Siverlight Textbox

David Smith

I am trying to get the input text from the textbox, At the moment when i am deugging datacontext is null for somereason, can someone assist me?

after getting the data from the textbox, i want to assign it the textblock on my next page

uutmanager.Information = richTextBoxInformation.DataContext.ToString();

textBlockUutInformation.DataContext = uutmanager.Information;

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Vulpes15y ago
Accepted answer
Sorry, I hadn't noticed before that it was a RichTextBox rather than an ordinary TextBox and so doesn't have a Text property.

You'll have to go through this rigmarole to get the text content:

string text = "";

foreach (Paragraph paragraph in richTextBoxInformation.Blocks.OfType())
{
foreach (Run run in paragraph.Inlines.OfType())
{
text += run.Text + "\r\n";
}
}

or just use this hack:

richTextBoxInformation.SelectAll();
string text = richTextBoxInformation.Selection.Text;
David Smith15y ago
got you,
Vulpes15y ago
By plain text, I mean text that's all in the same font and color.

If you use mixed fonts or colors, then it's no longer just plain text.
David Smith15y ago
I thought input text is always plain text. Teach me something new that i dont know lololo
David Smith15y ago
Whats your defnition of plain text, and give me an example of something thats not plain text?
Vulpes15y ago
If it's just plain text, I prefer to use the ordinary TextBox.
David Smith15y ago
Yeah I just figure it out using the selectall();

which do you prefer to use richtextbox or regular textbox
David Smith15y ago
So which property do we choose. Man silverlight so different webforms lolol. I just started with silverlight a couple of 4 to 5 days ago. The little things is killing me like retrieving from text box. In windows form it would be textbox.text

I only see DataContext, SelectAll(), Selection. I am not for sure which property to use for the rich textbox
Vulpes15y ago
I think you're using the wrong property as DataContext is concerned with data binding.

The Text property contains the actual text in the TextBox.