continue to next cell while typing

[Doug]

Is there any way to continue to the next cell when I type the maximum number of allowed characters in a TextBox cell or MaskEdit cell? Thanks.

[Administrator]

I think you can use CurrentCellChanged to do this for a TextBox.

private void gridControl1_CurrentCellChanged(object sender, System.EventArgs e)
{
	GridCurrentCell cc = this.gridControl1.CurrentCell;
	int len = this.gridControl1[cc.RowIndex, cc.ColIndex].MaxLength;
	if(cc.Renderer.ControlText.Length == len)
	{
		this.gridControl1.CurrentCell.MoveRight(1, false);
	}
}

[Desis Machino]

This works great if I am in insert mode, but if the user is in overwrite mode, and the cell already has the max number of chars, this approach will not work.

Is there a way to determine the location within the cell the user has typed a key? Or is there a better solution?

[Administrator]

You can use code like

GridTextBoxControl tb = cc.Renderer.Control as GridTextBoxControl;

to get the textbox from the currentcell renderer. But, I do not know of a simple way to decide whether you are in the overstrike mode. The TextBox and RichTextBox don't seem to expose such a property.

So, I think any solution will require some more coding to handle the particular situations.