In WPF, when I enter some text in combobox, it will highlight the item starting with the text I entered. This highlighting will search the whole text i have entered in the combo box. But instead i want the text search to match only the first letter. How to do this?
Actually, I want to make TextSearch.Text to be always first character.
Ive done something similar to this. Found a sort of howto on a blog post, dont have the link saved but did a new search now and found this, which (from my memory) looks quite similar.
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I have one ComboBox which is populated on load from populate.txt file. I'm using streamreader for this. So far it works. The ComboBox is properly populated with:
- one
- two
- three
I have one empty TextBox, and a button.
The thing that I'm trying to do is:
Select something from the ComboBox i.e. "one"
Write in the TextBox i.e "50"
Press the button, and to populate the DataGridView first row with:
"One"(cell0) "50"(cell1)
At this point, a new empty row should be automatically added below the filled one. I've searched and searched for hours to no avail. So I decided to make an account and ask the question :)
The reason I'm doing this is that, later on I'll export the filled DataGridView.
I could easily use labels for this, but that's not what I'm aiming for. I'm trying to "dive in" into the more complicated "stuff".
I hope that I explained well enough.
I have an msoControlComboBox item in an Outlook 2007 command bar. I am able to add items to the combo box dropdown, and if the user types something in the textbox that matches the beginning of any words in the dropdown, then the combobox suggests the rest of the word, inside the text box.
I would like to do a little better than that.
I would like to be able to detect keypress events, and add/remove items from the dropdown list based on the characters the user has entered so far.
I would also like to be able to dropdown the list programatically (right now the only to drop it down appears for the user to click on the dropdown arrow).
Is there a way to accomplish these two objectives (in c#).
There is no out of the box microsoft control that can do it.
You aren't the first person to want this however and I personally used a control found here and found it to be a good starting point for my needs. It's aimed at finding in email addresses but it can be adapted to other needs. It uses regexp searches to find matches
I'm building a Windows Form that includes a combo box control, and I wanted to put a horizontal line between certain items. I've seen this done in other contexts using a hyphen in an item list, but a hyphen doesn't do this in this case. I don't know if a horizontal line is even possible with this control. What I am trying to accomplish is something like:
Item 1
Item 2
Item 3
_________________
Item A
I suppose I could simply put a line of hyphens in there, but a nice clean line would be better if it could be done.
Unfortunately, I have not been able to find anything that comes standard in the control with "clean" solutions yet.
I found something where you can draw the line between every item at this link. With some fancy work you may be able to find a way of making it draw the line only when you want to.
Alternatively, there is a CodeProject combobox that includes line separators.
I was thinking of ways to implement a generic View search. What I mean here is say a Window has many controls (including usercontrols,customcontrols, etc). I want to implement a generic search box on the top of window which searches any Text in the window and highlight them.
I wanted to know is there a generic way of doing this or has anyone tried such UI based search.
I was searching through internet and found some nice links like below::
http://khason.net/blog/search-and-highlight-any-text-on-wpf-rendered-page/ which says search and highlight any Text in WPF rendered page but it doesnt work when there are lot of UserControls and CustomControls.
I myself did some research and thought of going through the VisualTree,LogicalTree, etc but I did not find them satisfactory.
Some say do it using attached behaviors or by data binding but that also did not help me. Because even if i achieved search using this technique, the problem is highlighting. Say there are 4 TextBoxes having different background colors and I highlight background to Yellow when Text is found, I have no way of removing the highlighting when Text is not found because I don't know the previous background color of TextBox.
Ok , enough of my thoughts. I would like to simply accept I am going nowhere in my thoughts. So people I want some guidance in implementing UI search. Also if you people can tell me how I can make it generic, it will be useful!!
I have a list that the user can filter in several ways. two of which lend themselves to combo boxes and two that need to accept user input. For example, one textbox allows the user to type in any part of a list item's description, and the dialog will only present items whose description contains the text entered.
It is a dialog 'picker' type of window, so space is at a premium. I'd like for the text boxes not to require a traditional label. Instead, when the dialog is first invoked, the label (ie, "Description") is grayed out, centered, and in italics. Maybe a tool tip to further make it obvious to the user what it's for. When the user starts to type, the faux label disappears and the entered text is normal left aligned text.
Does wpf / silverlight have any native support for doing something like this? I guess it could be a combination of styles and eventing. I'd rather not invent any wheels that might be out there (I got the idea specifically from looking at Tortoise' "Show Log" window, but I've seen it before).
Does anyone have any sample code they can share to do this? Or a an alternative idea that also saves space and simplifies the layout?
Cheers,
Berryl
Kevin Moore's InfoTextBox, which is part of his Bag-O-Tricks is the kind of thing I was looking for, almost exactly. This is also the 'watermark' (great name - I would have found this sooner if I had known that) text box from another post.