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Anonymous
March 4, 2009
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Insert text into a TextFlow

  • March 4, 2009
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I am able to get text (all or part) out of an exisiting TextFlow using either TextFilter.export or textFlow.interactionManager.createTextScrap().

However, I can't seem to figure out how to insert text into a TextFlow (after the initial TextFilter.import). I see textFlow.interactionManager.pasteTextScrap(textScrap) but that requires use of the clipboard. If I use TextFilter.import, it replaces everything and it seems that I need to recreate all the ContainerController objects, etc. I see IEditManager has a replace function, but that doesn't really help me to append text or to replace all the text with new text. I assume I am just missing something obvious.
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Correct answer tpf70
You arent missing anything obvious. There really isnt anything native in TLF to do what you are looking for. I had the same question a while back, and came to the conclusion that it was something that I had to roll my own solution.
Check out this thread.
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cheighway
Participant
November 16, 2009

I use:

EditManager(textFlow.interactionManager).insertText("abcdefg");

That works for me.

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tpf70Correct answer
Inspiring
March 5, 2009
You arent missing anything obvious. There really isnt anything native in TLF to do what you are looking for. I had the same question a while back, and came to the conclusion that it was something that I had to roll my own solution.
Check out this thread.
Previous Thread for injecting text into a flow
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Anonymous
November 13, 2009

Hi tpf70,

I am also looking for the same solution. But I think this link is broken. Can you please help me out to overcome this problem.

Thanks in advance.

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