Codejock Developer Community : SOLVED: Force string to full view http://forum.codejock.com/ Copyright (c) 2006-2013 Web Wiz Forums - All Rights Reserved. Fri, 15 May 2026 06:33:12 +0000 Sat, 26 Jul 2008 03:40:24 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Web Wiz Forums 12.04 360 forum.codejock.com/RSS_post_feed.asp?TID=11558 <![CDATA[Codejock Developer Community]]> http://forum.codejock.com/forum_images/codejock-logo.gif http://forum.codejock.com/ <![CDATA[SOLVED: Force string to full view : Hi Jason, Would be nice if...]]> http://forum.codejock.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=11558&PID=38915&title=solved-force-string-to-full-view#38915 Author: Aaron
Subject: 11558
Posted: 26 July 2008 at 3:40am

Hi Jason,
 
Would be nice if this would work. For the autoresizing of multiline items issue, we have a property already: MultiLinesCount , so if set to 3 resize only for 3 lines  I think CJ is preparing Markup for propitems as well  so than we don't need it anymore, we will make our own DrawTextWordBreak hehehe.
 
Thanks
 
]]> Sat, 26 Jul 2008 03:40:24 +0000 http://forum.codejock.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=11558&PID=38915&title=solved-force-string-to-full-view#38915 <![CDATA[SOLVED: Force string to full view : Hi Aaron, I did try your string,...]]> http://forum.codejock.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=11558&PID=38899&title=solved-force-string-to-full-view#38899 Author: jpbro
Subject: 11558
Posted: 25 July 2008 at 11:33am

Hi Aaron,

I did try your string, and it *almost* works. I think the code isuseful for illustrating a problem with the CJ word wrapping - it onlysplits at space characters. This may just be the behaviour of theDrawText/DrawTextEx API though (if that is what CJ uses to draw thetext to the screen), so I wonder if there is much they can do about itthough.

The code is also useful for illustrating another problem - when a row is selected DrawTextWordBreak is ignored.

Personally, I think that VariableItemsHeight=True should mean just that- that each row can have its own height, but not be automaticallycalculated. If a user types 10 lines of text, I might only want to show3 (for  example). But it would be very useful if the PropertyGridItemhad an AutoHeight property (or similar). When True the row would besized to fit the text. Of course this would require properword-breaking at not just spaces, but also slashes, dashes, (others?).


]]> Fri, 25 Jul 2008 11:33:02 +0000 http://forum.codejock.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=11558&PID=38899&title=solved-force-string-to-full-view#38899 <![CDATA[SOLVED: Force string to full view : Hi Jason, Thanks for reply,...]]> http://forum.codejock.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=11558&PID=38888&title=solved-force-string-to-full-view#38888 Author: Aaron
Subject: 11558
Posted: 25 July 2008 at 6:30am

Hi Jason,
 
Thanks for reply, if you put in a string as I showed in the first post it won't work, so this isn't helping me. I expect, when setting VariableHeight to True, the griditem would be resized to it's contents and NOT have to do a lot of calculating. But it doesn't work at all, even with DrawTextWordBreak, so why bother  
 
Thanks again
]]> Fri, 25 Jul 2008 06:30:22 +0000 http://forum.codejock.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=11558&PID=38888&title=solved-force-string-to-full-view#38888 <![CDATA[SOLVED: Force string to full view : Hi Aaron,Here&#039;s a sample...]]> http://forum.codejock.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=11558&PID=38867&title=solved-force-string-to-full-view#38867 Author: jpbro
Subject: 11558
Posted: 24 July 2008 at 5:09pm

Hi Aaron,

Here's a sample that *almost* works. I've noticed something that appears to be a bug however. The PropertyGridItem ignores the DrawTextWordBreak format when the item has focus. 

Also, I can't get the line count to match the word break exactly in all cases...my fudge number 5 can show 2 lines when only 1 is required when the text is near the edge of the first line (without wrapping). However changing it to 4 is worse (the wrapping can occur, but there is not enough space to show all of the item text).

Lastly, it appears that the wrapping doesn't properly occur in the control when you get over 2 lines with a long string with no spaces (like you path...maybe a bug in the control).

