CARRIAGE RETURN not working in text editor in multiline mode

Hi,

We are facing problems with CARRIAGE RETURN in the text editor in multiline mode. If the control is not focused then the control shows the line feeds correct, but as soon as we focus the control it looses the line feed and shows some special characters. we r using Infragistics controls in one of our critcal project. due to this problem our customers are not able to edit text in multiline text box. I dont know why this type of basic problems is coming in a control like text box. From the code I inserted environment.NewLine for carriage return, then also its giving same problem.

Does anyone have the same problem or some idea, please give me reply

Thanks in advance

Ajo

Hi Ajo,

You seem to be using "carriage return" and "line feed" interchangably here. But it's important to understand that they are not the same thing. 

Anyway… what happens here is that when you click on an UltraTextEditor control and it goes into edit mode, it displays a Microsoft TextBox control and it is this control that can't handle the characters you are giving it.

I just tested this out and I cannot reproduce this problem, though, either with the MS TextBox or the UltraTextEditor. It seems to work fine with CR of LF or both. Here's the code I used to test it.

            this.textBox1.Text = "A\rB";
            this.textBox2.Text = "A\nB";
            this.textBox3.Text = "A" + Environment.NewLine + "B";

            this.ultraTextEditor1.Text = "A\rB";
            this.ultraTextEditor2.Text = "A\nB";
            this.ultraTextEditor3.Text = "A" + Environment.NewLine + "B";

What version of the controls are you using? Do you have the
latest Hot Fix.

We have the exact same problem. We are using UltraTextEditor in multiline mode. When the user type some text in multiple lines, if we save the text and re open it, this problem happens. When the user click else where, all text in the textbox wraps in to one line making it unreadable.

Any solution to this problem from your side? I am sure this is not a Microsoft bug.

I think I found the problem. This is not a problem with the control. We are adding the text to xml and then sending it through a webservice. Somehow, on the other end of the web service, the \n\r is getting converted to \n (losing the \r). This is what causing the problem. 

Ignore my above post.

 

 

Well, I think there is something more to this.

I agree that due to the XML escape issues, the \r\n is getting converted to \n

But when the control gets focus, it is still able to show them in multiple lines. This means, in the edit mode, the Microsoft TextBox control is able to translate the \n in to new line. But when it loses focus, the UltraTextEditor is not able to do the same, so everything gets wrapped in to single line.

The right thing to do is, solve the XML escaping issue on our side.

Next thing should be, the UltraTextEditor should behave the same way as Microsoft Text Editor. It should interpret the \n in to a new line in the control.

For the benefit of others, we are doing a simple work around to solve this time:

textEditor.Text = content.Replace("\r\n", "\n").Replace("\n", "\r\n");

 

 

[quote user="tonymanjaly"] Next thing should be, the UltraTextEditor should behave the same way as Microsoft Text Editor. It should interpret the \n in to a new line in the control.[/quote] I'm not sure what observation you based this on but if you set a TextBox's Multiline property to true and assign the following value:

this.textBox1.Text = "Line1\nLine2\nLine3";

It does not interpret the \n as a newline. The correct value to use to get line breaks is "\r\n", which is the value returned from the System.Environment.NewLine property.

I'm experiencing exactly the same issue.

1. Set multiline to true, and set the ultraTextEditor text

ultraTextEditor1.Text = "Line1\nLine2\nLine3";

2. when ultraTextEditor1 is in focus, the text looks like:

 Line1Line2Line3

3. when ultraTextEditor1 lose focus, the text like:

Line1

Line2

Line3

 

Library:

Infragistics2.Win.UltraWinEditors.v10.3

Version:

10.3.20103.2067

 

 

The the UltraTextEditor is in edit mode, it uses an inbox TextBox control to allow you to edit. This control does not support "\n" by itself. You must use Envorinment.NewLine which is "/r/n"

Has there been a resolution to this? I have an untra textbox. I'm using vb.NET. I am building a string of text from multiple strings

(ex.) str = "ABC" & Environment.NewLine & "DEF" &  Environment.NewLine & "GHI"

and It shows up ABC||DEF||GHI in edit mode and properly when not.

Is there a way to show the text properly formatted?

Nevermind on this. I found the problem but I thought I'd post so maybe it helps someone. My problem was the the strings I am concatonating had embedded CRLF characters and it was the CRLF that was showing up as ||. I added a replace (string, vbCRLF, Environment.NewLine) and the display shows up fine.