DropDown in grid not auto-completing since 8.1->8.2 upgrade

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Shanon posted over 16 years ago

I'm having problems with UltraDropDowns (used in grids) since my recent upgrade from 8.1 to 8.2. I'll try to outline these issues:

1) UltraDropDown (used on a grid) fields do not auto complete. When I type an "A" into the UltraDropDown, it does not suggest something starting with A to me.
2) When I type in an existing value exactly (which is in the dropdown list), it does not recognise it. That is, in the grid.BeforeCellUpdate event, the dropDown.SelectedRow property is null.

I have done a little searching of the forums into this, and have found some reference to an AutoCompleteMode that was added (although I'm not sure if this was added in 8.1 or 8.2). I cant find such a property for the UltrarDropDown, but I can for the UltraGrid columns. They appear to be set to "None" for every column. I have attempted to change this to "Default" for one column. After saving it, and re-opening the form, it is back to "None". It seems to be resetting itself back after I save it.

Whats going on here? Why is auto complete not working, why is it not accepting typed in values? What has changed?

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Offline Mike Saltzman posted over 16 years ago

I think the issue of the AutoCompleteMode being set to None is a known bug. It may already be fixed in the latest Hot Fix, so you should download it and try it out. If that does not help, you should Submit an incident to Infragistics Developer Support.
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Shanon posted over 16 years ago in reply to Mike Saltzman

Thanks. I already have the latest hotfix, so I logged an incident with support.
The reply I got was less then encouraging:
----SUPPORT REPLY START ----
Thank you for submitting your query with Infragistics. I would like to let you know that AutoCompleteMode does not work in reference to UltraDropDown control. Please go through the following online help article that explains "AutoCompleteMode Property":
<http://help.infragistics.com/Help/NetAdvantage/NET/2008.2/CLR2.0/html/Infragistics2.Win.UltraWinGrid.v8.2~Infragistics.Win.UltraWinGrid.UltraGridColumn~AutoCompleteMode.html>
I would suggest you to use ultracombo control, please have a look upon the following online help article:
<http://help.infragistics.com/Help/NetAdvantage/NET/2008.2/CLR2.0/html/Infragistics2.Win.UltraWinGrid.v8.2~Infragistics.Win.UltraWinGrid.UltraCombo~AutoCompleteMode.html>
Hope this helps you. Thank you for your patience in this matter.
----SUPPORT REPLY END----
Considering that when I started using Infragistics controls (v7.3) I was told by by an infragistics employee on these forums that I should be using UltraDropDowns on grids, not ultraCombo's, this is a very dissapointing answer.
Whats going on here? Is the support guy right? Or does he/she not know what they are talking about?
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Offline Mike Saltzman posted over 16 years ago in reply to Shanon

I responded to you in your other post.
But just to be clear, using an UltraDropDown is the correct thing to do in the grid and is preferable to using an UltraCombo.
The support rep here must have misunderstood. It's true that the UltraDropDown control does not have an AutoCompleteMode property, but it does not need one - the property exists on the grid column.
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aarti dogra posted over 11 years ago in reply to Mike Saltzman

Hi,

One more thing. If i cannot use MultiLine and type ahead together then how do i wrap the cell text if it is greater than the width of cell. I do need the type ahead functionality and want to wrap my cell text without it getting truncated after it extends cell width.

Aarti
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Offline Mike Saltzman posted over 11 years ago in reply to aarti dogra

Hi,

I'm sorry, but there is no way that I know of to get these two features to work together properly. The TextBox control fires events differently when Multiline, and there's no way for the control to detect this. So these two features are not supported together.
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aarti dogra posted over 11 years ago in reply to Mike Saltzman

I have certain items in the list which have there description in square brackets eg: DEL[New Delhi] in such a scenerio i have to display code 'DEL' in first line and '[New Delhi]' in the newLine
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Offline Mike Saltzman posted over 11 years ago in reply to aarti dogra

Hi,

There is no way to do this and no known workaround. Why do you need CellMultiline set to true when all of your values are a single word, anyway?
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aarti dogra posted over 11 years ago in reply to aarti dogra
the functionality i am looking for is:

Example:

Assume that my datasource contains the following names: Abc, Abcd, Bangalore, Bengule, Delhi, Dear.

In UltraGrid column i have set CellMultiLine to true.

Now when i type in the ultragrid column - lets say i type 'b' the value displayed in ultragrid column is completed and 'Bangalore' is displayed as this is the first word for which the first character entered matches.

when i type the second character 'e' so as to select 'Bengule'. second character is types at the very end of the first word displayed in ultragrid column i.e 'Bangaloree'.

hence the type ahead functionality does not work correctly.

But when i set CellMultiLine to false

when i type in the ultragrid column - lets say i type 'b' the value displayed in ultragrid column is completed and 'Bangalore' is displayed as this is the first word for which the first character entered matches.

when i type the second character 'e' so as to select 'Bengule'.

The type ahead functionality works correctly and now 'Bengule' is displayed in the ultraGrid Column.

Can you suggest some work around through which Correct Type Ahead and CellMultiLine set to true can be achieved.
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