The best (and pretty much only) way I have ever found to address this kind of problem is to hook into the EditingControlShowing event of the DataGridView. When you do, you can detect that it is a ComboBoxCell being shown, and that the control is a DataGridViewComboBoxEditingControl (or something to that effect). This control is a very simple child class of the normal ComboBox control with a few extra properties for databinding in a data grid. In the EditingControlShowing event, you can hook into the ComboBox as you normally would, and detect when its data changes and when it is closing. When it is closing, you can edit the data being bound to the ComboBox's available items list. One caveat, I've never tried this. It may be impossible - I don't know exactly what order the DataGridView would carry out this operation (control closes->you add new item to bound data list->DataGridView validates the input against this new list). It may be that the data is validated before it will change the list of data, in which case you're up a creek unless you can find some way to add new items as the user is typing. At any rate, if this is possible at all, you'll probably find some way to do it using this event. There may be another way, and I'm all ears if there is - these are the kinds of problems I love solving with the DGV :)

listen, i don´t know if you can set a cell to readonly (or not) like you do in datagridview. Did you considered in setting values not in the DGV? i set dgv to readonly and get/set values in textboxes, comboboxes from dgv currentrow, i have 20 columns in dgv but only 14 textboxes or whatever, the ones i want to edit. ;P nelsonpaixao@yahoo.com.br trying to help & get help

Hi David, As Tom explained, with the Microsoft PropertyGrid, you can't create subcategories. You can only create kind of container-like properties that you publish with a custom type descriptor. If a commercial product is an option for you, only Smart PropertyGrid.Net is able to create true subcategories. Best regards, Nicolas Cadilhac @ VisualHint Smart PropertyGrid.Net Microsoft PropertyGrid Resource List Free PropertyGrid for MFC Smart FieldPackEditor.Net / DateTimePicker

The struct I had defined was pretty much the same except for the COLORREF parts. I had seen on PInvoke what you said about COLORREF being an int. The good news is that the memory exception went away when I fixed all the structs (using mine as well as your new one). The bad news is that it still isn't actually doing anything. I'll include my overridden WndProc for you to look at, and I'll make a couple of comments on it below: protected override void WndProc(ref System.Windows.Forms.Message m) { //Always perform default functionality base.WndProc(ref m); //Check to see if it is a WM\_NOTIFY msg if (m.Msg == WM\_NOTIFY) { //NMHDR nmHdr = new NMHDR(); //nmHdr = (NMHDR)m.GetLParam(typeof(NMHDR)); nmlvCust = (NMLVCUSTOMDRAW)m.GetLParam(typeof(NMLVCUSTOMDRAW)); if (nmlvCust.nmcd.hdr.code == NM\_CUSTOMDRAW) { //Have windows do default drawing in case we don't make any changes m.Result = (IntPtr)CDRF\_DODEFAULT; Debug.WriteLine("In CustomDraw. dwDrawStage = " + nmlvCust.nmcd.dwDrawStage ". Result = " + m.Result); if (nmlvCust.nmcd.dwDrawStage == CDDS\_PREPAINT) { //We will notify windows that we want messages for each item m.Result = (IntPtr)CDRF\_NOTIFYITEMDRAW; Debug.WriteLine("In PrePaint. dwDrawStage = " + nmlvCust.nmcd.dwDrawStage + ". Result = " + m.Result); } else if (nmlvCust.nmcd.dwDrawStage == CDDS\_ITEMPREPAINT) { //We will notify windows that we want messages for each subitem m.Result = (IntPtr)CDRF\_NOTIFYSUBITEMDRAW; Debug.WriteLine("In ItemPrePaint. dwDrawStage = " + mlvCust.nmcd.dwDrawStage + ". Result = " + m.Result); } else if (nmlvCust.nmcd.dwDrawStage == (CDDS\_ITEMPREPAINT | CDDS\_SUBITEM)) { //Here's where we do our stuff if (nmlvCust.iSubItem == 0) { nmlvCust.clrText = ColorTranslator.ToWin32(SystemColors.Control); nmlvCust.clrTextBk = ColorTranslator.ToWin32(SystemColors.Info); }

Thanks for the suggestion, but it turns out the problem was something totally different. The textbox in question is part of a CustomControl, and when I declared the public Attribute for Text I accidentally used the "new" keyword instead of "override". So, when I set .Text for the control, it was not actually setting the .Text for the TextBox part of the CustomControl like it was supposed to. Turns out the code snippet I put in my original message DOES work just fine. Thanks anyway for the response.

