Better Way of Manipulating RichText in C#?

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BKimmel picture BKimmel · Sep 25, 2008 · Viewed 8.5k times · Source

I need to create and copy to the clipboard some RichText with standard "formatting" like bold/italics, indents and the like. The way I'm doing it now seems kind of inelegant... I'm creating a RichTextBox item and applying my formatting through that like so:

RichTextBox rtb = new RichTextBox();
Font boldfont = new Font("Times New Roman", 10, FontStyle.Bold);
rtb.Text = "sometext";
rtb.SelectAll()
rtb.SelectionFont = boldfont;
rtb.SelectionIndent = 12;

There has got to be a better way, but after a few hours of searching I was unable to come up with anything better. Any ideas?

Edit: The RichTextBox (rtb) is not displayed/drawn anywhere on a form. I'm just using the object to format my RichText.

Answer

hova picture hova · Sep 25, 2008

You may want to suspend the layout of the richtextbox before you do all of that, to avoid unecessary flicker. That's one of the common mistakes I used to make which made it seem "inelegant"

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