PropertyGrid Text Properties

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I have taken over an application which uses the property grid. There are a couple of text properties which when I use the left and right arrow keys, instead of moving the text cursor left and right, moves focus to the previous / next property.

I have tried handling the KeyPress, KeyDown etc events but apparently these aren't implemented by microsoft. More accurately the key events from the PropertyGrids internal grid are not exposed publicly.

I have also tried creating an internal class TextEditor : UITypeEditor in order to provide my own text box but I am unsure how to get this to work. In particular the UITypeEditorStyle enum has three values none of which seem appropriate for an in-grid TextBox. There are lots of examples of doing this with dropdown lists and popup forms but not in-grid Textboxes.

All I really want is to allow the users to move the cursor left and right in the Property Grid text properties.

Anyone have any suggestions?

Posted 10-Dec-09 1:10am

GemmaKaru

Updated 10-Feb-10 5:30am

Toli Cuturicu

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Member 1482653 · Answer 1 · 2010-02-12T03:00:00

Hi, I haven't details about your problem but use this method for texteditor in keydown events like this:

C#

if(e.KeyCode == Keys.Right)
    this.SelectNextControl(Txt_Price, true, true, true, true);

For customcontrol use ParentForm for this:

C#

if(e.KeyCode == Keys.Right)
    ParentForm.SelectNextControl(object, true, true, true, true);

Don't forget to sort tabstop property.
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