RadTextBoxControl : Watermark enabled autocomplete

[Chan]

Helo !

I used RadTextBoxControl in winforms.(win7, .net4.0)
I used this control to search records (Text box to search records with autocomplete feature).

Now, i want my autocomplete to be similar as of google search box works.
like, the moment i started typing text in the textboxcontrol the first matching record should appear as watermark, instead of highlighted and selected.This autocomplete records being pulled from database.

While typing the text in radtextboxcontrol, the matching characters should be highlighted with bold fonts and the rest characters from matching records should be watermarked. Contents being displayed in dropdown should be inversely formatted with respect to contents in textbox(e.g. matching characters should be watermarked and rest should be bold)

For illustration of my problem you may have look on google searchtextbox.

Looking ahead for your response.

Thanks,
Arpus

[Stefan]

Hello Arpus,

Thank you for writing.

Currently, RadTextBoxControl does not support such a functionality. If more people request the same, we will consider adding such a request and implementing it in future.

Thank you for this suggestion.
 
Regards,
Stefan
the Telerik team

[Chan]

Helo Stefan !

I wrote few lines of code to acheive my aim depending on the selection change of text in textBox while typing with autocomplete :

//Text Change Event on RadTextBox

 private void radTxtSearch_TextChanged(object sender, EventArgs e)

        {     

            radTxtSearch.AutoCompleteDataSource = System.TimeZoneInfo.GetSystemTimeZones();

            radTxtSearch.AutoCompleteDisplayMember = System.TimeZoneInfo.Utc.DisplayName;

            radTxtSearch.AutoCompleteMode = AutoCompleteMode.SuggestAppend;

            radTxtSearch.MaxDropDownItemCount = 10;
 

            radTxtSearch_WaterMark();// calling native method          

         }

 

        private void radTxtSearch_WaterMark()

        {

            radTxtSearch.TextBoxElement.ForeColor = Color.Black;

            radTxtSearch.TextBoxElement.Font = new Font(radTxtSearch.Font, FontStyle.Bold);

            radTxtSearch.TextBoxElement.SelectionColor = Color.Cornsilk;

 

            for (int i = 0; i < radTxtSearch.AutoCompleteItems.Count; i++)

            {

                radTxtSearch.AutoCompleteItems[i].Font = new Font(radTxtSearch.Font, FontStyle.Bold);

            }

 

            DDSearch.ForeColor = Color.Black; // DDSearch is System.Windows.Forms.ComboBox

            DDSearch.Font = new Font(radTxtSearch.Font, FontStyle.Bold);// set the font of RadTextbox to combobox.

         }

[Stefan]

Hello Chan,

Thank you for sharing your code with us. I am sure the community will benefit from it.

If you wish, you can create a C# and VB sample projects demonstrating this functionality in action and submit them in our Code Library section, so the community can easily find them. This will get you some Telerik Points.

All the best,
Stefan
the Telerik team