Testimonials

"We had just exhausted the capabilities of the standard Microsoft PropertyGrid and had started writing our own extensions when we found SmartPropertyGrid. SPG negated the need for custom extensions whilst greatly simplifying and accelerating our product development."

Brian Hutchison at Sias

Partners

VisualHint and Skybound have reached agreement on a technical partnership where both companies can share their expertise and code. The first impact for Smart PropertyGrid.Net is to allow better XP theme rendering for .Net 1.1 and 2.0 as well as the support of their incredible VisualTips which represent a must-have feature along value validation. Check Skybound products! They can be used for free or based on a premium subscription.

Smart PropertyGrid.MFC

Full keyboard management

As in every good windows control, it is possible for the user to manipulate the PropertyGrid only with the keyboard. Here is a table of all the keys managed by the control:

Key name	Behaviour
Up and down arrows	Moves the selection mark to the previous or next property respectively. It also moves the selected text in comboboxes and other inplace controls like radiobuttons for example.
Left and right arrows	Like up and down arrows respectively except that if the selection is on a category or grouped property the item is collapsed or expanded.
Page up and page down	Moves the selection mark one page up or one page down respectively.
Home	Moves the selection mark to the first item.
End	Moves the selection mark to the last item.
Enter	As a general rule, it activates the inplace control of a property. If this inplace control already has the focus, it validates it.
Escape	If an inplace editbox has the focus, the previous text is restored and the inplace control looses the focus.
TAB	When a property item is selected, it moves the focus to a first subpart of the inplace control, then if hit again it moves the focus to a next subpart, and so on, then it focuses on the PropertyGrid again. When the PropertyGrid is in a dialog box, TAB also preserves browsing all the controls of the dialog. If Shift is used, it does the same but in reverse direction.
Delete	If the selected item has an editbox, it deletes its content.
Alphanumeric	If the selected property has an editbox, it gets the focus and the key typed is put inside.
Spacebar	Like an alphanumeric key, except when the property has a checkbox, in which case it switches it, or if the property is a hotlink, in which case it activates it.
Plus and minus (numpad)	When the selected item is a category or grouped property, it expands and collapses it respectively.
Alt+down and Alt+up arrows	When the selected item is a combobox, it expands the listbox part.

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