VB.NET : Extended Combobox to better visually handle being disabled

re: VB.NET : Extended Combobox to better visually handle being disabled

Bib34690 — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 17:39:14 GMT

Super...

plus fort que Crosoft.

merci.

re: VB.NET : Extended Combobox to better visually handle being disabled

software development company — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 15:46:53 GMT

That was an inspiring post,

Keep up the good work

re: VB.NET : Extended Combobox to better visually handle being disabled

Matthew Kleinwaks — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 18:42:17 GMT

Those 2 buttons are expand to all monitors, and move to other monitor. They are a feature of a program called UltraMon which is a tool that picks up where Windows lacks in support for multiple monitors. Since I run 4 LCDs on my work computer, it is very useful. They show up on all Win32 windows. The program has other nice features, so if you use more than one monitor, you should check it out.

re: VB.NET : Extended Combobox to better visually handle being disabled

Edneeis — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 04:16:34 GMT

What are the extra two buttons in the Title bar (by the Min/Max and Close buttons)?

re: VB.NET : Extended Combobox to better visually handle being disabled

Matthew Kleinwaks — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 20:08:31 GMT

gw,

after reading your comment again, i realized you were talking about the dropdown button to drop down the list (I should have read it more clearly the first time).

Yeah that was one of the drawbacks to this workaround. I never really looked too hard at a solution for that, but there may or may not be an easy one to implement.

I was able to at least mimic the behavior of the VB example in C# though. What was your specific issue with using new versus shadows?

re: VB.NET : Extended Combobox to better visually handle being disabled

Matthew Kleinwaks — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 14:06:27 GMT

For any methods you want to handle the disabled functionality, you would just override them to act how you want in the case where the control should be disabled.

As for the C# New versus the VB shadows, I think this may be one of those cases where VB has an upper hand with the way it works and the shadows keyword. I will mess around with it in C# and see about getting this example working.

re: VB.NET : Extended Combobox to better visually handle being disabled

gw — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 22:34:33 GMT

Nice workaround, but the dropdown button still acts enabled (color, mouseover color) when in disabled mode. In c#, couldn't get the "new" keword to work on the Enabled property (vs VB Shadows) in such a way that the Set method would get called. Ended up just using the class' base Enabled property since the OnEnabledChanged was overridden (don't call base.OnEnabledChanged).