Append New Paragraph To RichTextBox

Question

I need to programmatically add a new paragraph to a RichTextBox control (just like pressing Enter). Using the code below, it does add a new paragraph but:

It deletes all the existing text in the control
The insertion point remains in the first line and doesn't move to the second newly created line

It only seems to add a new paragraph once, i.e. if I run the code a second time, a third paragraph isn't created

        FlowDocument flowDoc= rtbTextContainer.Document;
        Paragraph pr = new Paragraph();                
        flowDoc.Blocks.Add(pr);
        rtbTextContainer.Document = flowDoc;

I was testing a few things - I commented out the second and third lines of code, so I was only reading the Document and immediately set it back to the RichTextBox again, but that also deleted all existing text, so the issue might have something to do with that, but I can't figure it out.

How can I overcome these issues and programmatically append a new paragraph, and then set its focus.

Thanks

I can't reproduce the text deletion. I tried both the case shown in the code and your simplest case -- getting and setting back the FlowDocument -- and the text in the control was not deleted. Is there something else going on here not shown in the question? Maybe a data binding? — dbc

dbvega dbvega · Accepted Answer · 2015-02-21T00:18:35

Part of the view:

<Grid>
    <Grid.RowDefinitions>
        <RowDefinition Height="*"/>
        <RowDefinition Height="Auto"/>
    </Grid.RowDefinitions>
    <RichTextBox x:Name="RichTextBox1"/>
    <Button Grid.Row="1" Content="click-me" Click="Button_Click"/>
</Grid>

And the code behind:

private void Button_Click(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)
{
    var paragraph = new Paragraph();
    paragraph.Inlines.Add(new Run(string.Format("Paragraph Sample {0}", Environment.TickCount)));
    RichTextBox1.Document.Blocks.Add(paragraph);

    RichTextBox1.Focus();
    RichTextBox1.ScrollToEnd();
}

I hope it helps.

Append New Paragraph To RichTextBox

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