You can try the attached example and see if you have more success.

uploads/20080724_170827_PropGridItemRes.zip
]]> Thu, 24 Jul 2008 17:09:45 +0000 http://forum.codejock.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=11558&PID=38867&title=solved-force-string-to-full-view#38867 <![CDATA[SOLVED: Force string to full view : Hey Aaron,If you set the VariableItemsHeight...]]> http://forum.codejock.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=11558&PID=38866&title=solved-force-string-to-full-view#38866 Author: jpbro
Subject: 11558
Posted: 24 July 2008 at 4:12pm

Hey Aaron,

If you set the VariableItemsHeight property of the PropertyGrid to True, you can set the Item.Height to some multiple of the TextHeight (say 3 lines). The for the item you want to show the full text for, set the ValueMetrics.DrawTextFormat = DrawTextWordBreak. (I've tested this for PropertyItemString only).

It should be possible to do the math for the required height for a particular width, but I haven't looked into if events exist that would allow us to dynamically set the height to always fit the full text when the PropertyGrid or Splitter is resized...I'll look into it.

And in Oleg's defence, I didn't understand exactly what you were looking for at first either :) Hope I interpreted it correctly.

]]> Thu, 24 Jul 2008 16:12:40 +0000 http://forum.codejock.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=11558&PID=38866&title=solved-force-string-to-full-view#38866 <![CDATA[SOLVED: Force string to full view : Yes or No And please...]]> http://forum.codejock.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=11558&PID=38830&title=solved-force-string-to-full-view#38830 Author: Aaron
Subject: 11558
Posted: 24 July 2008 at 7:52am

 
Yes or No
 
 
And please don't be so difficult, you know exactly what I mean.
]]> Thu, 24 Jul 2008 07:52:26 +0000 http://forum.codejock.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=11558&PID=38830&title=solved-force-string-to-full-view#38830 <![CDATA[SOLVED: Force string to full view : Seriosuly can&#039;t catch it....]]> http://forum.codejock.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=11558&PID=38829&title=solved-force-string-to-full-view#38829 Author: Oleg
Subject: 11558
Posted: 24 July 2008 at 7:43am

Seriosuly can't catch it.
To show full string in PropertyItemString you need resize your propertry grid to fit string's wdith. What else?
]]> Thu, 24 Jul 2008 07:43:34 +0000 http://forum.codejock.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=11558&PID=38829&title=solved-force-string-to-full-view#38829 <![CDATA[SOLVED: Force string to full view : Hi Oleg If I wanted to know...]]> http://forum.codejock.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=11558&PID=38818&title=solved-force-string-to-full-view#38818 Author: Aaron
Subject: 11558
Posted: 24 July 2008 at 5:29am

Hi Oleg
 
If I wanted to know that, my question would be: Is it possible to see the full string when hovering the item?
 
Please, look at the question again. If you don't see question properly, use MS Magnifier again
 
Thanks again
]]> Thu, 24 Jul 2008 05:29:30 +0000 http://forum.codejock.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=11558&PID=38818&title=solved-force-string-to-full-view#38818 <![CDATA[SOLVED: Force string to full view : Hi, User can see full string...]]> http://forum.codejock.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=11558&PID=38813&title=solved-force-string-to-full-view#38813 Author: Oleg
Subject: 11558
Posted: 24 July 2008 at 4:59am

Hi,
User can see full string if hover over its value in tooltip....
]]> Thu, 24 Jul 2008 04:59:09 +0000 http://forum.codejock.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=11558&PID=38813&title=solved-force-string-to-full-view#38813 <![CDATA[SOLVED: Force string to full view : Hi, I want to see the full...]]> http://forum.codejock.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=11558&PID=38802&title=solved-force-string-to-full-view#38802 Author: Aaron
Subject: 11558
Posted: 24 July 2008 at 2:50am

Hi,
 
I want to see the full string in a PropertyItemString or PropertyItemMultilineString, is this possible?
 
Example string = C:\Program Files\Codejock Software\ActiveX\Xtreme SuitePro ActiveX V12.0\Samples\ReportControl\VB\ReportSample\Icons
 
Thanks
 
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