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Full repro: https://github.com/Myrmex/wpf-reprounderline. Please see instructions below.
I'm using a RichTextBox control in a WPF app getting its content from programmatically generated XAML code. In this control, I need to place toggle buttons for bold, italic, and underline, and update their toggle status whenever the user's selection changes, so that they reflect the status of selected text.
This works fine, except for a detail: detecting underline from the selected text (or just the text under the caret, when the selection is empty) does NOT work UNLESS I replace Span with Run. I can see the underline decoration displayed in both cases in the control, but if I place the caret inside it, it does not reflect this decoration: TextDecorations is empty.
This is a sample of the "faulty" generated XAML code:
<FlowDocument xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation"><Paragraph><Span Foreground="#FFFF0000">hello</Span> <Span><Span.TextDecorations><TextDecoration Location="Underline" /></Span.TextDecorations>under</Span></Paragraph></FlowDocument>
If I set the content of the WPF control to this code, underline is NOT detected. If I replace Span with Run, it does work, but I cannot do this in real code, as the XAML generator uses Span's rather than Run's to ensure that they can be nested (a Run only allows text children).
I tried with the attribute notation (<Span TextDecorations="Underline">...</Span>), but nothing changes. Whenever I manually underline something, the WPF control emits Run's, so that they work. Yet, it does not when using Span's.
Here is my detection code:
private void OnSelectionChanged(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)
{
// italic
object temp = _rtb.Selection.GetPropertyValue(TextElement.FontStyleProperty);
_tbbItalic.IsChecked =
temp != DependencyProperty.UnsetValue &&
temp != null &&
temp.Equals(FontStyles.Italic);
// bold
temp = _rtb.Selection.GetPropertyValue(TextElement.FontWeightProperty);
_tbbBold.IsChecked = temp != DependencyProperty.UnsetValue &&
temp != null &&
temp.Equals(FontWeights.Bold);
// underline
temp = _rtb.Selection.GetPropertyValue(Inline.TextDecorationsProperty);
_tbbUnderline.IsChecked = temp != DependencyProperty.UnsetValue &&
temp != null &&
temp.Equals(TextDecorations.Underline);
}
I have prepared a full repro solution: just launch the app and type something, adding bold, italic, underline; then move the caret around, and see how these are reflected in the buttons. You can get the WPF control's XAML code using the Get XAML button. Then load the faulty XAML code using the Load faulty button, and set the WPF control's content using the Set XAML button. Now, if you place the caret inside the underlined text, the underline is not detected. If you replace Span with Run, and set the WPF content again, this works.
Could anyone suggest a solution?