Draging Images in Rich text box

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I am developing an windows Application containing rich text box.In that i have to place images. I wrote code to place images inside rich text box.its working fine.But i want to drag an Image inside rich text box from one place to other in rich text box.I don't no how to do it. In internet also, i did not find any solution.So, Plz help me.

Posted 31-Oct-11 21:56pm

nadigatlatulasirao

Updated 1-Nov-11 18:11pm

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 1-Nov-11 11:46am

Tag it! WPF, Silverlight, Forms, what?
--SA

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Try this code in constructor:

richTextBox.AddHandler(RichTextBox.DragOverEvent, new DragEventHandler(RichTextBox_DragOver), true);

richTextBox.AddHandler(RichTextBox.DropEvent, new DragEventHandler(RichTextBox_Drop), true);

Also set e.handled = false inside RichTextBox_DragOver

Posted 27-Dec-11 23:02pm

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov · Accepted Answer · 2011-11-01T06:05:00

To best of my knowledge, such operation is not supported by the RichTextBox classes (and I don't know what class do you mean exactly; please see my comment to the question: you should specify it exactly — always). So, the only way I can see is using clipboard.

In your DragDrop event handler you should do something like this:

C#

myRichTextBox.DragDrop += (sender, eventArgs) => {
    RichTextBox richTextBox = (RichTextBox)sender;
    Image image = eventArgs.??? // depends on UI library
    //in WPF the declaration above would be BitmapSource image...
    Clipboard.SetImage(image);
    richTextBox.Paste();
} //myRichTextBox.DragDrop

Again, it depends on what UI library you use (tag it — always!), but you should get the picture. :-)

Sorry the code above is not exact code you will need. This is because you did not specify exact class of RichTextBox and UI library. Please, based on this idea, go to MSDN help and find exact types and methods to use. With different .NET UI libraries, they are somewhat similar but different.

[EDIT]

I recently found the solution for inserting images in System.Windows.Forms.RichTextBox; it is based on Clipboard. This is not a very good support, so I also offered an interesting alternative I tested and found great. Please see my recent answer:

how to open word file with images and bullets in a rich text box[^].

—SA