Class

RadAutoCompleteBox

Initializes a new instance of the RadAutoCompleteBox class with default settings.

Declaration

public RadAutoCompleteBox()

Gets or sets a value indicating whether already selected items can be suggested again in the auto-completion list. When set to true, duplicate values can appear in suggestions even if they are already tokenized.

Declaration

public bool AllowDuplicates { get; set; }

Property Value

Gets or sets the auto-completion mode that controls how automatic completion works for the text box. This property determines whether suggestions are shown in a dropdown, appended to text, or both.

Declaration

public override AutoCompleteMode AutoCompleteMode { get; set; }

Property Value

Overrides RadTextBoxControl.AutoCompleteMode

Gets the associated RadAutoCompleteBoxElement that provides the core functionality for this control.

Declaration

protected RadAutoCompleteBoxElement AutoCompleteTextBoxElement { get; }

Property Value

Gets or sets the property name that will be used to extract values from data items in the auto-completion data source. This is useful when binding to complex objects where you want to display a specific property value.

Declaration

[TypeConverter("System.Windows.Forms.Design.DataMemberFieldConverter, System.Design, Version=2.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a")]
[Browsable(true)]
public string AutoCompleteValueMember { get; set; }

Property Value

Gets the default size of the control.

Declaration

protected override Size DefaultSize { get; }

Property Value

Overrides RadTextBoxControl.DefaultSize

Gets or sets the delimiter character used to tokenize the text input. When the user types this character, the preceding text is converted into a token.

Declaration

public char Delimiter { get; set; }

Property Value

Gets the collection of tokenized text items that have been created from the user input. Each item represents a piece of text that was separated by the delimiter character.

Declaration

[Browsable(false)]
public RadTokenizedTextItemCollection Items { get; }

Property Value

Gets or sets a value indicating whether the remove button should appear on tokenized text blocks. The text box must not be in read-only mode for the remove button to be functional.

Declaration

public bool ShowRemoveButton { get; set; }

Property Value

Determines whether the specified element can be edited at design time.

Declaration

protected override bool CanEditElementAtDesignTime(RadElement element)

Parameters

Returns

Overrides RadControl.CanEditElementAtDesignTime(RadElement)

Creates and returns the text box element specific to the RadAutoCompleteBox control.

Declaration

protected override RadTextBoxControlElement CreateTextBoxElement()

Returns

Overrides RadTextBoxControl.CreateTextBoxElement()

Resets the background color theme overrides for the auto-complete text box element, restoring the default theme background color values.

Declaration

protected override void ResetBackColorThemeOverrides()

Overrides RadTextBoxControl.ResetBackColorThemeOverrides()

Resets the foreground color theme overrides for the auto-complete text box element, restoring the default theme foreground color values and applying the theme to the element tree.

Declaration

protected override void ResetForeColorThemeOverrides()

Overrides RadTextBoxControl.ResetForeColorThemeOverrides()

Sets the background color theme overrides for the auto-complete text box element across all visual states. This method applies the current BackColor to all available visual states.

Declaration

protected override void SetBackColorThemeOverrides()

Overrides RadTextBoxControl.SetBackColorThemeOverrides()

Sets the foreground color theme overrides for the auto-complete text box element across all visual states. This method applies the current ForeColor to all available visual states.

Declaration

protected override void SetForeColorThemeOverrides()

Overrides RadTextBoxControl.SetForeColorThemeOverrides()

Occurs when text is being validated as a token before it is added to the Items collection. This event allows you to validate and potentially modify the token before it is created.

Declaration

public event TokenValidatingEventHandler TokenValidating

Event Value