TcxCustomInplaceEditContainer.RepositoryItem Property

Specifies an edit repository item for the data item.

Declaration

property RepositoryItem: TcxEditRepositoryItem read; write;

Property Value

Type	Description
TcxEditRepositoryItem	An edit repository item component.

Remarks

A data item in a container control can use any editor shipped with the ExpressEditors Library as an in-place editor for cell edit operations. An in-place editor instance exists (therefore, has its own WinAPI handle) only when a data item cell is being edited. Otherwise, the data item displays a static editor image for resource usage optimization.

In this topic…

• Use Edit Repository Items
• Available Edit Repository Item Types
  • B — Bar Code/BLOB/Button Editors
  • C — Calculator | Check Box | Combo Box | …
  • D — Date & Time Editors
  • F — Font Name Combo Box & Formatted Label
  • H — Hyperlink Editor
  • I — Image Combo Box & Image Editors
  • L — Label
  • L — Lookup Editors
  • M — Mask/Memo/MRU Editors
  • N — Numeric Wheel Picker Editor
  • P — Pop-Up Editor & Progress Bar
  • R — Radio Group | Range Track Bar | RTF Editor | …
  • S — Sparkline & Spin Editors
  • T — Text Editor | Time Editor | Toggle Switch | …
• Code Example: Shared In-Place Editor Settings
• Default In-Place Editors
• RepositoryItem Properties in Other Products

Use Edit Repository Items

To assign an in-place editor to the data item, you can create and configure an edit repository item component, and then assign it to the RepositoryItem property.

Tip

Edit repository items are useful when you need to share in-place editor settings between multiple data items in a container control or change active editor settings in OnGetEditProperties and OnGetEditingProperties event handlers.

Available Edit Repository Item Types

Every repository item type defines the corresponding in-place editor type and stores editor settings. You can access and modify these settings using the TcxEditRepositoryItem.Properties property.

The following table lists all available edit repository item types (terminal TcxEditRepositoryItem class descendants) and corresponding in-place editor classes:

B — Bar Code/BLOB/Button Editors

Repository Item Class	In-Place Editor	Description
TcxEditRepositoryBarCodeItem	TdxBarCode	A barcode control without user input functionality.
TcxEditRepositoryBlobItem	TcxBlobEdit	A Binary Large Object (BLOB) editor.
TcxEditRepositoryButtonItem	TcxButtonEdit	A single-line text editor with embedded buttons.

C — Calculator | Check Box | Combo Box | …

Repository Item Class	In-Place Editor	Description
TcxEditRepositoryCalcItem	TcxCalcEdit	A single-line editor with a drop-down calculator window.
TcxEditRepositoryCheckBoxItem	TcxCheckBox	A check box editor with support for three states.
TcxEditRepositoryCheckComboBox	TcxCheckComboBox	A combo box editor that can display items with check boxes.
TcxEditRepositoryCheckGroupItem	TcxCheckGroup	An editor designed to display a set of check boxes.
TcxEditRepositoryColorComboBox	TcxColorComboBox	A color combo box editor.
TcxEditRepositoryColorEdit	TdxColorEdit	An editor designed to select a color in a color gallery embedded into a drop-down window.
TcxEditRepositoryComboBoxItem	TcxComboBox	A general-purpose combo box editor.
TcxEditRepositoryCurrencyItem	TcxCurrencyEdit	A numeric editor for currency values.

D — Date & Time Editors

Repository Item Class	In-Place Editor	Description
TcxEditRepositoryDateItem	TcxDateEdit	A date editor with a drop-down calendar.
TcxEditRepositoryDateTimeWheelPickerItem	TdxDateTimeWheelPicker	A date/time wheel picker editor.

F — Font Name Combo Box & Formatted Label

Repository Item Class	In-Place Editor	Description
TcxEditRepositoryFontNameComboBox	TcxFontNameComboBox	A combo box that allows users to switch between font typefaces.
TcxEditRepositoryFormattedLabel	TdxFormattedLabel	A formatted label without user input functionality.

H — Hyperlink Editor

Repository Item Class	In-Place Editor	Description
TcxEditRepositoryHyperLinkItem	TcxHyperLinkEdit	A hyperlink editor that can execute custom commands.

I — Image Combo Box & Image Editors

Repository Item Class	In-Place Editor	Description
TcxEditRepositoryImageComboBoxItem	TcxImageComboBox	A combo box designed to display both text and images in items.
TcxEditRepositoryImageItem	TcxImage	An editor designed to display and edit images.

L — Label

Repository Item Class	In-Place Editor	Description
TcxEditRepositoryLabel	TcxLabel	An unformatted label without user input functionality.

L — Lookup Editors

Warning

Do not use repository items to share settings between multiple lookup editors because these settings include data binding options.

A repository item shared between multiple lookup editors binds them to the same dataset. This scenario may lead to data update and synchronization issues that are difficult to detect and identify.

Repository Item Class	In-Place Editor	Description
TcxEditRepositoryExtLookupComboBoxItem	TcxExtLookupComboBox	A lookup editor that displays a Data Grid View in a drop-down window.
TcxEditRepositoryLookupComboBoxItem	TcxLookupComboBox	A lookup combo box populated with values from a data source.
TcxEditRepositoryLookupSparklineItem	TdxLookupSparklineEdit	A lookup sparkline editor.

M — Mask/Memo/MRU Editors

Repository Item Class	In-Place Editor	Description
TcxEditRepositoryMaskItem	TcxMaskEdit	A single-line text editor with support for input masks.
TcxEditRepositoryMemoItem	TcxMemo	A multi-line editor for plain text.
TcxEditRepositoryMRUItem	TcxMRUEdit	A single-line text editor that displays a list of most recently used (MRU) items in a drop-down window.

