CXTPPropertyGridInplaceEdit select all?

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   Hello,

We have a propertygrid that creates inplace edit items when you click on one of the fields to edit the text. This works all great and fine, except that when the user clicks on one of cells, they'd like it to automatically select all the text in the field for ease of editting, rather than having to manually select it themselves. Sounds simple enough...

But no matter where I"m putting the SetSel(0, -1), something later on is overridding that, and unhighlighting the text (I can even see it highlight the text if I put breakpoints right after my SetSel). I've been at it for a few days and can't figure out where in code it would undo this.

Any help?

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cheez0r Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Newbie Joined: 10 June 2009 Status: Offline Points: 1	Post Options Post Reply Quote cheez0r Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Topic: CXTPPropertyGridInplaceEdit select all? Posted: 10 June 2009 at 2:08pm
	Hello, We have a propertygrid that creates inplace edit items when you click on one of the fields to edit the text. This works all great and fine, except that when the user clicks on one of cells, they'd like it to automatically select all the text in the field for ease of editting, rather than having to manually select it themselves. Sounds simple enough... But no matter where I"m putting the SetSel(0, -1), something later on is overridding that, and unhighlighting the text (I can even see it highlight the text if I put breakpoints right after my SetSel). I've been at it for a few days and can't figure out where in code it would undo this. Any help?

znakeeye Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Senior Member Joined: 26 July 2006 Status: Offline Points: 1672	Post Options Post Reply Quote znakeeye Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 06 August 2009 at 8:55am
	Not sure if this will help (I'm guessing now), but try changing the style of the edit control: ES_NOHIDESEL Negates the default behavior for an edit control. The default behavior hides the selection when the control loses the input focus and inverts the selection when the control receives the input focus. If you specify ES_NOHIDESEL, the selected text is inverted, even if the control does not have the focus.
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dennisV Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Senior Member Joined: 07 October 2004 Location: Australia Status: Offline Points: 242	Post Options Post Reply Quote dennisV Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 15 December 2009 at 1:42am
	I have the same issue - did you get it solved? BTW, changing the style doesn't seem to work, at least like so: ((CXTPPropertyGridItem*)pItem)->SetEditStyle(WS_CHILD \| ES_AUTOHSCROLL \| ES_NOHIDESEL);
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dennisV Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Senior Member Joined: 07 October 2004 Location: Australia Status: Offline Points: 242	Post Options Post Reply Quote dennisV Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 31 January 2010 at 4:03pm
	This has been solved through support (Mark Doubson). The way it can be done is like this: BOOL CXTPPropertyGridItem::OnLButtonDown(UINT nFlags, CPoint point) { if ((m_nFlags & xtpGridItemHasEdit) && PtInValueRect(point)) { mouse_event(GetSystemMetrics(SM_SWAPBUTTON) ? MOUSEEVENTF_RIGHTDOWN : MOUSEEVENTF_LEFTDOWN, 0, 0, 0, 0); return FALSE; //dirty way to select all on one click } return TRUE; } Also, to enable selection when you click on the left side of the item (the item name) or when you use the keyboard to navigate: LRESULT CPropertyGridDlg::OnGridNotify(WPARAM wParam, LPARAM lParam) { if (wParam == XTP_PGN_SELECTION_CHANGED) { CXTPPropertyGridItem* pItem = (CXTPPropertyGridItem)lParam; if (pItem) { if (pItem->IsKindOf(RUNTIME_CLASS(CXTPPropertyGridItemNumber))) { CXTPPropertyGridItemNumber pItemNumber = (CXTPPropertyGridItemNumber*) pItem; if (pItemNumber->GetInplaceEdit().GetSafeHwnd() != NULL) { pItemNumber->GetInplaceEdit().SetSel(0, -1); pItemNumber->GetInplaceEdit().SetFocus(); } } } }
	// W7 64 Ultimate SP1 // VS 2008 // CodeJock 16.2.3 (MFC)