€ character

[Michael Hilgers]

Hello everyone,

i'm using some RadRichTextBoxes in my application.

Because we're in the European Union, we need the character "€" for currency values like "110,23€".

But for me and my customers, it's not possible to insert a € character into the TextBoxes with the key shortcuts "Ctrl+Alt+E" or "AltGr+E" (which are the standard for inserting € characters on european keyboard layouts).

How can i modify the behaviour of the TextBoxes so that these standard values are accepted? But i think a cleaner and better solution would be a native support for the € character by Telerik itself because it's a standard character in Europe like the $ character in the US.

Regards,
Michael

[Svett]

Hello Michael,

Thank you for writing.

You can achieve the desired behavior by creating a custom input handler in the following manner:

public class MyInputBehavior : InputBehavior
{
    public MyInputBehavior(DocumentView view)
        : base(view)
    {

    }

    protected override bool ProcessKeyDownCore(System.Windows.Forms.KeyEventArgs e)
    {
        if (e.Control && e.Alt && e.KeyCode == System.Windows.Forms.Keys.E)
        {
            this.DocumentView.Insert("€");
            return false;
        }

        return base.ProcessKeyDownCore(e);
    }
}

Then you should replace the default instance in the following way:

this.radRichTextBox1.DocumentView.InputBehavior = new MyInputBehavior(this.radRichTextBox1.DocumentView);

I will consider your suggestion as feature request. You can track its status in our public issue tracking system.

I updated your Telerik points.

Greetings,
Svett
the Telerik team

[Michael Hilgers]

Hello Svett ,

thanks for the reply. Your suggested solution is nearly correct.

Doing it the way you suggest, i get two € characters insted of one when pressing the key combination just once.

I changed the function like this and all works fine:

protected override bool ProcessKeyDownCore(System.Windows.Forms.KeyEventArgs e)
        {
            if (e.Control && e.Alt && e.KeyCode == System.Windows.Forms.Keys.E)
            {
                //this.DocumentView.Insert("€");
                return false;
            }

            return base.ProcessKeyDownCore(e);
        }

Regards,
Michael

[Svett]

Hi Michael,

I am glad we sorted this out. Do not hesitate to contact back, if you have further issues with RadConrols for Winforms.

Greetings,
Svett
the Telerik team