RichTextFormat as variable type

Question

I am trying to make a Universal Windows Platform (UWP) program where I have a RichEditBox that allows me to write Richly Formatted Text for several separate objects. I want to be able to click on an object and then display the text associated with that object.

Click on object -> RichEditBox displays the text in RTF (Rich Text Format) of that object.

Click on another object -> RichEditBox now displays the text belonging to the latest object.

Currently I am only able to hold the input as a string, but this loses the formatting of the input (specifically the colors of the words).

How do I hold my input (keep the data in RAM) in a way that allows me to retain the formatting?

Is there a certain variable type I can use?

Answer 1

Found a solution for the Problem. I need to save the input in the RichEditBox as a InMemoryRandomAccessStream.

public sealed partial class MainPage : Page
{
    // The variable to hold the input
    Windows.Storage.Streams.InMemoryRandomAccessStream stream = 
    new Windows.Storage.Streams.InMemoryRandomAccessStream(); 


    public void storeInput()
    {
        RichEditBox.Document.SaveToStream
        (Windows.UI.Text.TextGetOptions.FormatRtf, stream);
    }
}