I am looking for a way to present short FlowDocument strings in a label-like control.
In WPF the user can input text into a RichTextBox. The result is a FlowDocument string. I'm looking for a way to present that text in a label, in which:
- The user should not be able to edit or select (with the mouse) the text.
- There should be no scroll bars - like in a normal label the control should expand to accommodate all the text.
- If the user scrolls while the mouse is on the label, the control that should scroll is the parent of the control
- The control should be as lightweight as possible.
I have the following implementation that inherits FlowDocumentScrollViewer but I am sure there must be a better implementation (possibly inheriting other control than FlowDocumentScrollViewer).
public class FlowDocumentViewer : FlowDocumentScrollViewer
{
public FlowDocumentViewer()
{
this.SetValue(ScrollViewer.CanContentScrollProperty, false);
this.SetValue(ScrollViewer.VerticalScrollBarVisibilityProperty, ScrollBarVisibility.Hidden);
this.Padding = new Thickness(-17);
this.Document = new FlowDocument();
}
protected override void OnMouseWheel(MouseWheelEventArgs e)
{
e.Handled = false;
}
public string Text
{
get { return (string)GetValue(TextProperty); }
set { SetValue(TextProperty, value); }
}
public static readonly DependencyProperty TextProperty =
DependencyProperty.Register("Text", typeof(string), typeof(FlowDocumentViewer), new UIPropertyMetadata(string.Empty, TextChangedHandler));
private static void TextChangedHandler(DependencyObject d, DependencyPropertyChangedEventArgs e)
{
if (e.NewValue.Equals(string.Empty))
return;
FlowDocumentViewer fdv = (FlowDocumentViewer)d;
fdv.Document.Blocks.Clear();
using (MemoryStream stream = new MemoryStream(UTF8Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(e.NewValue.ToString())))
{
Section content = XamlReader.Load(stream) as Section;
fdv.Document.Blocks.Add(content);
}
}
}