DevTools for .NET

Not answered autoselect when only one item is left

leowns

Posted on Feb 3, 2011 (permalink)

hey guys

I've a problem with the filter in the MultiColumn ComboBox:

If filtering is turned on, and I type some letters in the CB that only one row is left in the combogridview, this row is autoselected from the combobox.

Is there a way to disable that function because when you type fastly you don't get when the row is autoselected. That means you write some more letters after the autoselect.

So for example if I would like to select the row "Media":

1. I type "Me"
2. only one row is left in the combogridview and the row "Media" is selected (also in the combobox.text is now "Media")
3. I dont get that and continue with "dia"
4. So in the Combobox the Text "Mediadia" appears

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James

Posted on Aug 1, 2011 (permalink)

Hi there,

First post to support, feel free to move if I shouldn't be commenting on an existing ticket.

I am experiencing this issue as well, and the behaviour is exhibited and repeatable in the RadControls demo application.

Go to the MultiColumnComboBox demo, select AutoFilter. In the filter box type "ALFKI" as you would quickly without necessarily looking at the results being returned to the screen. As soon as the entry is the last one the autofilter kicks in and is applied but the text cursor is moved immediately to the end of the string and you end up typing additional characters after the filter is applied and then losing the results. It's actually really quite annoying and I can't actually deploy my application with it exhibiting this behaviour.

A more preferable behaviour would be for the text string to be completed and the remaining portion of the string highlighted with the cursor remaining where it was. That seems to be a more natural and expected behaviour and similar to the existing dropdown control. With it this way, as much as it's great, it's almost too good and will end up annoying end users.

Kind Regards,

James

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James

Posted on Aug 1, 2011 (permalink)

Alternatively, simply having the option on whether the text box string is appended to or not would be perfect. I thought this was controlled by the Autocomplete settings but that doesn't seem to have an affect on this.

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Chris

Posted on Aug 11, 2011 (permalink)

I am also suffering from this issue and as a result, my app has failed UAT testing.

Is it possible to add a property to only allow valid entries to be entered, i.e the combo would restrict the entry of text to the values in the drop down? I guess it'd have to work like the dropdownlist, but allow filtering based on keypresses?

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Craig

Posted on Aug 27, 2011 (permalink)

Just for my vote I would also like this option to be able to not auto select the last item in the list when auto filtering. That is a very annoying behaviour. The current behaviour is requiring the user to know at what point an item would be auto selected before they start typing or to type really slowly and wait to see if the letter just typed filters out all but one row. The current behaviour is forcing me to not select Telerik Windows Controls as a replacement for Infragistics which is really disapointing since overall I like Telerik better than Infragistics but that auto selecting behaviour is a real show stopper.

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