Custom combobox edit column template

[solutionfactory]

Hi all,
i have a problem with my custom edit column template.

This is my column

        public class MyEnumColumnEditor : GridTextColumnEditor
        {
            private RadComboBox box;
            private readonly Type enumType;
            private readonly bool useDescription = false;
            private readonly bool addTopEmptyItem = false;


            public MyEnumColumnEditor(Type enumType, bool useDescription, bool addTopEmptyItem)
            {
                this.enumType = enumType;
                this.useDescription = useDescription;
                this.addTopEmptyItem = addTopEmptyItem;
            }

            protected override void AddControlsToContainer()
            {
                this.box = new RadComboBox();

                ArrayList list = new ArrayList();
                Array enumValues = Enum.GetValues(enumType);
                Type baseType = Enum.GetUnderlyingType(enumType);

                if (addTopEmptyItem)
                    list.Add(new KeyValuePair<int, string>(-1, string.Empty));

                foreach (Enum value in enumValues)
                {
                    string desc = useDescription ? Data.GetEnumDescription(value) : value.ToString();
                    list.Add(new KeyValuePair<int, string>((int)Convert.ChangeType(value, baseType), desc));
                }

                this.box.DataSource = list;
                this.box.DataTextField = "Value";
                this.box.DataValueField = "Key";
                this.box.DataBind();
                this.box.SelectedIndex = 0;

                this.ContainerControl.Controls.Add(this.box);
            }

            protected override void LoadControlsFromContainer()
            {
                this.box = this.ContainerControl.Controls[0] as RadComboBox;
            }

            public override bool IsInitialized
            {
                get
                {
                    return this.box != null;
                }
            }

            public override string Text
            {
                get
                {
                    if (this.box.SelectedItem == null)
                        return string.Empty;

                    return this.box.SelectedValue;
                }
                set
                {
                    this.box.SelectedIndex = string.IsNullOrEmpty(value) ? 0 :
                                           this.box.FindItemIndexByValue(value);
                }
            }

        }

All works fine, but when i edit an existing item, the selected item displayed on combobox is not the current value.

The SelectedIndex is correctly but the displayed item is always the first.

Any suggestion?

Thanks in advance,
Flavio

[Nikolay Rusev]

Hello Flavio,

Please find the project attached to this forum post. It demonstrates how you must implement custom column editor. The links below will give you a detailed information about how grid editors works and how to extend them.

Custom editors extending auto-generated editors
Using grid server-side API for extraction

I hope that helps.

Best wishes,
Nikolay
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[solutionfactory]

Hello Nikolay,
works as expected for me,
thank a lot.

Best regards,
Flavio