PropertyGrid - Select Value Cell from code

[HenrikRinder]

This is a silly question, but now I have spent hours trying to figure it out. Thus, asking this forum:

Our application GUI has a .NET PropertyGrid. Our customers don't find it intuitive to navigate it using the keyboard (and I agree).

The default behaviour of the PropertyGrid (PG) is that when a row is selected, the property name is highlighted, but the value column/cell is not. Still, it is perfectly OK to enter values into the "value cell" using the keyboard. This is not intuitive to our customers, neither to me.

BUT, if the PG has focus, a grid row is selected, and you press <TAB>: the value cell gets highlighted and gets focus for editing.

How can you acheive this programatically? I have tried to inherit from the PG class and override various methods/event, without succsess.


Best regards, Henrik

[Plater]

I had to look this object up, had never heard of it.
This is the same as the Properties window in Visual Studio, in functionality too.
Was kinda neat to change the properties of my window at runtime like that.

I'm not sure what's not intuitive. It's not intuitive that if you select a row, that you can type and the value will change, then they will do it the "long way" by selecting the value and editing it?

The alternative would be to use another control?

[HenrikRinder]

I found out how to do it, in case anybody is intrested.

In a class that inherits PropertyGrid do:

        protected override void OnSelectedGridItemChanged(SelectedGridItemChangedEventArgs e)
        {
            foreach (Control control in base.ActiveControl.Controls)
            {
                if (control.GetType().ToString() ==
                    "System.Windows.Forms.PropertyGridInternal." +
                    "PropertyGridView+GridViewEdit")
                {
                    if (control is TextBox)
                    {
                        (control as TextBox).Focus();
                        (control as TextBox).SelectAll();
                    }
                }
            }
            base.OnSelectedGridItemChanged(e);
        }
 

/Henrik