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MemoEdit Properties

Allows you to display and edit multi-line text.
Name Description
AccessibilityObject Gets the AccessibleObject assigned to the control. Inherited from Control.
AccessibleDefaultActionDescription Gets or sets the default action description of the editor for use by accessibility client applications. Inherited from BaseEdit.
AccessibleDescription Gets or sets the object’s description used by accessibility client applications. Inherited from BaseEdit.
AccessibleName Gets or sets the object’s name used by accessibility client applications. Inherited from BaseEdit.
AccessibleRole Gets or sets the object’s accessible role. Inherited from BaseEdit.
AllowDrop Gets or sets a value indicating whether the control can accept data that the user drags onto it. Inherited from Control.
AllowHtmlTextInToolTip Gets or sets whether HTML formatting is allowed in the control’s regular tooltips. Inherited from BaseControl.
Anchor Gets or sets the edges of the container to which a control is bound and determines how a control is resized with its parent. Inherited from Control.
AutoScrollOffset Gets or sets where this control is scrolled to in ScrollControlIntoView(Control). Inherited from Control.
AutoSize This property is not relevant for this class. Inherited from Control.
AutoSizeInLayoutControl

When a control is added to a LayoutControl, this property specifies whether the control’s width is changed to display its content in its entirety. This member is supported by individual descendant of the BaseControl class.