N — Numeric Wheel Picker Editor

Repository Item Class	In-Place Editor	Description
TcxEditRepositoryNumericWheelPickerItem	TdxNumericWheelPicker	A numeric value wheel picker editor.

P — Pop-Up Editor & Progress Bar

Repository Item Class	In-Place Editor	Description
TcxEditRepositoryPopupItem	TcxPopupEdit	A text editor that can embed a control in a pop-up window.
TcxEditRepositoryProgressBar	TcxProgressBar	A progress bar without user input functionality.

R — Radio Group | Range Track Bar | RTF Editor | …

Repository Item Class	In-Place Editor	Description
TcxEditRepositoryRadioGroupItem	TcxRadioGroup	A container for radio buttons.
TcxEditRepositoryRangeTrackBar	TdxRangeTrackBar	A track bar editor with two sliders designed to select a range of values.
TcxEditRepositoryRatingControl	TdxRatingControl	A rating editor.
TcxEditRepositoryRichItem	TcxRichEdit	A multi-line rich text editor.

S — Sparkline & Spin Editors

Repository Item Class	In-Place Editor	Description
TcxEditRepositorySparklineItem	TdxSparklineEdit	An editor designed to visualize data as lightweight charts without axes and labels.
TcxEditRepositorySpinItem	TcxSpinEdit	A general-purpose numeric spin editor.

T — Text Editor | Time Editor | Toggle Switch | …

Repository Item Class	In-Place Editor	Description
TcxEditRepositoryTextItem	TcxTextEdit	A simple single-line text editor.
TcxEditRepositoryTimeItem	TcxTimeEdit	A spin editor for time values.
TcxEditRepositoryToggleSwitchItem	TdxToggleSwitch	A toggle switch editor.
TcxEditRepositoryTokenItem	TdxTokenEdit	A token editor.
TcxEditRepositoryTrackBar	TcxTrackBar	A track bar editor with two sliders for value range selection.

Note

The RepositoryItem property has priority over Properties, PropertiesClass, and PropertiesClassName properties. These properties have no effect when the RepositoryItem property is specified.

Code Example: Shared In-Place Editor Settings

The following code example creates two unbound tree list columns and uses a date editor repository item to assign an in-place date editor to them:

Delphi

uses cxCalendar, cxEditRepositoryItems;
// ...
var
  AColumn1, AColumn2: TcxTreeListColumn;
  ARepositoryItem: TcxEditRepositoryDateItem;
begin
  AColumn1 := cxTreeList1.CreateColumn; // Creates a new unbound column
  AColumn2 := cxTreeList2.CreateColumn; // Creates another unbound column
  // Creates a repository item that defines a date editor and stores its settings
  ARepositoryItem := cxEditRepository1.CreateItem(TcxEditRepositoryDateItem) as TcxEditRepositoryDateItem;
  ARepositoryItem.Properties.ShowToday := False; // Hides the "Today" link
  ARepositoryItem.Properties.DateButtons := [btnClear, btnToday]; // Adds the "Today" button
  AColumn1.RepositoryItem := ARepositoryItem;
  AColumn2.RepositoryItem := ARepositoryItem;
end;

C++

#include "cxCalendar.hpp"
#include "cxEditRepositoryItems.hpp"
// ...
  TcxTreeListColumn *AColumn1, *AColumn2;
  TcxEditRepositoryDateItem *ARepositoryItem;
  // ...
  AColumn1 = cxTreeList1->CreateColumn(); // Creates a new unbound column
  AColumn2 = cxTreeList1->CreateColumn(); // Creates another unbound column
  // Creates a repository item that defines a date editor and stores its settings
  ARepositoryItem = dynamic_cast<TcxEditRepositoryDateItem*>(cxEditRepository1->CreateItem(__classid(TcxEditRepositoryDateItem)));
  ARepositoryItem->Properties->ShowToday = false; // Hides the "Today" link
  ARepositoryItem->Properties->DateButtons = TDateButtons() << btnClear << btnToday; // Adds the "Today" button
  AColumn1->RepositoryItem = ARepositoryItem;
  AColumn2->RepositoryItem = ARepositoryItem;

Default In-Place Editors

A data item in a container control uses the default in-place editor if Properties, PropertiesClass, PropertiesClassName, and RepositoryItem properties are unspecified. The container control item uses one of the following in-place editors as default depending on DataBinding.ValueType and DataBinding.ValueTypeClass property values:

ValueType[1] Value	ValueTypeClass[1] Value	Default Editor
Boolean	TcxBooleanValueType	TcxCheckBox
Currency	TcxCurrencyValueType	TcxCurrencyEdit
DateTime	TcxDateTimeValueType	TcxDateEdit
FMTBcd	TcxFMTBcdValueType	TcxCurrencyEdit
SQLTimeStamp	TcxSQLTimeStampValueType	TcxDateEdit
Any other value	Any other value	TcxTextEdit

RepositoryItem Properties in Other Products

TcxCustomBarEditItem.RepositoryItem

Specifies an edit repository item component for the toolbar editor item.

TcxCustomEdit.RepositoryItem

Specifies an edit repository item that stores editor settings.

TcxCustomEditorRowProperties.RepositoryItem

Specifies an edit repository item component for the vertical grid row.

TcxCustomGridTableItem.RepositoryItem

Specifies an edit repository item component for the grid table item.

TcxLookupGridColumn.RepositoryItem

Specifies the repository item used as an editor for a specific column’s content.

TcxPivotGridField.RepositoryItem

Specifies an edit repository item component for the pivot grid field.

Footnotes

1. DataBinding.ValueType and DataBinding.ValueTypeClass property values define the default in-place editor for the container control item regardless of the active data access mode.