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TCustomRichView.Clear

Clears the document.

procedure Clear; virtual;

This method:

▪deletes all items;

▪turns off displaying soft page breaks;

▪clears DocProperties;

▪stops live spelling check;

▪stops animations, if AnimationMode = rvaniOnFormat.

This method does not change collections of text, paragraph and list styles. So, if your application adds styles while editing, call DeleteUnusedStyles after Clear.

Method type: generally, it's a viewer-style method, but it is special, because it clears all editing and displaying history. It is a starting method for document generation.

This method is called by the methods: LoadRVF, LoadRVFFromStream.

See also methods:

▪Format.

See also method of TRichViewEdit:

▪Clear.

See also:

▪Methods for building documents.