I want to use comobox which is editable in my silverlight project, but silverlight doesnt provide a such control.
If any one knows how to create a custom editable combobox in silvelight 4.0 then please help me.
Editable combobox means:
A combo box providing list of
options.
User can enter the value.
Filtering.
Sounds like you are looking for the AutoCompleteBox.
Allows user to type value
Can simply dropdown like a combox
Partial value typed can be used to filter choices using either StartsWith or Contains mode.
Supports a create new entry operation if the final typed value does not match any existing entry
This control is part of the standard SDK and is found in the System.Windows.Controls.Input.dll. You should be able to drag it from the toolbox.
You can also have a look Lookup Combo Box
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I'd like to have a combobox where there is a lot of information in the list to select from or search but only parts of it are shown after selection.
For example when the user starts typing "raf" the combobox should show a list like this:
RA - Raffael (raffael#example.com)
HU - Hugo (hugo#rafferty.xyz)
After selecting the entry "Raffael" only "RA" should be shown in the combobox.
I need that because of the limited space for the combobox in my application. So the combobox should not be wider than needed to hold some characters but the list to select from may be much wider. Is there an easy way to achieve that? Or which function i have to overwrite in combobox to set the text line after the selection?
Thanks
This is not possible with a standard Vaadin ComboBox without custom client side coding.
I'm using infragistics WPF editors and XamComboEditor. In previous WinForms version there was MRU list capability. What it basically does is it displays list of most recently used items at the beginning of the list and separates those items with some separator (which cannot be selected). Regular list of combo box items follows after this separator.
Now, infragistics combo does not provide this functionallity. I'll have to develop it on my own and the question is how to approach this. My biggest concern is how to modify current combo box (it can be regular wpf one) to actually display it.
Any suggestions are welcome.
To handle the actual UI part you can use CollectionViewSource/ICollectionView's Grouping and optionally Sorting (if you want the MRU to be ordered) to modify the ComboBox's view of the collection. Most of the work is going to be setting up the data which will be specific to your situation but all you'll need to do in the UI after you're bound to a grouped ICollectionView is set a GroupStyle on the ComboBox where you probably want to show a separator only for the non-MRU group and nothing for the MRU.
I need to be able to have a SelectionBoxItemTemplate for my ComboBox, but am unsure how to do this or if there is another way in Silverlight 3.0 to do this.
In my drop-down list I have a List of CheckBoxes, and TextBlocks, this works fine,
however the Selected Item is one of these when I click on it, i.e. the Checkbox shows in the top of the Combobox, I don't want this, instead I want it to say "Display", as this is a list of display settings, how can the ComboBox be changed to allow this in Silverlight?
This is not actually possible in Silverlight 3, although the Property can be read, it cannot be sent, marking this as answer, but hope Silverlight 4.0 will support this.
I want to create a combobox with some style. I dont want old dropdown what we are getting. I want some new dropdown which looks very nice. Is there any way to create a dropdown like that.
Plz give me suggestions
Check this link out on msdn. This is the actual control template for the combo box. You can copy and paste this into your application (within your app's Resources).
Create a form and slap a combo box on it with some data in it. Then start changing the control template and view the results. Start off simply by changing colors and adding borders around elements to see what controls which part. Then you can start switching out larger parts of the template to match what you're looking for.
one can start with the standard combobox, and then use various controls and styles to change the look and feel of the control, and it's corresponding drop down.
does anyone know about a windows forms control that acts like the address bar of a browser?
it is just like a textbox, but to the right there is a dropdown menu that shows the history of previously entered text.
thanks a lot!
Look at properties "AutoCompleteCustomSource", "AutoCompleteMode" and "AutoCompletesource" on TextBox class.
You can use a ComboBox for this. Just add the previous entries to the item list. If what you actually want is AutoComplete, the WinForms TextBox control supports that natively.