Markup & Lists - Next release

I agree that something like this would be very useful for ListBoxes and ComboBoxes...This would also allow us to use Markup for editable Combos as well (when you edit you are typing plain text, and when you leave focus the markup entry would be drawn). Essentially, you would have 2 parallel lists - 1 plain text and 1 markup. The plain text list would be used for sorting, autocomplete, keyboard navigation, etc... and the Markup list would be used for display purposes.

I totally agree !
I also would need this feature very urgent !!!

@CodeJock: Please try to implement it in the next release ...

By the way: How does this work with ReportControl ? (How) Does Filtering work if I use XAML formatted rows ?

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Hi, yes.

I thought of a workaround that unfortunately didn't work, but it should be able to work with a minor change from Codejock and may be an acceptable (hopefully temporary) compromise.

If you create a function that markups your plain text for use with the ListBox, you could prepend your visible markup with invisible plain text wrapped in a StackPanel. Since the left portion of markup for each item will be the same, the ListBox should sort correctly. THE PROBLEM: The CodeJock listbox ignores the Sorted property when EnableMarkup = True. If the control honoured the Sorted =TRUE property, then this workaround would work.

For example, if you have the following markup now:

<TextBlock Foreground='Red'>2</TextBlock> <TextBlock Foreground='Green'>1</TextBlock> <TextBlock Foreground='Blue'>3</TextBlock>

If Sorting worked, the numbers would appear in this order: 3 1 2

You could have it sort more logically by altering the markup as follows:

<StackPanel><TextBlock Visibility='Collapsed'>2</TextBlock><TextBlock Foreground='Red'>2</TextBlock></StackPanel> <StackPanel><TextBlock Visibility='Collapsed'>1</TextBlock><TextBlock Foreground='Green'>1</TextBlock></StackPanel> <StackPanel><TextBlock Visibility='Collapsed'>3</TextBlock><TextBlock Foreground='Blue'>3</TextBlock></StackPanel>

The order would now appear as 1 2 3, or at least it would if the CJ control honoured the Sorted property with markup enabled.

Now, perhaps the question will be "Why not sort your data before it gets marked up and put into the ListBox?" This may be a valid question, but let's assume there is a good reason for not doing this...Is it an easy solution to get the CJ ListBox/ComboBox to honour the Sorted proeprty when EnableMarkup = TRUE?

@OLEG: Can you please implement a solution or workaround in v13.2.1 ?

It's really very very important for me !!!

Thanks a lot

Hi Oleg,

thank you very much ! With this feature will it also be possible to sort markup styles entries ?

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