EditorButton.Caption Property

Gets or sets the caption text of the editor button.

Namespace: DevExpress.XtraEditors.Controls

Assembly: DevExpress.XtraEditors.v24.2.dll

Declaration

C#

[DefaultValue("")]
[DXCategory("Appearance")]
public virtual string Caption { get; set; }

VB.NET

<DefaultValue("")>
<DXCategory("Appearance")>
Public Overridable Property Caption As String

Property Value

Type	Default	Description
String	String.Empty	A string specifying button caption text.

Remarks

Text is displayed in the button if the EditorButton.Kind property is set to any of the following values:Glyph, Ellipsis, Delete, OK, Plus, Minus, Redo, Undo or DropDown.

To display only the caption without an image, set the EditorButton.Kind property to Glyph and do not assign any image to the button.

If the button displays a custom or predefined image and the EditorButton.ImageLocation property is set to MiddleCenter, the text is not displayed, but the image is centered within the button.

Related GitHub Examples

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C#

winforms-grid-custom-button-caption-customrowcelledit-event/CS/WindowsApplication1/Form1.cs#L36

repositoryItem.Assign(defaultRepositoryItemButtonEdit);
repositoryItem.Buttons[0].Caption = String.Format("Find: {0}", value);
repositoryItemsCache[value] = repositoryItem;

winforms-custom-buttonedit-display-editvalue-on-button/CS/TestMyButtonEdit/MyButtonEdit.cs#L53

    string str_value = EditValue as string;
    Properties.Buttons[1].Caption = (str_value == null ? string.Empty : str_value);
}

winforms-layoutcontrol-show-ui-controls-in-tabbed-group-header/CS/Form1.cs#L33

riBE.Buttons[0].Kind = DevExpress.XtraEditors.Controls.ButtonPredefines.Glyph;
riBE.Buttons[0].Caption = "Test";
riBE.AutoHeight = false;

gridview-how-to-add-a-custom-button-to-the-filterpanel-t375271/CS/Form1.cs#L37

    EditorButton b = sender as EditorButton;
    Console.WriteLine(string.Format("{0} is clicked",b.Caption));
}

winforms-grid-toggle-row-visibility/CS/WindowsApplication1/Form1.cs#L46

button.Enabled = !(spinEdit1.EditValue == null);
button.Caption = rowVisibilityHelper1.IsRowInvisible(GetButtonEditValue()) ? "Show" : "Hide";

VB.NET

winforms-grid-custom-button-caption-customrowcelledit-event/VB/WindowsApplication1/Form1.vb#L42

repositoryItem.Assign(defaultRepositoryItemButtonEdit)
repositoryItem.Buttons(0).Caption = String.Format("Find: {0}", value)
repositoryItemsCache(value) = repositoryItem

winforms-grid-toggle-row-visibility/VB/WindowsApplication1/Form1.vb#L44

If rowVisibilityHelper1.IsRowInvisible(GetButtonEditValue()) Then
    button.Caption = "Show"
Else

winforms-custom-buttonedit-display-editvalue-on-button/VB/TestMyButtonEdit/MyButtonEdit.vb#L45

    Dim str_value As String = TryCast(EditValue, String)
    Properties.Buttons(1).Caption = (If(str_value Is Nothing, String.Empty, str_value))
End If

winforms-layoutcontrol-show-ui-controls-in-tabbed-group-header/VB/Form1.vb#L33

riBE.Buttons(0).Kind = DevExpress.XtraEditors.Controls.ButtonPredefines.Glyph
riBE.Buttons(0).Caption = "Test"
riBE.AutoHeight = False

gridview-how-to-add-a-custom-button-to-the-filterpanel-t375271/VB/Form1.vb#L34

    Dim b As EditorButton = TryCast(sender, EditorButton)
    Console.WriteLine(String.Format("{0} is clicked",b.Caption))
End Sub