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CXTPPropertyGridInplaceEdit select all?

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Topic: CXTPPropertyGridInplaceEdit select all?

Posted By: cheez0r
Subject: CXTPPropertyGridInplaceEdit select all?
Date 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?

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Posted By: znakeeye
Date 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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Posted By: dennisV
Date 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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// W7 64 Ultimate SP1
// VS 2008
// CodeJock 16.2.3 (MFC)

Posted By: dennisV
Date 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();
				}
			}
		}
	}

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// W7 64 Ultimate SP1
// VS 2008
// CodeJock 16.2.3 (MFC)