Firstly - congratulations on a great control!
However, I've stumbled across a potential deal breaker. :(
I have some quite complex data structures that I need to work with. My prototype was written in vb + winforms, but my production app is in wpf mvvm. It basically allows you to set up game controls for games. Below is an example of it in action - you'll see it opens a custom modal window (that I designed) which returns a List(of T) where T is another class (quite complex data structures - thus the need for custom collection editor windows). The PropertyGrid's built-in Collection Editor functionality is not going to be sufficient in itself to do what I need. The video of it in action:
https://youtu.be/u8weURUMjnE
So here are the relevant bits of the data classes:
Public Class Game
Public Property GameControlFunctions As New List(Of GameControlFunction)
End Class
Public Class GameControlFunction
Public Property ID As ObjectId = ObjectId.NewObjectId
Public Property Control As stig.Control
Public Property GameMode As GameMode
Public Property GameFunction As String = Nothing
End Class
And here is the associated UITypeEditor Class and Form:
Public Class GameControlFunctionsUIEditor
Inherits UITypeEditor
Public Overrides Function GetEditStyle(ByVal context As ITypeDescriptorContext) As UITypeEditorEditStyle
If context Is Nothing OrElse context.Instance Is Nothing Then Return MyBase.GetEditStyle(context)
Return UITypeEditorEditStyle.Modal
End Function
Public Overrides Function EditValue(ByVal context As ITypeDescriptorContext, ByVal provider As IServiceProvider,
ByVal value As Object) As Object
Dim editorService As IWindowsFormsEditorService
If context Is Nothing OrElse context.Instance Is Nothing OrElse provider Is Nothing Then Return value
editorService = CType(provider.GetService(GetType(IWindowsFormsEditorService)), IWindowsFormsEditorService)
Dim game As Game = DirectCast(context.Instance, Game)
Dim editorForm As New GameControlFunctionsForm(value, game)
If editorService.ShowDialog(editorForm) = Windows.Forms.DialogResult.OK Then
Return New List(Of GameControlFunction)(editorForm.GameControlFunctionsList)
End If
Return value
End Function
End Class
Public Class GameControlFunctionsForm
' This holds the GameControlFunctions List that ultimately updates the GameCOntrolFunctions in Game
Public GameControlFunctionsList As New List(Of GameControlFunction)
' All Other Form logic code here
End Class
I really would like to use this control, but really do need to be able to use custom collection editors. Is this possible at all?
