How do you get the character clicked on?

[MarkBrainfire]

In WinUI 3 you can use the TextPointer.GetCharacterRect method to build an array of hit boxes for the text in a TextBlock.
A RichTextBlock has built-in functionality to do this.

But Uno doesn't appear to support any way to get the character clicked on in displayed text?

Is there some way I don't know about? This is ESSENTIAL to my application.

Mark

[FrozDark]

You may able to implement this with https://github.com/toptensoftware/RichTextKit as I did on Xamarin.Forms

[MarkBrainfire]

Thank for your reply FrozDark.

This is amazing to me. After all these years Uno Platform can't tell what text a user clicks on? Unbelievable!

[jeromelaban]

Thanks for the report!

This is indeed not implemented at this time. Uno is progressing as per the requests from the community and clients that are driving the backlog. If a feature is not there yet, it means that it's not been requested much or is a part of a much larger change that has not been prioritized yet.

If you can open an issue with a sample of what you're trying to do, it will help prioritizing it.

[limeniye]

Hello, @MarkBrainfire.
Did you tried the IsTextSelectionEnabled for MarkdownTextBlock? Is that good alternative of your expectations?

private void MarkdownText_CodeBlockResolving(object sender, CodeBlockResolvingEventArgs e)
{
    if (e.CodeLanguage == "CUSTOM")
    {
        e.Handled = true;
        e.InlineCollection.Add(new Run { Foreground = new SolidColorBrush(Colors.Red), Text = e.Text, FontWeight = FontWeights.Bold });
    }
}