I have a WPF FlowDocument that has a few InlineUIContainers, these are simple InlineUIContainers, that contain a styled button with some text in the Button.Content. When I copy the text and InlineUIContainer containing the button from the FlowDocument to a TextBox, the button is not copied.
It is possible to somehow convert the inline button or convert the button to text in the pasted text data. I have tried using the FlowDocument.DataObject.Copying event, but I can't seem to find any good samples on how to use this or even if this is the right direction.
Thank you
I had the same problem and managed to get something like the following to work:
public class MyRichTextBox : RichTextBox
{
public MyRichTextBox()
: base()
{
CommandManager.RegisterClassCommandBinding(typeof(MyRichTextBox),
new CommandBinding(ApplicationCommands.Copy, OnCopy, OnCanExecuteCopy));
}
private static void OnCanExecuteCopy(object target, CanExecuteRoutedEventArgs args)
{
MyRichTextBox myRichTextBox = (MyRichTextBox)target;
args.CanExecute = myRichTextBox.IsEnabled && !myRichTextBox.Selection.IsEmpty;
}
private static void OnCopy(object sender, ExecutedRoutedEventArgs e)
{
MyRichTextBox myRichTextBox = (MyRichTextBox)sender;
Clipboard.SetText(GetInlineText(myRichTextBox));
e.Handled = true;
}
private static string GetInlineText(RichTextBox myRichTextBox)
{
StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
foreach (Block b in myRichTextBox.Document.Blocks)
{
if (b is Paragraph)
{
foreach (Inline inline in ((Paragraph)b).Inlines)
{
if (inline is InlineUIContainer)
{
InlineUIContainer uiContainer = (InlineUIContainer)inline;
if (uiContainer.Child is Button)
sb.Append(((Button)uiContainer.Child).Content);
}
else if (inline is Run)
{
Run run = (Run)inline;
sb.Append(run.Text);
}
}
}
}
return sb.ToString();
}
}
Of course this is very simplistic - you would probably create a subclass of Button and define an interface-function like "GetCopyToClipboardText" instead of having the "how to get text from a button"-code inside the richtextbox.
The example copies all text inside the richtextbox - it would be more usefull if only the selected part of the textbox was copied to the clipboard. This post gives an example of how to achive that.