Question

I have a FlowDocument in which I need to insert many fragments of dynamic text at arbitrary positions.

For example, I need to place text “Hello” at x = 10, y = 15 and text “World” at x = 10, y = 20.

I’m currently doing this using Figure. I create a Run with the text, put it in a Paragraph, and put all that in a Figure. From there I can set it’s VerticalOffset and HorizontalOffset. Then I place all the figures in a Paragraph which I add to the FlowDocument.

Everything was going OK (it was the simplest approach I could came up) until I had to place two or three fragments of text on the same line (at the same y but different x).

For some reason it’s putting each Figure on a new line instead of putting them all in the same line, let me illustrate:

Expected:

text1      text2                             text3

Actual:

text1
              text2
                                                  text3

Does anybody know how to remove that line break between figures? If you have a better approach to this problem I’m open to suggestions too.

Answer 1

I ditched FlowDocument and went with XAML and used a Canvas… made my life much easier being able to place all text fields visually… much easier to maintain in the long run too.