I have the following problem:
I want to setup a RichTextBox that automatically can resize the content inside to fit maximum of the available space while not change the layout of the content (e.g. Font sizes, Indent, etc.).
I saw already many questions about scaling the content of a TextBox but all questions was related to some kind of zoom slider. What I want is to really calculate the scaling so that it automatically best-fit into the TextBox.
What I have established so far is a LayoutTransform inside the AdornerDecorator of the RichTextBox template that is wrapped inside a ScrollViewer so that I can trigger a code-behind method to calculate the Scaling.
Initially the RichTextBox should not Scale when all content fit into the ViewPort. As soon as there is a need to enable the vertical ScrollBar, I change the ScaleFactor.
This works pretty good as long as it not comes to TextWrapping (so that scaling of X and Y will not cause the Text to wrap at different positions and additionally change the height). Any ideas?
I created a small demo to make things a little bit more clearer:
<Window x:Class="WpfApplication1.Window1"
xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation"
xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml"
Title="Window1" Height="300" Width="300">
<Window.Resources>
<ScaleTransform x:Key="ScaleTransform" ScaleY="{Binding ScaleFactor}"
ScaleX="{Binding ScaleFactor}"/>
</Window.Resources>
<Grid>
<RichTextBox AcceptsTab="True"
Background="Transparent"
BorderBrush="Transparent"
VerticalScrollBarVisibility="Auto"
HorizontalScrollBarVisibility="Disabled"
HorizontalAlignment="Stretch"
VerticalAlignment="Stretch">
<RichTextBox.Template>
<ControlTemplate TargetType="{x:Type TextBoxBase}">
<Border CornerRadius="2"
Background="{TemplateBinding Background}"
BorderThickness="{TemplateBinding BorderThickness}"
BorderBrush="{TemplateBinding BorderBrush}">
<ScrollViewer ScrollChanged="ScrollViewer_ScrollChanged">
<AdornerDecorator x:Name="PART_ContentHost" Focusable="False"
LayoutTransform="{StaticResource ScaleTransform}"/>
</ScrollViewer>
</Border>
</ControlTemplate>
</RichTextBox.Template>
</RichTextBox>
</Grid>
And the code-behind:
public partial class Window1 : Window, INotifyPropertyChanged
{
public Window1()
{
InitializeComponent();
this.DataContext = this;
}
private double scaleFactor = 1.0;
public double ScaleFactor
{
get { return scaleFactor; }
set
{
scaleFactor = value;
OnPropertyChanged("ScaleFactor");
}
}
private void ScrollViewer_ScrollChanged(object sender, ScrollChangedEventArgs e)
{
if (e.ExtentHeightChange == 0)
return;
if (e.Source.GetType() == typeof(RichTextBox))
return;
var missingHeight = e.ExtentHeightChange;
var heightWithoutScaling = e.ExtentHeight / ScaleFactor;
if (e.ViewportHeight <= heightWithoutScaling)
{
ScaleFactor = ((e.ViewportHeight / heightWithoutScaling));
}
}
#region INotifyPropertyChanged Members
/// <summary>
/// Raised when a property on this object has a new value
/// </summary>
public event PropertyChangedEventHandler PropertyChanged;
/// <summary>
/// Raises this object's PropertyChanged event.
/// </summary>
/// <param name="propertyName">The property that has a new value.</param>
protected virtual void OnPropertyChanged(string propertyName)
{
PropertyChangedEventHandler handler = this.PropertyChanged;
if (handler != null)
{
var e = new PropertyChangedEventArgs(propertyName);
handler(this, e);
}
}
#endregion