ComboBoxEdit.SelectedIndexChanged Event

Occurs when the selection moves from one ComboBoxEditor item to another.

Namespace: DevExpress.XtraEditors

Assembly: DevExpress.XtraEditors.v23.2.dll

NuGet Package: DevExpress.Win.Navigation

Declaration

C#

[DXCategory("Events")]
public event EventHandler SelectedIndexChanged

VB.NET

<DXCategory("Events")>
Public Event SelectedIndexChanged As EventHandler

Event Data

The SelectedIndexChanged event's data class is EventArgs.

Remarks

The SelectedIndexChanged is identical to the RepositoryItemComboBox.SelectedIndexChanged event available through the ComboBoxEdit.Properties group.

Refer to the RepositoryItemComboBox.SelectedIndexChanged topic for more information.

Note

This event fires only when the selected item changes. Although modifying the editor’s item collection may also indirectly change the ComboBoxEdit.SelectedIndex property value (e.g., when you insert an item before the currently selected one), these modifications do not trigger the SelectedIndexChanged event.

Important

The SelectedIndexChanged does not fire when a previous and a currently selected items are equal objects.

Example

Consider a combo box editor displaying different font styles (regular, bold, italic, underline, strikeout). When you select an item from the dropdown list, a corresponding font style is applied to the combo box editor.

Combo box items in this example represent strings identifying names of specific font styles. In the ComboBoxEdit.SelectedIndexChanged event handler, we determine the currently selected item and convert it to a corresponding value of type FontStyle. Then the new font is applied to the editor.

The following image shows a combo box editor when the Underline item is selected.

C#

  comboBoxEdit1.EditValue = "Regular";
  comboBoxEdit1.Properties.Items.AddRange(new object[] 
    {"Bold", "Italic", "Regular", "StrikeOut", "Underline"});
  comboBoxEdit1.SelectedIndexChanged += new System.EventHandler(
    this.comboBoxEdit1_SelectedIndexChanged);
//...
 private void comboBoxEdit1_SelectedIndexChanged(object sender, EventArgs e) {
     EnumConverter ec = TypeDescriptor.GetConverter(typeof(FontStyle)) as EnumConverter;
     var cBox = sender as ComboBoxEdit;
     if (cBox.SelectedIndex != -1) {
         FontStyle selectedFontStyle = (FontStyle)ec.ConvertFrom(
           cBox.Properties.Items[cBox.SelectedIndex]);
         cBox.Properties.Appearance.FontStyleDelta = selectedFontStyle;
     }
 }

VB.NET

  ComboBoxEdit1.EditValue = "Regular"
  ComboBoxEdit1.Properties.Items.AddRange(New Object() _
    {"Bold", "Italic", "Regular", "StrikeOut", "Underline"})
'...
  Private Sub ComboBoxEdit1_SelectedIndexChanged(ByVal sender As Object, _
    ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles ComboBoxEdit1.SelectedIndexChanged
     Dim ec As EnumConverter = TryCast(TypeDescriptor.GetConverter(GetType(FontStyle)), EnumConverter)
     Dim cBox = TryCast(sender, ComboBoxEdit)
     If cBox.SelectedIndex <> -1 Then
         Dim selectedFontStyle As FontStyle = CType(ec.ConvertFrom(cBox.Properties.Items(cBox.SelectedIndex)), FontStyle)
         cBox.Properties.Appearance.FontStyleDelta = selectedFontStyle
     End If
  End Sub

Related GitHub Examples

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C#

XPO_how-to-create-an-xpclassinfo-descendant-to-dynamically-build-a-persistent-class-structure-e1729/CS/DynamicDataTable/Form1.cs#L28

cmbTables.Properties.Items.AddRange(tablesList);
cmbTables.SelectedIndexChanged += delegate(object sender, EventArgs args) {
    FillGrid(cmbTables.Text);

VB.NET

XPO_how-to-create-an-xpclassinfo-descendant-to-dynamically-build-a-persistent-class-structure-e1729/VB/DynamicDataTable/Form1.vb#L30

cmbTables.Properties.Items.AddRange(tablesList)
AddHandler cmbTables.SelectedIndexChanged, Sub(sender As Object, args As EventArgs)
    FillGrid(cmbTables.Text)