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In WPF, is there an easy way to add wavy underlines (like spelling errors in Word) to FlowDocument elements? There's the Underline class, but there seems to be no way to style it.

+1  A: 

A red underline is simple enough:

<Grid xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation"
      xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml"&gt;
    <Grid.Resources>
        <FlowDocument x:Key="doc">
            <Paragraph>
                <Run Text="This text is underlined in red.">
                    <Run.TextDecorations>
                        <TextDecoration Location="Underline">
                            <TextDecoration.Pen>
                                <Pen Brush="Red" Thickness="1" DashStyle="{x:Static DashStyles.Dot}"/>
                            </TextDecoration.Pen>
                        </TextDecoration>
                    </Run.TextDecorations>
                </Run>
            </Paragraph>
        </FlowDocument>
    </Grid.Resources>
    <FlowDocumentReader Document="{StaticResource doc}"/>
</Grid>

A wavy red underline would be a bit more involved, but I think you could create a VisualBrush with a wavy red thing in it, and set that as the Brush of the Pen that you specify for the underlining TextDecoration. Edit: see bstoney's post for this.

Robert Macnee
+9  A: 

You can create the wavy effect using the following changes to Robert Macne's solution

Add a visual brush to the Grid.Resources section:

<VisualBrush x:Key="WavyBrush" Viewbox="0,0,3,2" ViewboxUnits="Absolute" Viewport="0,0.8,6,4" ViewportUnits="Absolute" TileMode="Tile">
    <VisualBrush.Visual>
        <Path Data="M 0,1 C 1,0 2,2 3,1" Stroke="Red" StrokeThickness="0.2" StrokeEndLineCap="Square" StrokeStartLineCap="Square" />
    </VisualBrush.Visual>
</VisualBrush>

And change the pen to:

<Pen Brush="{StaticResource WavyBrush}" Thickness="6" />
bstoney
+1, this is just what I was thinking of but couldn't get it to work correctly, nice!
Robert Macnee
I found getting a cubic bezier path to scale nicely quite difficult. Two diagonal lines works as well, but didn't look as good.
bstoney
That WavyBrush above is not a wave I tested it.
Lisa
Lisa - I've re-tested in Expression Blend 4 and updated the visual brush. It now looks a bit more 'wavy' at 100%, the usual scale :)
bstoney