Find, Edit menu

[Sl1ver]

Anyone got coding or no where i can find coding so i can activate the "Find" function in the edit menu?

[tlhintoq]

What do you mean by "activate" the find function?

You do realize you are going to have to write your own 'find' routine, right? There is no all-purpose all powerful find function already written that can search any kind of data, from any source.

[Sl1ver]

meaning ill have to grab current selected focus and create a find piece coding based on that?

[Sl1ver]

How to i grab the focus from, lets say a data grid or im on 1 datagrid wanting to search info on a nother data grid from the user selecting from a dropdown or search all 3 datagrids. the datagrids are on tabs

[cloud255]

Well, you'll have to create a separate region where you have controls in which the user will specify filter values and then another control to activate your search routine.

You will then apply the search routine to each datagrid. I suggest a single function which accepts a struct and a datasource as a parameters (remember to pass these by value). Return a dataset which contains all the matches.

I dont understand your question regarding the focus. No control needs to have focus for you to search something as this happens in code, but to set focus to a specific control us:

controlName.Focus();

[Sl1ver]

im using XtraGrid from DXperiance, how will i implement a search for a whole table, all i get codes for is in a specific column?

[tlhintoq]

@Sl1ver
Meaning... I have no idea what your program is, does, looks like or what kind of data or objects it contains. Maybe when the user clicks 'find' a non-modal search control opens up like in word. Maybe you're making a painting program and when you click 'find' all the similar objects (filled ovals) are searched and highlighted. Maybe you are making a car lot sales program and an sql search box comes up for finding a 1997 Ford Ranger in Blue.