Edit on focus

[Hans]

Hi, 

I would like to be able to begin typing the moment the MultiColumnComboBox has focus, which is not possible at the moment.  I need to click in the control or tap Tab a second time before I can begin typing.

Best Regards,
Hans

[Martin Ivanov]

Hello Hans,

I've tested two scenarios based on your description.

• The first one was to click on the text input part of the control. In this case the focus is given to the input field and you can type right away.
  
  
• The second scenario was to focus the control using its Focus() method. In this case you cannot just start typing because the focus doesn't propagate to the input field. In order to focus this you can use the GotFocus event of the RadMultiColumnComboBox control to manually set the focus to the text input. Here is an example in code:
  

  private void multiColumnComboBox_GotFocus(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)
  {
      var tb = this.multiColumnComboBox.FindChildByType<RadWatermarkTextBox>();
      tb.Focus();
  }

If this doesn't help, can you please tell me how exactly you focus the control, and what is its setup?

Regards,
Martin Ivanov
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[Hans]

Hello Martin,

My MultiColumnComboBox gets the focus by tapping the Tab key.  Your second scenario was the solution to my problem.  Thanks !

Best Regards,
Hans

[Ras Ran]

hii...how do i get multi column combo box selected items into a datatable or List ?? see the attached pic

[Martin Ivanov]

Hello Raneesras,

You can get the selected items of the RadMultiColumnComboBox control using its SelectedItems property.

Regards,
Martin Ivanov
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[Ras Ran]

Thank you for the reply...i want know one more thing that how to hide RadMultiColumnComboBox popup after selection

[Ras Ran]

Thank you for the reply...i want to know one more thing that how to hide RadMultiColumnComboBox popup after selection ????????

[Martin Ivanov]

Hello Raneesras,

To do this you can set the CloseDropDownAfterSelectionInput property of the control to True.

<telerik:RadMultiColumnComboBox CloseDropDownAfterSelectionInput="True" />

Regards,
Martin Ivanov
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[Ras Ran]

hii...i cant access that property....see the attached pic

[Martin Ivanov]

Hello Raneesras,

Note that the CloseDropDownAfterSelectionInput was introduced with UI for WPF R1 2019 (version 2019_1_116).

Regards,
Martin Ivanov
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[Ras Ran]

hii...Martin Ivanov...i can't access this too....i am using 2018 version

[Martin Ivanov]

Hello Raneesras,

Another approach is to use the SelectionChanged event of RadMultiColumnComboBox control and its CloseDropDown() method if you have access to this API.

private void RadMultiColumnComboBox_SelectionChanged(object sender, SelectionChangeEventArgs e)
{
    this.multiColumnComboBox.CloseDropDown();
}

If this doesn't work for you, there is a solution shown in the following forum.

Regards,
Martin Ivanov
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[Ras Ran]

Thank you, Martin Ivanov.  That solution is what I needed.  And I appreciate you setting up the feature request.

[Ras Ran]

hiii i want to add rad multi column combo box column in RadGridView....after selecting an from  rad multi column combo i want to add a new row in RadGridView could you please give me a sample project related to this ??

[Ras Ran]

hiii i want to add rad multi column combo box column in RadGridView....after selecting an item from  rad multi column combo i want to add a new row in RadGridView could you please give me a sample project related to this ??