TX Text Control .NET Server

DocumentTarget Object

Object|Introduced in 28.0

Description

The DocumentTarget object represents a text position in a Text Control document that is a target of a document link.

Syntax

DocumentTarget

Examples

The following example demonstrates DocumentTarget in a practical document-editing workflow. The DocumentTarget object represents a text position in a Text Control document that is a target of a document link.

function onTxError(error) {
    console.error("TX Text Control error:", error.msg);
    error.handled = true;
}

TXTextControl.textParts.getMainText(function(mainText) {
    const documentTargets = mainText.documentTargets;
    documentTargets.getItem(function(documentTarget) {
        if (!documentTarget) {
            console.warn("No document target is available at the current input position.");
            return;
        }
    
        documentTarget.getID(
            function(result) {
                console.log("get id result:", result);
            },
            onTxError
        );
    }, onTxError);
}, onTxError);

Members

Methods

Method	Description
getAutoGenerationType	Gets the type of auto-generation. A document target which is the target of an entry in a table of contents is automatically generated when the table of contents is inserted into the document.
getDeleteable	Gets whether a document target can be deleted by the end-user while a TX Text Control document is being edited.
getID	Gets an identifier for a document target.
getName	Relates a user-defined name to a document target.
getNumber	Gets the one-based number of the document target in the document.
getStart	Gets the first character position (one-based) of a document target.
getTargetName	Gets the name of the document target.
scrollTo	Sets the current input position to the beginning of the document target and scrolls it into the visible part of the document.
setDeleteable	Sets whether a document target can be deleted by the end-user while a TX Text Control document is being edited.
setID	Sets an identifier for the document target.
setName	Sets the name of a document target.
setTargetName	Sets the name of the document target.