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Kevin asked on 24 Jan 2009, 03:26 PM
I'm evaluating your controls mostly as a replacement for the horrible ComboBox provided by Microsoft. The other controls are nice, but the ComboBox is the make or break for my company using them.

What we need is a drop down list that forces the user to pick from the provided items. But we also want them to be able to start typing to choose an item. For an example, there is a list of car manufacturers: Ford, Mazda, Mercury, Mercedes, Toyota. At the very least we want the user to be able to type an "F" to select Ford, or an "M" to select the first M (Mazda in this case), and "T" to select Toyota. A better scenario would be "M" selects Mazda, but "ME" would jump to Mercury, and "MERCE" would jump to Mercedes.

So essentially we want the search that works fine with IsEditable=True and IsReadOnly=False. As soon as I disabled editing or make the editable combo read only, the text search capability dissapears. I'm hoping I'm just missing something obvious, but I did not find anyting in your online demo showing this exact configuration either.

The ComponentOne combobox has a mode that works exactly like we want. They've also got a MaskedTextbox that you do not that we could use. However, I really like your Visual Studio inspired dock panels. Telling me I did miss something obvious, or that you are about to have a new release that adds this and the MaskedTextbox would help sway our decision your way. :)

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Valeri Hristov
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answered on 26 Jan 2009, 11:00 AM
Hi Kevin,

RadComboBox does not support your scenario yet. However, I think that this is an easy feature and I will be able to provide you with an unofficial build having it. Our QAs will need several hours to test everything before I post it here, though.

A masked input control is currently under development, it will be officially available with Q1 2009, which is due in five or six weeks. I am afraid though, that we will not be able to release a public beta version, containing this control prior its official release.

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answered on 26 Jan 2009, 01:46 PM
Excellent, that will be good enough. The masked box is a nice to have, the combobox is a requirement. So we can switch over to masked text boxes later once they are officially released. We have several dropdowns that contain long lists, so it is much faster to type the first letter than to drop the box down and find the correct selection. Once that is in place we'll be in good shape.
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answered on 27 Jan 2009, 12:19 PM
Any update on this feature request?
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Valeri Hristov
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answered on 27 Jan 2009, 12:35 PM
Hi Kevin,

Please, find attached the promised build and let me know if you find any problems with it. This is a development build, that passed some testing, but is not with release quality, so beware - there could be bugs.

Also you will have to update all assemblies in your application, e.g. updating only Telerik.Windows.Controls.Input.dll will produce errors, since the assembly versions are changed.

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answered on 27 Jan 2009, 12:56 PM
At first glance everything seems to work perfectly. Exactly like we needed. Thanks!
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answered on 09 Feb 2009, 03:42 PM
I have now purchased a license. What do I need to do to get a developer build with this fix included?
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Valeri Hristov
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answered on 10 Feb 2009, 07:36 AM
Hi Kevin,

Open a new support ticket
http://www.telerik.com/account/support-tickets/new-support-ticket.aspx

and I will send you a developer build. Please, make sure you choose one of the RadControls for Silverlight controls when you are configuring the ticket.

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