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Crap! I thought CLI was for regular (non-Visual) C++... where's that then? :~ Thanks! ;-) BTW, David, I don't know how to do it in C++, but in C# you used: using System.Windows.Forms; It should be quite similar... ;) Lord Kixdemp www.SulfurMidis.com www.SulfurSoft.tk [ftp://][http://][hotline://]tsfc.ath.cx

OK, it looks like I solved my own problem. Just in case anyone else is interested, here's what I found: CPaintDC dc(this); //get a DC for the control //The next several lines create a compatible bitmap in memory // and draw a solid light green "bitmap" on it, // then select that bitmap into the DC in memory pDCMem = new CDC; pDCMem->CreateCompatibleDC(&dc); bmp.CreateCompatibleBitmap(&dc,rc.Width(),rc.Height()); pOldBitmap = pDCMem->SelectObject(&bmp); CBrush brush; brush.CreateSolidBrush(RGB(122,255,122)); pDCMem->FillRect(rc, &brush); //After drawing on the DC in memory (text and whatever else) // use BitBlt to merge the bitmap in memory with what's on screen dc.BitBlt(0,0,rc.Width(),rc.Height(),pDCMem,0,0,SRCAND); //SRCAND combines the src and dest DCs using boolean AND //Then clean up pDCMem->SelectObject ( pOldBitmap ) ; delete pDCMem; And it works. Now the CStatic is light green, with text on it (which I did not include in the code snippet) and the bitmap "behind" it can be seen greenishly colored through it.

I've never used the IHTMLEditDesigner interface. When I need to provide DHTML into a CHtmlView I use JavaScript inside the DHTML code and search for a certain tag id (get_id). In the case you've exposed, I agree with you that get_srcElement it'd be the correct method to know the event source. Have you trusted that TranslateAccelerator only fires one time for each keybord hit? I mean if you validate the DISPID (DISPID_HTMLELEMENTEVENTS2) to be the correct one. Marc Soleda. ... she said you are the perfect stranger she said baby let's keep it like this... Tunnel of Love, Dire Straits.

Well, either no one could answer this, or no one noticed the question, or no one wanted to answer it. Regardless, I did some checking and finally found one solution (although not necessarily the best nor necessarily the solution I want to use -- I'll know once I play with it more). Anyway, one way to restrict where the user can edit, is to simply put the areas of the HTML document you want to protect into a DIV and within that tag include "contentEditable=false". E.g. " " When you do that, what you will find is that keyboard input is cancelled within that section, even though you can highlight things. I kept the drag-cancel implemented in this article to prevent the user from dragging this DIV around. It all seems to work, except that I did notice that when you click within the protected DIV, the editor puts handles around the DIV area that allow you to resize that DIV area. I have not experimented yet to see what effect this has on the HTML document once you save it. Anyway, just in case someone else was looking for an answer to this question, this is at least one partial answer.

Perfect. Thanks.

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Fantastic! It works perfectly. Thanks a bunch.

I can get a CWnd* by using CWnd* pWnd = GetDlgItem(IDC_TAB_LISTS). But using LRESULT lRes = pWnd->SendMessage(TCN_SELCHANGE) still returns 0 (fails) and does nothing. I'm thinking I'm doing something wrong with regard to SendMessage. Again, suggestions are greatly welcome. Thanks.

Yes - the guy "Mr Picky" is a mate of mine who wrote just to let me know that my code was messy and unweildy (What are friends for, eh? ;)) cheers, Chris Maunder

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Yeah, I noticed that the strcat(szSrc, "\0\0") did nothing. Thanks for the suggestion (zero filling the array) -- it worked like a charm. I just don't think I would have ever thought of it. BTW, I've enjoyed your articles. Keep up the excellent work and thanks a bunch.

Take a look at COleDateTime::ParseDateTime() Dave

If you use OLE it will display those cursors for you (I think). Otherwise you can find them in ole32.dll. You can either extract the cursors or you can... HMODULE hDll = LoadLibrary(TEXT("ole32.dll")); HCURSOR hCursor = LoadCursor(hDll, id); The resource IDs are the following: #define IDC_DRAG_CANNOT 1 #define IDC_DRAG_MOVE 2 #define IDC_DRAG_COPY 3 #define IDC_DRAG_LINK 4