make Auto suggest textbox drop down on focus

[vinitfichadia]

Hi all,

May i pls know how can i make autosuggest textbox to be drop down on getting focus into it.

whenever a textbox gets focus, i want autosuggest list to get dropdown without typing anything into it, just on getting focus into it.

Thanks,

Vinit

 

[JuggaloBrotha]

I'm not trying to hinder the idea of having a dropdown textbox in the windows forms area (there's an autocomplete extender ajax control that does this for web forms textboxes already)
but....

you can do this with a combobox in .Net 2.0 already, and I have code that allows you to do it with a .net 1.0/1.1 combobox as well.

 

[cjard]

the other thing I'm wondering about, JB, is that a Windows.Forms.TextBox has several properties relating to AutoComplete. Have you ever used them? Would they help in this situation?

 

[vinitfichadia]

yes i've used all the features of autocomplete but surely didnt find any solution to my requirement.

 

[cjard]

tried using a combo?

 

[vinitfichadia]

yes still didnot worked.

basically want to go with textbox only

 

[JuggaloBrotha]

You can use a ComboBox as a TextBox (The AutoComplete is the DropDown, but the user doesn't have to select anything, they can keep typing in the type-able box) then to get whatever they typed in (or selected) use the ComboBox's text property (yes, it has a text property) and viola you have what appears to be an AutoComplete TextBox

the other thing I'm wondering about, JB, is that a Windows.Forms.TextBox has several properties relating to AutoComplete. Have you ever used them? Would they help in this situation?

I didn't know they added those properties to the Windows.Forms.TextBox

 

[vinitfichadia]

actually what the problem is i m having nearly 100+ texbox control in my windows application, so it would be hard to replace all with combobox.texbox specific solution would be highly appreciated.

 

[JuggaloBrotha]

Personally, I'd spend the time changing all of the TextBoxes to ComboBoxes instead of spending the time to develop and test an extended TextBox to make it work like a ComboBox

 

[vinitfichadia]

ok, no worries, but anyways, thank you very much for your kindest help