I was successfully using FormattedLinkLabel to display rich text including hyperlinks, but this has 2 problems:
- You can't use the mouse whell to scroll the control when scrollbars are displayed?!!!
- I want the users to be able to copy and paste text from the control.
As is succinctly described in the 'Prevent Text from Being Edited' section of the help I switched to a FormattedTextEditor and set it to read only. However I couldn't understand why the links were not working. I found out why from an archive forum post - you have to hold down control to navigate to the links. I don't want this behaviour, I want it to behave like a FormattedLinkLabel. Is there any way to override this?
If the control is read-only then maybe the auto link navigation should be the default (same as link label). Or alternatively some property to override this behaviour would be useful.
Thanks
Martin.
Hi Martin,
I think the logic here is that when using an UltraFormattedTextEditor, the user needs to be able to use the mouse to select text for editing, or in this case, copying. So the link doesn't trigger without holding Ctrl. This is the same way it works in Microsoft Word, if I am not mistaken.
That being said, I can certainly understand how you might want the behavior you describe. But I don't see any way to do that right now. We'd have to add a property for it. So I recommend that you Submit a feature request to Infragistics and perhaps this functionality can be added in a future release of the controls.