Re: textbuffer text as string with markup.

Hi guys,

I know it's silly to reply to my own text, but now that I've done some more research, I think I should clarify the problem. Sorry if seeing this in your inbox again is annoying.

I have a treeview and a textview with some simple markup being done like so:

                protected virtual void OnBoldActionActivated (object sender, System.EventArgs e)
                {
                               
                        TextIter startIter;
                        TextIter stopIter;
                        TextBuffer buffer = textNote.Buffer;
                        if (buffer.GetSelectionBounds(out startIter, out stopIter)) {
                                buffer.ApplyTag("bold", startIter, stopIter);
                        }
                }

As some point, I create a data object like so:

TestObject testObj = new TestObj(textNote.Buffer.Text);

And the model for my treeview is a List<TestObject>.

The render method is written like this:

                        TestObject testObj = (TestObject) model.GetValue(iter, 0);
                        (cell as Gtk.CellRendererText).Markup = testObj.Text;
 
however - somewhere in there my markup is getting lost.  

Any feedback would be very much appreciated! I know this has to be a pretty basic question - so even a few pointers in the right direction would be very well awesome!

Thanks,

jmauster wrote:

Hi,

Let's say I have a TextView called textNote. And let's say that there are some tags that have been applied (bold, italics).

When I use this code in an eventhandler:

string text = textNote.Buffer.Text;
textNote.Buffer.Text = string.Empty;
textNote.Buffer.Text = text;

I end up losing the markup. Why is that? How can I preserve the markup in a string?

Thanks,

Evan