set the selection. And you can use ITextRange.FindText method to find the string in the selection.

For example:

private void ChangeTextColor(string text, Color color)
{
    string textStr;

    myRichEdit.Document.GetText(TextGetOptions.None, out textStr);

    var myRichEditLength = textStr.Length;

    myRichEdit.Document.Selection.SetRange(0, myRichEditLength);
    int i = 1;
    while (i > 0)
    {
        i = myRichEdit.Document.Selection.FindText(text, myRichEditLength, FindOptions.Case);

        ITextSelection selectedText = myRichEdit.Document.Selection;
        if (selectedText != null)
        {
            selectedText.CharacterFormat.BackgroundColor = color;
        }
    }
}

Highlighting words in RichEditBox

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