Background and motivation

In my app I need to get the character index from the mouse position. Even though I don't need the capabilities of a TextBox, because TextBlock does not have a method like GetCharacterIndexFromPoint, I need to use the TextBox control instead. The issue is my app creates lots of TextBoxes (which could have been TextBlocks if a TextBlock supported the aforementioned method) and a TextBox is more resource hungry than a TextBlock. So I'd like to avoid paying the price of a TextBox unnecessarily.

API Proposal

public int GetCharacterIndexFromPoint (System.Windows.Point point, bool snapToText);

API Usage

TextBlock textBlock = new();
int characterPosition = textBlock.GetCharacterIndexFromPoint(Mouse.GetPosition(textBlock), false);

Alternative Designs

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Risks

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