Can a textblock have a color background?

[whoit]

I'm using ContentCreator, and ShowTextBlock.

Is it possible to set the background of the textblock color ?

For example, if I create a textblock with the intent of covering existing text, I would want the text to be black, and the background to be white...
Or if want, white text on a black background, etc..

Thanks.

[Sasha - Tracker Dev Team]

Hello Wayne,

You should fill the rectangle first and then draw the text on top. The rectangle can be calculated when you output the text itself with DTF_CalcSizeOnly flag.
For more, please refer to the https://github.com/tracker-software/PDF ... oreAPIDemo project.
Look into the 4.3 Text Rendering Mode and 4.7 Patterns sample for more info.

Cheers,
Alex

[whoit]

OK, thanks - I'll dig around.

BTW I've downloaded and run the new Demo - nice!

Only one issue: While running, after I select any sample from the left side, the "Go To Source" button does nothing,
nor does the code show in the window below the button.

(I'm running VS 2017)

[Sasha - Tracker Dev Team]

Hello Wayne,

Please check the NuGet packages for the project - the FCTB package should be installed for the text coloring (just for a test to ensure that they did).
As for the problem, please check the toolStripButton2_Click implementation - and read the exception codes if they occur.
I think you can experience the problem here:

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EnvDTE.DTE dte = (EnvDTE.DTE)System.Runtime.InteropServices.Marshal.GetActiveObject("VisualStudio.DTE");

Cheers,
Alex