I have a CheckedListBox in my Windows forms application, but items can be added that are to wide for the control to display. Is there any way to have the text wrap to the next line when this occurs?
I know with a standard ListBox this would not work, since it would be hard to tell the difference between the second line of one item and the next item. But with a CheckedListBox the beginning of the items in the list are defined by the CheckBox, so it should be easy to differentiate between items.
Is this possible? Will I have to create my own control (Again)?
The CheckedListBox does not support this, but you can use a DataGridView with two columns (checkbox column, text column) to achieve this with very little effort.
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I'm developing windows metro app. In my application, I've one Listview with wrapgrid in itemspanel to display list of items on vertical rows with specific height. I want to display one item on top of the first column of list view, which shows result/stats of list items.
I would like to know if it is possible without adding custom item to datasource of listview?
ListView has a Header property in which you can Place content before the ListViews Items.
As commented, I've implemented following solution which is not elegant but worked for me.
Use Datasource converter to add dummy item in main list. So, my original list remains as is.
Use Template Selector to bind different template for first item.
Handle Selection and clicked event of dummy item.
I am trying to look for a simple way to design a winform with a combobox that has checkbox values in it to select multiple values.
But there are no free samples I could find.
If anybody has a good link for a sample which does not require a license.
Please let me know.
I am not looking for controls like telerik and infragistics.
Maybe this example can help you.
CheckBox ComboBox Extending the ComboBox Class and Its Items
It sounds like what you really want is a checked listbox control or maybe even just a listbox. These controls do multi-select in a way that is more standard for Windows.
If you really need a combo box with checkboxes in it, here's an article on code project I used once.
My suggestion, if space is an issue as #rmc00 has eluded to, place a button at the end of a readonly Textbox with perhaps an elipse (...) or down arrow (same as combobox) as the text of the button and when clicked or MouseDown make visible and position a CheckBoxList or open a popup dialog with a CheckBoxList this way you can either prepopulate at design time or pass a DataTable as a parameter/property to your control/form so it is databound at runtime. You can always place your control or write code to position the control/form exactly below your TextBox in the MouseDown/Click event. On check change update your textbox with a comma separated list (or go fancy and say if more than 3 items the text box can have the list stored in the Tag and the TextBox Text can have the count of items checked). Finally on LostFocus hide the Control (or Form), and further if you want to get fancy make the exception to not hide when the ActiveControl is the Button that way you can toggle the visibility of consecutive button presses.
Am having a list box item template, using wrap panel in container to show as three column listbox. working well. now the issue is, i have to capture the selection change only when user clicks on the second column.
is it possible to set the selection area in listbox?
I don't think it is possible to somehow raise selection change event only when the second or third column is selected. One thing you can do is keep last selected column index in a variable and inside your selection change event judge whether the new selected item belongs to same column or not if it doesn't simply ignore the change
I agree with Haris, I don't think it it possible. You should be able to use the mouse down event and then in code figure out the selection index from that. You could possibly use LINQ on the list box's ItemSource and find the match or use the Tag property of the item.
I'm trying to accomplish what should be a very simple task using the ListView Control. All I am trying to do is add two Items to a ListView Control. One Item goes under the "Title" Column and the other Item goes under the "Status" Column. I have seen many examples for the ListView Control and none of them cover this particular need.
I've read the MSDN documentation on the ListView Control and find it rather odd they don't mention this... Or maybe I've overlooked it?
In ListView parlance, these are not separate items. It sounds like you want to add one item, and then what ListView calls a subitem. Assuming that Title is your first column and Status your second, you want:
ListViewItem myItem = listView.Items.Add("My Item's Title");
myItem.SubItems.Add("My Item's Status");
If you are just getting started with a ListView, you can save yourself a lot of time, headaches and frustration by using ObjectListView -- an open source wrapper around .NET WinForms ListView.
It solves many problems that you are going to find while trying to use a ListView, as well as just making it much easier to use. Just one example: it automatically handles sorting rows by clicking on column headers.
I created a ListView programmatically. I set the FullRowSelect option as true. After adding the elements to the ListView, if I start selecting the items, the row which is
currently selected is highlighted with a blue color. How can I disable the highlighting? I want to stop the highlighting of an item on its selection, but want FullRowSelect to be true.
Also, if I select an item, I want to change the color of the item so that anyone can easily identify which item is selected.
The only way to really control the display of items in a list is to use ownerdraw. This approach is not exposed in .NET, so will mean overriding the creation and WinProc of the list (at least).
Another option might be WPF, much of the styling of controls being overridable.