We're developing a custom control (to make our lives easier), which included a customs (external) grid control and some default buttons and text. The grid control has the option to add columns by clicking the small arrow on the top right of the grid in designer, like shown in the picture.
We want to keep this option when putting our new custom control on a (win)form. Is there any way we can achieve this?
I've already looked into the 'verbs' and I can add my own custom verbs to the new control, but I'm not sure the arrow is a verb (as it does not show the option on the bottom of the properties). I also haven't been able to find how to use the verbs from the grid control.
Thank you very much!
I've found the solution to my problem.
I thought the way to add columns was a custom control when in reality, it was a default CollectionEditor. This, in combination with Smart Tag, solved my problem.
Sorry I don't know how to name it other than "advanced custom properties". If I know, I would search it first.
I am dealing with a legacy code using 3-rd party controls.
In VB6, When you drag that control onto the form, you can see all the properties supported by the control in the "Properties" window. Such as MarginLeft, MarginRight etc. etc.
That's no problem.
In the "Property" window, the top-most property is generally the "(Name)" field, which is the name of the control.
But the 3-rd party control I am using, has another two "fake properties" above "(Name)", which are "(About)" and "(Custom)".
When you click "(About)", there will be a dialog box showing the company info. When you click "(Custom)", there will be another dialog box showing more properties. These dialog boxes are shown in VB6.
In the "(Custom)" dialog box, you can modify normal properties (same as modifying directly in the Property window). You can do more. There are more properties that are not normal properties (at least you cannot find anything in the Property window).
When you save this form, for normal properties, everything are saved into .FRM file. E.g.,
Control1.MarginLeft = 5
Control1.Text = "I am a control"
However, for the "advanced properties" edited in the (Custom) dialog box, they are not saved in .FRM, they are saved in .FRX in binary format.
E.g., in (Custom) dialog box, you can edit a property called "Caption", which includes text of this caption, the font, the weight, the display style, and a lot of similar properties for Caption. In .FRM, it is something like,
Control1.Caption = "frmForm1.frx":013F
All the text and related properties of Caption are saved in binary format in .FRX file.
Note that, there's no Caption property in the normal Property window, you can only edit it in the "(Custom)" dialog box.
My question is as follows,
How to implement such a (Custom) dialog box that can be shown in VB6?
How to let VB6's Property window display (About) and (Custom)?
How to tell VB6 that Caption property shall not be displayed in Property window, but you can use directly in code as Control1.Caption = xxxx.frx:offset?
How to tell VB6 that this Caption property shall be saved in .FRX, and how to tell VB6 the size of the data, so that VB6 can manages the offset automatically?
How to load the data automatically via VB6 so that the correct values can be displayed in (Custom) dialog box?
As far as I know, .frx formats are secrets, there are a lot of ppl digging into various .frx for standard controls such as Binary(images), List, and Text. I am curious how can a 3-rd party control utilizing .frx, shall the 3-rd party control define its own .frx format? Including for example, how many bytes in front for Length (or no length field at all, it's fixed length), how many bytes for style1, how many bytes for style2, etc.
Thanks a lot. If you know what proper name it is for this "advanced properties", just tell me the name and I can search myself.
I tried to search for advanced properties but didn't really get anything I want to know.
The frx files are for binary or other non-basic data types. The frm will store the simple properties. What you need to do is to hook into the UserControl events WriteProperties and ReadProperties. You don't need to know where the backing storage is (frm vs frx)., you just need to access the PropBag to read and write your data.
Google is your friend to find the documentation:
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa242140(v=vs.60).aspx
Or additional information on the topic:
http://www.vbforums.com/showthread.php?365735-Classic-VB-How-do-the-ReadProperties-and-WriteProperties-work-(PropertyBags)&s=3cfbd675928ad1eb94f68fbfb13ccd88&p=3672781&viewfull=1#post3672781
Good luck!
I have an xpage that contains a rich text field that uses CKEditor. I have set the toolbar attribute to Full to get the source button so my users can actually create tabs and other items so their content looks good.
I am trying to create a dojo dijit tooltip but it just doens't seem to work. I added the code found on the Dojo web site, but nothing happens.
Am I missing something?
Thanks
I guess it's the htmlFilter/htmlFilterIn property of your richtext control (i.e. field). To add source code "as is" it has to be set to "identity". No guarantee if you can add Dojo widgets directly via the source code though.
I'm using Kendo ASP.NET MVC and I would like to have some control over the edit form.
Things I would like to do:
Hide my ID field
Change my Property Code and Square Feet to regular TextBoxFor fields
Change Date of Purchase and Date of Sale to Kendo DatePickerFor instead of the DateTimePickerFor that is showing.
Link to screenshot of editor form
When you click edit, Kendo uses the default EditorTemplate for the object. If you're not familiar how editor templates work, check this article.
You have two ways of solving it, either by creating a custom view editor templates that only lists the fields you want. Or (and this is simpler and preferred method), in many cases you can get away with the default editor template and control which fields are rendered (and how) using metadata on the object. You can hide individual properties by tagging them with [ScaffoldColumn(false)] attribute. In terms of controlling the types of editors that show up, you can accomplish this by tagging your properties with [DataType(DataType.Date)] or [DataType(DataType.Text)]
How can i change Label font properties (size, font and color) for any screen item i have ??
i found an extension that can give me some properties to play with (Pixata Custom Controls for lightswitch)
the problem with it is that i can change only data properties i cant play with the label style itself
for example if i have textbox screen item lightswitch will generate a label and a text box for me in the Pixata extension i can only manipulate the texbox but not the label
so what is the best way to manipulate font properties in general and label font properties in particular?
I found the answer from BethMassi in her awesome blog which was as follow
You can select the style in the properties window for the control on the screen designer. Controls support basic Normal, Warning, Heading 1, etc. styles. If you want to change all colors, fonts, etc. then you need to create or download a theme. If you just want a single control to show in a different font/color then you can create a custom control.
thanks a lot beth
Thanks Everyone :)
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