CharacterPropertiesBase Interface
Serves as the base for the CharacterProperties interface providing access to character properties.
Namespace: DevExpress.XtraRichEdit.API.Native
Assembly: DevExpress.RichEdit.v23.2.Core.dll
NuGet Packages: DevExpress.RichEdit.Core, DevExpress.Win.Navigation
Declaration
Related API Members
The following members return CharacterPropertiesBase objects:
Remarks
The CharacterPropertiesBase interface allows you to get/set character formatting.
Use the SubDocument.BeginUpdateCharacters and the SubDocument.EndUpdateCharacters paired methods to modify character formatting, such as the CharacterPropertiesBase.FontName, CharacterPropertiesBase.FontSize, CharacterPropertiesBase.Bold, CharacterPropertiesBase.ForeColor etc.
To accomplish this, call the SubDocument.BeginUpdateCharacters method for the specified range, use the returned CharacterProperties interface to modify the required properties and call the SubDocument.EndUpdateCharacters method to finalize the modification.
Note
Make sure that the SubDocument.BeginUpdateCharacters method always has its corresponding SubDocument.EndUpdateCharacters method to ensure proper operation of the control.
The following code snippet changes the font and the color of the selected text.
document.BeginUpdate();
document.AppendText("Normal\nFormatted\nNormal");
document.EndUpdate();
// The target range is the second paragraph
DocumentRange range = document.Paragraphs[1].Range;
// Create and customize an object
// that sets character formatting for the selected range
CharacterProperties cp = document.BeginUpdateCharacters(range);
cp.FontName = "Comic Sans MS";
cp.FontSize = 18;
cp.ForeColor = Color.Blue;
cp.BackColor = Color.Snow;
cp.Underline = UnderlineType.DoubleWave;
cp.UnderlineColor = Color.Red;
// Finalize modifications
// with this method call
document.EndUpdateCharacters(cp);