ITextView Interface

Reference

Definition

Namespace:: Microsoft.VisualStudio.Text.Editor

Assembly:: Microsoft.VisualStudio.Text.UI.dll

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Represents a view of text in an ITextBuffer. It is the base class for a platform-specific interface that has methods to allow the formatted text to be rendered.

public interface class ITextView : Microsoft::VisualStudio::Utilities::IPropertyOwner

public interface class ITextView : Microsoft::VisualStudio::Utilities::IPropertyOwner

__interface ITextView : Microsoft::VisualStudio::Utilities::IPropertyOwner

public interface ITextView : Microsoft.VisualStudio.Utilities.IPropertyOwner

type ITextView = interface
    interface IPropertyOwner

Public Interface ITextView
Implements IPropertyOwner

Derived: Microsoft.VisualStudio.Text.Editor.ITextView2

Microsoft.VisualStudio.Text.Editor.IWpfTextView

Implements: IPropertyOwner

Remarks

A text view is a platform-independent representation of a contiguous block of formatted and adorned text, accessible through the TextViewLines property. It also instantiates an instance of an IEditorOperations component part so that it can execute various commands.

The text is formatted based on the classifiers attached to the underlying ITextBuffer.

Most properties and parameters that are doubles correspond to coordinates or distances in the text rendering coordinate system. In this coordinate system, x = 0.0 corresponds to the left edge of the drawing surface onto which text is rendered (x = view.ViewportLeft corresponds to the left edge of the viewport), and y = view.ViewportTop corresponds to the top edge of the viewport. The x-coordinate increases from left to right, and the y-coordinate increases from top to bottom.

The horizontal and vertical axes of the view behave differently. When the text in the view is formatted, only the visible lines are formatted. As a result, a viewport cannot be scrolled horizontally and vertically in the same way.

A viewport is scrolled horizontally by changing the left coordinate of the viewport so that it moves with respect to the drawing surface.

A view can be scrolled vertically only by performing a new layout.

Doing a layout in the view may cause the ViewportTop property of the view to change. For example, scrolling down one line will not translate any of the visible lines. Instead it will simply change the view's ViewportTop property (causing the lines to move on the screen even though their y-coordinates have not changed).

Distances in the text rendering coordinate system correspond to logical pixels. If the text rendering surface is displayed without any scaling transform, then 1 unit in the text rendering coordinate system corresponds to one pixel on the display.

Properties

BufferGraph	Gets the IBufferGraph that contains the set of source buffers that contribute to this view.
Caret	Gets the caret element.
HasAggregateFocus	Determines whether the view or any of its adornments has focus.
InLayout	Determines whether the view is in the process of being laid out.
IsClosed	Determines whether this text view has been closed.
IsMouseOverViewOrAdornments	Determines whether the mouse is over the view or any of its adornments.
LineHeight	Gets the nominal height of a line of text in the view.
MaxTextRightCoordinate	Gets the right coordinate of the longest line, whether or not that line is currently visible, in logical pixels.
Options	Gets the options for this text view.
Properties	The collection of properties controlled by the property owner. (Inherited from IPropertyOwner)
ProvisionalTextHighlight	Gets the span of text covered by the provisional text highlight.
Roles	The roles which this view plays. Roles partially determine the extensions that are instantiated for the view.
Selection	Gets the selection element.
TextBuffer	Gets the ITextBuffer whose text is rendered in this view.
TextDataModel	Gets the ITextDataModel of this text view.
TextSnapshot	Gets the ITextSnapshot of the text that is currently rendered in the view.
TextViewLines	Gets a read-only list of the ITextViewLine objects rendered in this view.
TextViewModel	Gets the ITextViewModel of this text view.
ViewportBottom	Gets the position of the bottom edge of the viewport in the text rendering coordinate system.
ViewportHeight	Gets the height of the visible content window in logical pixels.
ViewportLeft	Gets or sets the position of the left edge of the viewport in the text rendering coordinate system.
ViewportRight	Gets the position of the right edge of the viewport in the text rendering coordinate system.
ViewportTop	Gets the position of the top edge of the viewport in the text rendering coordinate system.
ViewportWidth	Gets the width of the visible content window in logical pixels.
ViewScroller	Gets a helper that provides various methods to scroll or manipulate the view.
VisualSnapshot	Gets the ITextSnapshot of the visual buffer that is being rendered.

Methods

Close()	Closes the text view and its view.
DisplayTextLineContainingBufferPosition(SnapshotPoint, Double, ViewRelativePosition)	Formats and displays the contents of the text buffer so that the ITextViewLine containing `bufferPosition` is displayed at the desired position.
DisplayTextLineContainingBufferPosition(SnapshotPoint, Double, ViewRelativePosition, Nullable<Double>, Nullable<Double>)	Formats and displays the contents of the text buffer so that the ITextViewLine containing `bufferPosition` is displayed at the desired position.
GetTextElementSpan(SnapshotPoint)	Gets the SnapshotSpan of text that constitutes a text element (a single visual representation) at the given SnapshotPoint.
GetTextViewLineContainingBufferPosition(SnapshotPoint)	Gets the ITextViewLine that contains the specified text buffer position.
QueueSpaceReservationStackRefresh()	Requests a refresh of the space reservation stack.

Events

Closed	Occurs immediately after the text view is closed.
GotAggregateFocus	Occurs when the keyboard focus switches to the view or one of its adornments.
LayoutChanged	Occurs whenever the text displayed in the view changes.
LostAggregateFocus	Occurs when the keyboard focus switches away from the view and any of its adornments.
MouseHover	Occurs when the mouse has hovered over the same character.
ViewportHeightChanged	Occurs when the viewport's height is changed.
ViewportLeftChanged	Occurs when the position of the viewport's left edge is changed. (e.g. when the view is horizontally scrolled)
ViewportWidthChanged	Occurs when the viewport's width is changed.

Extension Methods

GetInOuterLayout(ITextView)	Determines whether a view is in the process of being laid out or is preparing to be laid out.
GetMultiSelectionBroker(ITextView)	Gets an object for managing selections within the view.
IsEmbeddedTextView(ITextView)	Gets whether given ITextView is embedded in another ITextView.
QueuePostLayoutAction(ITextView, Action)	See QueuePostLayoutAction(Action).
TryGetContainingTextView(ITextView, ITextView)	Gets containing ITextView for given embedded ITextView.
TryGetTextViewLineContainingBufferPosition(ITextView, SnapshotPoint, ITextViewLine)	See TryGetTextViewLineContainingBufferPosition(SnapshotPoint, ITextViewLine).
TryGetTextViewLines(ITextView, ITextViewLineCollection)	See TryGetTextViewLines(ITextViewLineCollection).

Applies to