Set RTF text into WPF RichTextBox control

Question

I have this RTF text:

{\rtf1\ansi\ansicpg1252\deff0\deflang1033{\fonttbl{\f0\fnil\fcharset0 Arial;}}
{\colortbl ;\red0\green0\blue0;\red255\green0\blue0;}
\viewkind4\uc1\pard\qc\cf1\fs16 test \b bold \cf2\b0\i italic\cf0\i0\fs17 
\par }

How to set this text into WPF RichTextBox?

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Solution:

public void SetRTFText(string text)
{
    MemoryStream stream = new MemoryStream(ASCIIEncoding.Default.GetBytes(text));
    this.mainRTB.Selection.Load(stream, DataFormats.Rtf);
}

Thanks for help from Henk Holterman.

Answer 1

Do you really have to start with a string?

One method to load RTF is this:

rtfBox.Selection.Load(myStream, DataFormats.Rtf);

You probably should call SelectAll() before that if you want to replace existing text.

So, worst case, you'll have to write your string to a MemoryStream and then feed that stream to the Load() method. Don't forget to Position=0 in between.

But I'm waiting to see somebody to come up with something more elegant.

Answer 2

Create an Extension method

    public static void SetRtf(this RichTextBox rtb, string document)
    {
        var documentBytes = Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(document);
        using (var reader = new MemoryStream(documentBytes))
        {
            reader.Position = 0;
            rtb.SelectAll();
            rtb.Selection.Load(reader, DataFormats.Rtf);
        }
    }

Then you can do WinForm-esque style

richTextBox1.SetRtf(rtf);

Answer 3

string rtf = @"{\rtf1\ansi\ansicpg1252\deff0\deflang1033{\fonttbl{\f0\fnil\fcharset0 Arial;}} {\colortbl ;\red0\green0\blue0;\red255\green0\blue0;} \viewkind4\uc1\pard\qc\cf1\fs16 test \b bold \cf2\b0\i italic\cf0\i0\fs17  \par } ";
richTextBox1.Rtf = rtf;

It's working fine

Answer 4

I wrote a really slick solution by extending the RichTextBox class to allow Binding to an actual rich text file.

I came across this question/answer but didn't really get what I was looking for, so hopefully what I have learned will help out those who read this in the future.

Loading a RichTextBox from an RTF file using binding or a RichTextFile control

Answer 5

Edit: This answer assumes WinForms instead of WPF.

Simply use RichTextBox.Rtf:

string rtf = @"{\rtf1\ansi\ansicpg1252\deff0\deflang1033{\fonttbl{\f0\fnil\fcharset0 Arial;}} {\colortbl ;\red0\green0\blue0;\red255\green0\blue0;} \viewkind4\uc1\pard\qc\cf1\fs16 test \b bold \cf2\b0\i italic\cf0\i0\fs17  \par } ";
richTextBox1.Rtf = rtf;