How to define LinkElement ID using IEditManager.applyLink

Question

I'm using code of the form:
IEditManager(_textFlow.interactionManager).applyLink("
http://www.cnn.com");
However, in my underlying markup, I'd like to have something
like this:
<flow:a href="
http://www.cnn.com"
id="myID">My Link here</flow:a>
Since in the latest releases of Gumbo SDK every FlowElement
have IDs, we're using these IDs to track LinkElements which are
later used to fire specific events based on their IDs, when the
TextFlow is in non-editable mode. (we ignore the actual href).
The applyLink method of course takes only a url as string,
but is there a way to add a general LinkElement using the
IEditManager where we could specify the LinkElement ID ? We don't
want to have to directly add LinkElements to the TextFlow because
our current application uses an IEditManager.

Answer 1

I suggest you do it like this psuedo code and combine the
applyLink operation with the ChangeElementIdOperation.
editManager.beginCompositeOperation()
editManager.applyLink(...);
// figure out where the linkElement is
var
idOperation:ChangeElementIdOperation(editManager.selectionState,
linkElement, IdYouWant);
editManager.doOperation(idOperation)
editManager.endCompositeOperation();
This lets you merge multiple operations into a single
undoable unit.
Thanks,
Richard