Is there a way to make long items wrap in a .net windows forms application, I have already got LabelWrap set to true, but it doesn't work, I am using Details View Type,
Thanks
ListView doesn't allow text-wrapping.
What I usually do is set "ShowItemToolTips" property true in such cases. Then user can see the whole text a ToolTip. This is the only simple option I can see with ListView to help in this case.
If you really want to support for text-wrapping you will have to either use a third party ListView or use a DataGridView.
EDIT
If you are using VS2010, Tile View is an option for you.
With the tile view feature of the ListView control, you can provide a
visual balance between graphical and textual information. The textual
information displayed for an item in tile view is the same as the
column information defined for details view. Tile view works in
combination with either the grouping or insertion mark features in the
ListView control.
The LabelWrap property only works for icons (View types of LargeIcon or SmallIcon), not Details. As others have already answered, you have to use DataGridView or a 3rd party listview such as ObjectListView.
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I use DevExpress
I had difficulty managing. I have a GridControl and added cell navigation buttons. That's just the question, how can you implement this code?
There are 4 buttons, among which are: First entry (|<), Previous entry (<), Next entry (>), Last entry (>|). How can you programmatically write these cell movements?
An example of an Access screen, such as this navigation:
My suggestion would be to not write it yourself... use the Dev Express embedded navigator.
If you go to designer view on the grid, go to Feature Browser, Focus, Embedded Navigator and set the UseEmbeddedNavigator property to true.
You can, of course, also do this in the regular property window of your form.
Once you do that, your grid will have it:
I'm currently working on a xamarin app with xamarin forms. I'd like to make a listview with 2 columns : the first one is a simple label but the second one can be either a label, a combo box or an entry. The type will depend on what i get from the web api.
Is there any solution?
Thanks for answers !
I think a solution can be to add in the second column (I think using a Grid) all your controls (a label, a picker....) then set the "IsVisible" Property to a X property present in your Model. If you post your Model it can be useful
I am working on a project in which I am using a property grid to display the properties of the selected control.
The Property Grid is fixed to the left edge of the container and in the rest of the space I have the form I am designing.
On clicking a control on the form, the specific control’s property is getting selected.
In the above figure, I have selected the textbox and the textbox’s properties get shown on the propertygrid.
Here if you observe, by default, the Name property is highlighted as well.
Is there some way to unselect this property programmatically?
I have tried some suggestions online but none have helped. I am not able to find find a way to remove all selections from the PropertyGrid, but its behaviour seem to be different form a DataGrid...
Here is why I need this...
On selecting a control, if a property in the property grid is selected, then the property is getting modified.
For example, If i cut the control using Ctrl + X, the selected value in property grid is getting cut which in some cases is forcing user to set the property before modifying anything on the form.
I have tried selecting multiple controls, but in that case alse the selected property seems to be persistent
Since PropertyGrid uses DefaultProperty to select a property in its grid, as an option you can set DefaultProperty attribute at run-time for your object to a non-browsable property, for example:
this.propertyGrid1.SelectedObject = null;
TypeDescriptor.AddAttributes(someControl,
new Attribute[] { new DefaultPropertyAttribute("Site") });
this.propertyGrid1.SelectedObject = someControl;
Well, what you are trying are hacks. It is never a good idea to do such hacks particularly if you are not the only person that use the software.
In your case, the focus should be on the designer while you interact with it. So if the user press Ctrl+X, the designer should respond to the keyboard and it should not have any effect on the property grid (as only one control can have the focus at the same time).
Thus it is up to you to make sure that your designer is focusable, that it has the focus when initially displayed, that it get the focus when you press the TAB key. Pressing the TAB key again should put the focus on the property grid so that user can interact with the grid without using the keyboard.
If you have more than these 2 controls, then obviously TAB should also stop at any appropriate controls. Also, it can be a good idea to have some direct shortcuts like F4 to (show and) activate the properties pane.
If you are not able to make it works, then the best compromise would be to use another windows for the properties grid. By using a distinct Tool windows for the properties, it should not respond to the keyboard when the main windows has the focus.
Here are some links that might help you:
Panel not getting focus
Control.Focus Method() — See Remarks section.
In any case, you should not prevent Ctrl+X to works as expected when the property grid has the focus and a property is selected. Users don't like software that do not follows UI conventions.
As a software developer, you should as much as possible ensure that your application follows standard behaviors. I recommend you that you take one or 2 extra days developing your software properly instead of doing hacks.
Often, compromise to gain a few days will never be fix and will be a pain for many years. Better to do it right from the start. Unselecting an item in the property grid is not an acceptable workaround. Your manager should not allows you to do that.
I need to implement a radio button logic(multiple possibilities, one choice) with another look and feel.
The look and feel should be similar to this:
Meaning: an image, a title and a small description, no radio button but a border for the selected one.
I want to know if you know any existing components that can do this(in c# or in devexpress library) or if I have to implement this myself.
Thank you!
This looks like a list view, not a radio box. See MSDN help here.
View.Details enumeration:
Each item appears on a separate line with further information about each item arranged in columns. The left-most column contains a small icon and label, and subsequent columns contain sub items as specified by the application. A column displays a header which can display a caption for the column. The user can resize each column at run time.
View.Tile enumeration
Each item appears as a full-sized icon with the item label and subitem information to the right of it. The subitem information that appears is specified by the application. This view is available only on Windows XP and the Windows Server 2003 family. On earlier operating systems, this value is ignored and the ListView control displays in the LargeIcon view.
With RadioButton you can set Appearance=Button, use also Image property.
I finally found the DevExpress SimpleButton components that could do such behavior
With Adobe Flex I would create a custom ItemRenderer to change the display of items in a grid. This executes some code that overrides how the grid control renders items. How do I do this with WPF? What are the performance implications with the techniques available?
My initial aim is to display an icon, a title, and a description. Ideally the description would be under the title. A similar UI is used by the Vista TaskDialog buttons.
Use Data Template. You can set it for ItemTemplate (ListBox), CellTemplate (GridViewColumn), HeaderTemplate, etc.
Performance depends on how complex the template is, but for what you described, you should not notice a difference.