TextController

Atalasoft.Controls.WebDocumentViewer~ TextController

new TextController()

WebDocumentViewer Text Layer operations API.

Classes

TextSearchIterator

Methods

clearSelection()

Clears all text selection for the document.

copySelected()

Copies selected text to clipboard. This method don't depend on TextMouseToolConfig.hookcopy config option, i.e. text will be copied if ctrl+c copying is disabled for user.

getPageText(index, successopt, failopt)

Returns all text for the specified page.

Parameters:
Name Type Description
index number

Index of the page to retrieve text.
[success] GetPageTextCallback

function that that is called when page text is loaded and formatted.
[fail] NotificationCallback

Function that that is called when page text load is failed.

getSelected() → {string}

Retrieves the selected text.

Returns:

Selected text. Line break is inserted after each line and region.

Type
string

isPageTextLoaded(index)

Indicates whether page text is loaded.

Parameters:
Name Type Description
index number

Index of the page to check text data state.

reloadPageText(index, successopt, failopt)

Forcibly triggers page text load.

Parameters:
Name Type Description
index number

Index of the page to reset text data.
[success] LoadPageTextCallback

Function that that is called when page text is loaded successfully.
[fail] LoadPageTextCallback

Function that that is called when page text load is failed.

resetPageText(indexopt)

Marks page text data for reload. After this call text data will be loaded next time page will be inserted into DOM on scrolling. I.e. this method won't triggered immediate text reload, even for visible pages.

Parameters:
Name Type Description
[index] number

Index of the page to reset text data. If not specified whole document text data is reset.

searchOnPages(text, startPageopt, endPageopt, activePageopt, callbackopt)

Triggers text search for the specified pages. This method also triggers UI search behavior - highlight for matched text occurrences selection of current text result and scrolling during text results iteration.

Parameters:
Name Type Description
text string

Text to search for. The text must be at least 3 characters long.
[startPage] number

Index of the page to start search from. If not specified first page in document is assumed to be the first in search.
[endPage] number

Index of the page to end search where. If not specified last page in document is assumed to be the last in search.
[activePage] number

Index of the page from that viewer should start scrolling to the next search result.
[callback] TextSearchCallback

Search callback that receives search results iterator.
Returns:

If callback is specified - search results iterator that allows navigation over search results, otherwise null.

selectPageText(index, regionopt, lineopt, wordopt, successopt, failopt)

Selects all text on the page. Any optional arguments could be omitted and callback could be passed instead of it. This method is intended to select whole page text or to be used in conjunction with text search API when region, line, word indexes are passed to application using search iterator.

Parameters:
Name Type Description
index number

Index of the page to select page on.
[region] number

Index of the region to select.
[line] number

Index of the line to select.
[word] number

Index of the word to select.
[success] NotificationCallback

Function that that is called when page text is loaded and selected.
[fail] NotificationCallback

Function that that is called when page text load is failed.
Example

Search result match object could be used to retrieve region line and word indexes of the match starting object.

<caption> Search text occurrence and automatically select it. Note, that `match.word` is the index of the first word in matched text. If search phrase contain multiple words, only firs will be selected in this example. </caption>
 _viewer.text.search('findme', 0, function (it, match) {
      if (it.isValid()) {
          _viewer.text.selectPageText(match.page, match.region, match.line, match.word);
      }
 });

Triggers text search. This method also triggers UI search behavior - highlight for matched text occurrences selection of current text result and scrolling during text results iteration.

Parameters:
Name Type Description
text string

Text to search for. The text must be at least 3 characters long.
[startPage] number

Index of the page to start search from. If not specified first page in document is assumed to be the first in search.
[callback] TextSearchCallback

Search callback that receives search results iterator.
Deprecated:
Returns:

If callback is specified - search results iterator that allows navigation over search results, otherwise null.