meilcli / crossformattedtext

CrossFormattedText Plugin for Xamarin and Windows

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FeatureRequest: cross-platform .Substring() method for FormattedText

This is a very useful library! Thank you for creating this!
Cross platform management of formatted strings is very hard!
This will help a lot! But I have a feature request: a cross-platform .Substring() method for FormattedText.

REASON: Many times working on .Net/Xamarin cross platforms apps I have the need to extract or replace a SUBSTRING from a FormattedString, while KEEPING the formatting on all platforms.

But if I use methods like myFormattedString.ToString().Substring() or myFormattedString.ToString().Replace(), all the formatting is LOST.

Usually I'm forced to manually split my substrings in chunks and replace letters and substrings going span by span. But that code is long to write, ugly and error prone.

A Substring() or Replace() method working natively on your FormattedText would be awesome.

Once you add those, it would be easy to add other standard String methods like .Insert(), .Split(), .Trim(), .Contains(), .Remove(), .IndexOf(), and so on...

I think that would make your library a must for crossplatform developers! And in the end it will replace the string class completely. Rich text is now necessary in many mobile apps (emoticons, links, bold, etc), and this library that you created is a step in the right direction.

Thank you!

Feature: support modifiable Span reference operator

Now, FormattedString and FormattedStringBuilder's some Span reference is fixed.
Span references are added when some operation.

So, I think add Span reference combine and split operator to FormattedString(or FormattedStringBuilder)

Migrate to C#7.0 and Support discontinuation at some platform

Now use Visual Studio 2015.
C# 7.0 is available in Visual Studio 2017.

But Visual Studio 2017 not support project type:

• Windows phone
• Windows Store

Therefore it only supports the following:

• UWP
• iOS
• Android