I am having a somewhat similar issue. I have an UltraGrid Column editor control set to an UltraComboEditor. I have set the AutoCompleteMode to SuggestAppend on both the ComboEditor and the grid column.

When I run the app and type in the grid column - it populates the cell with the matching value and highlights the whole value as it should. 

My problem is that it sets the cursor to the end of the highlighted text rather than the beginning. 

e.g - The values in the comboeditor are - Public, On Demand, Sealed.

If I type in a P then it shows Public with the 'ublic' highlighted. But the cursor sits to the right of 'c' rather than next to the 'P'.

so then if I type a 'u' it puts it at the end of the word thereby making my selection invalid since 'Publicu' is not in the list.

I have tried to set the property in code as Goran said above but still no success. 

Please help!

The only reason I can think of why that would happen is if you also have CellMultiline set to true for the column. You can't do AutoSuggest and CellMultiline together.

Thanks a bunch Mike!

I have been struggling with this issue for the last 2-3 months and tried everything.

The CellMultiline property for this column is set to Default - but the one for the overall Grid was set to True.

I changed the property to false for this column and it works!!! ~smile~

Thanks again!!!

It's not obvious that the two properties don't work well together. It all stems from a quirk in the behavior of the TextBox control, which fires different events depending on whether it's multiline or not. Whehn multiline is true and you overwrite text in the TextBox, the TextChanged event fires twice, whereas when Multiline is false, it only fires once.

Hi Mike,

How can i make CellMultiLine and AutoComplete work together as i have a requirement with such functionality

Thanks

Aarti

Hi,

One more thing. If i cannot use MultiLine and type ahead together then how do i wrap the cell text if it is greater than the width of cell. I do need the type ahead functionality and want to wrap my cell text without it getting truncated after it extends cell width.

Aarti

Hi,

I'm sorry, but there is no way that I know of to get these two features to work together properly. The TextBox control fires events differently when Multiline, and there's no way for the control to detect this. So these two features are not supported together.

I have certain items in the list which have there description in square brackets eg: DEL[New Delhi] in such a scenerio i have to display code 'DEL' in first line and '[New Delhi]' in the newLine

Hi,

There is no way to do this and no known workaround. Why do you need CellMultiline set to true when all of your values are a single word, anyway?

the functionality i am looking for is:

Example:

Assume that my datasource contains the following names: Abc, Abcd, Bangalore, Bengule, Delhi, Dear.

In UltraGrid column i have set CellMultiLine to true.

1. Now when i type in the ultragrid column - lets say i type 'b' the value displayed in ultragrid column is completed and 'Bangalore' is displayed as this is the first word for which the first character entered matches.
2. when i type the second character 'e' so as to select 'Bengule'. second character is types at the very end of the first word displayed in ultragrid column i.e 'Bangaloree'.
3. hence the type ahead functionality does not work correctly.

But when i set CellMultiLine to false

1. when i type in the ultragrid column - lets say i type 'b' the value displayed in ultragrid column is completed and 'Bangalore' is displayed as this is the first word for which the first character entered matches.
2. when i type the second character 'e' so as to select 'Bengule'.
3. The type ahead functionality works correctly and now 'Bengule' is displayed in the ultraGrid Column.

Can you suggest some work around through which Correct Type Ahead and CellMultiLine set to true can be achieved.