Inherited from BaseControl.
BackColor Gets or sets the editor’s background color. Inherited from TextEdit.
BackgroundImage This property isn’t used. Inherited from TextEdit.
BackgroundImageLayout This property isn’t used. Inherited from TextEdit.
BindingContext Gets or sets the BindingContext for the control. Inherited from Control.
BindingManager Gets the BindingManagerBase object. Inherited from BaseEdit.
BorderStyle Gets or sets the editor’s border style. Inherited from BaseEdit.
Bottom Gets the distance, in pixels, between the bottom edge of the control and the top edge of its container’s client area. Inherited from Control.
Bounds Gets or sets the size and location of the control including its nonclient elements, in pixels, relative to the parent control. Inherited from Control.
CanEnableIme protected Gets a value indicating whether the ImeMode property can be set to an active value, to enable IME support. Inherited from Control.
CanFocus Gets a value indicating whether the control can receive focus. Inherited from Control.
CanRaiseEvents protected Determines if events can be raised on the control. Inherited from Control.
CanSelect Gets a value indicating whether the control can be selected. Inherited from Control.
CanShowDialog For internal use. Inherited from BaseEdit.
CanUndo Gets a value indicating whether the previous edit operation can be undone. Inherited from TextEdit.
Capture Gets or sets a value indicating whether the control has captured the mouse. Inherited from Control.
CausesValidation Gets or sets a value indicating whether the control causes validation to be performed on any controls that require validation when it receives focus. Inherited from Control.
CheckForIllegalCrossThreadCalls static Gets or sets a value indicating whether to catch calls on the wrong thread that access a control’s Handle property when an application is being debugged. Inherited from Control.
ClientRectangle Gets the rectangle that represents the client area of the control. Inherited from Control.
ClientSize Gets or sets the height and width of the client area of the control. Inherited from Control.
CompanyName Gets the name of the company or creator of the application containing the control. Inherited from Control.
Container Gets the IContainer that contains the Component. Inherited from Component.
ContainsFocus Gets a value indicating whether the control, or one of its child controls, currently has the input focus. Inherited from Control.
ContextMenu Gets or sets the context menu for the editor. Inherited from BaseEdit.
Controls Gets the collection of controls contained within the control. Inherited from Control.
Created Gets a value indicating whether the control has been created. Inherited from Control.
Cursor Gets or sets the cursor that is displayed when the mouse pointer is over the ControlBase control. Inherited from ControlBase.
DataBindings Gets the data bindings for the control. Inherited from Control.
DefaultBackColor static Gets the default background color of the control. Inherited from Control.
DefaultErrorIcon static Gets or sets the default error icon. Inherited from BaseEdit.
DefaultErrorIconAlignment static Gets or sets the location of the default error icon in relation to the editor. Inherited from BaseEdit.
DefaultErrorImageOptions static Gets a set of options that allow you to assign and customize the default icon displayed when an error is associated with the editor. Inherited from BaseEdit.
DefaultFont static Gets the default font of the control. Inherited from Control.
DefaultForeColor static Gets the default foreground color of the control. Inherited from Control.
DefaultImeMode protected Gets the default Input Method Editor (IME) mode supported by the control. Inherited from Control.
DefaultMargin protected Gets the space, in pixels, that is specified by default between controls. Inherited from Control.
DefaultMaximumSize protected Gets the length and height, in pixels, that is specified as the default maximum size of a control. Inherited from Control.
DefaultMinimumSize protected Gets the length and height, in pixels, that is specified as the default minimum size of a control. Inherited from Control.
DefaultPadding protected Gets the internal spacing, in pixels, of the contents of a control. Inherited from Control.
DesignMode protected Gets a value that indicates whether the Component is currently in design mode. Inherited from Component.
DisplayRectangle Gets the rectangle that represents the display area of the control. Inherited from Control.
Disposing Gets a value indicating whether the base Control class is in the process of disposing. Inherited from Control.
Dock Gets or sets which control borders are docked to its parent control and determines how a control is resized with its parent. Inherited from Control.
DoubleBuffered protected Gets or sets a value indicating whether this control should redraw its surface using a secondary buffer to reduce or prevent flicker. Inherited from Control.
EditorContainsFocus Tests whether the editor or its popup window has focus. Inherited from BaseEdit.
EditorTypeName Gets the class name of the current editor.
EditValue Gets or sets the editor’s value. Inherited from BaseEdit.
Enabled Gets or sets a value indicating whether the control can respond to user interaction. Inherited from Control.
EnterMoveNextControl Gets or sets whether focus is moved to the next control (according to the tab order) when an end-user presses ENTER. Inherited from BaseEdit.
ErrorIcon Gets or sets an icon displayed when an error is associated with the editor. Inherited from BaseEdit.
ErrorIconAlignment Gets or sets the alignment of the icon displayed when an error is associated with the editor. Inherited from BaseEdit.
ErrorImageOptions Gets a set of options that allow you to assign and customize an icon displayed when an error is associated with the editor. Inherited from BaseEdit.
ErrorText Gets or sets the tooltip displayed when the mouse pointer hovers over the error icon. Inherited from BaseEdit.
Events protected Gets the list of event handlers that are attached to this Component. Inherited from Component.
Focused Gets a value indicating whether the control has input focus. Inherited from Control.
Font Gets or sets the font used to display editor contents. Inherited from BaseEdit.
FontHeight protected Gets or sets the height of the font of the control. Inherited from Control.
ForeColor Gets or sets the editor content’s foreground color. Inherited from BaseEdit.
Handle Gets the window handle that the control is bound to. Inherited from Control.
HasChildren Gets a value indicating whether the control contains one or more child controls. Inherited from Control.
Height Gets or sets the height of the control. Inherited from Control.
ImeMode Gets or sets the Input Method Editor (IME) mode of the control. Inherited from Control.
ImeModeBase protected Gets or sets the IME mode of a control. Inherited from Control.
InplaceType Gets or sets the inplace type of an editor. Inherited from BaseEdit.
InvokeRequired Gets a value indicating whether the caller must call an invoke method when making method calls to the control because the caller is on a different thread than the one the control was created on. Inherited from Control.
IsAccessible Gets or sets a value indicating whether the control is visible to accessibility applications. Inherited from Control.
IsDesignMode Gets a value indicating whether the control is currently in design mode. Inherited from BaseControl.
IsDisposed Gets a value indicating whether the control has been disposed of. Inherited from Control.
IsDrawing This member supports the internal infrastructure, and is not intended to be used directly from your code. Inherited from BaseEdit.
IsEditorActive Gets whether the editor is active. Inherited from TextEdit.
IsHandleCreated Gets a value indicating whether the control has a handle associated with it. Inherited from Control.
IsLoading Gets a value indicating whether the editor is being loaded. Inherited from BaseEdit.
IsMirrored Gets a value indicating whether the control is mirrored. Inherited from Control.
IsModified Gets or sets whether the editor’s value has been modified since the editor last received focus or since it was last validated. Inherited from BaseEdit.
IsNeedFocus This member supports the internal editors library infrastructure and is not intended to be used from your code. Inherited from TextEdit.
IsRightToLeft Gets whether the ControlBase‘s visual elements are actually aligned to support locales using right-to-left fonts. Inherited from ControlBase.
LayoutEngine Gets a cached instance of the control’s layout engine. Inherited from Control.
Left Gets or sets the distance, in pixels, between the left edge of the control and the left edge of its container’s client area. Inherited from Control.
Lines Gets or sets the lines of text within a memo edit control.
Location Gets or sets the coordinates of the upper-left corner of the control relative to the upper-left corner of its container. Inherited from Control.
LookAndFeel Gets an object containing the editor’s look and feel settings. Inherited from BaseEdit.
Margin Gets or sets the space between controls. Inherited from Control.
MaskBox Gets the text box that provides text editing functionality, or null (Nothing in VB.NET) if the editor is in Advanced Mode. Inherited from TextEdit.
MaximumSize Gets or sets the size that is the upper limit that GetPreferredSize(Size) can specify. Inherited from Control.
MenuManager Gets or sets an object that controls the look and feel of the popup menus. Inherited from BaseEdit.
MinimumSize Gets or sets the size that is the lower limit that GetPreferredSize(Size) can specify. Inherited from Control.
ModifierKeys static Gets a value indicating which of the modifier keys (SHIFT, CTRL, and ALT) is in a pressed state. Inherited from Control.
MouseButtons static Gets a value indicating which of the mouse buttons is in a pressed state. Inherited from Control.
MousePosition static Gets the position of the mouse cursor in screen coordinates. Inherited from Control.
Name Gets or sets the name of the control. Inherited from Control.
OldEditValue Gets the last successfully validated value. Inherited from BaseEdit.
Padding This property is not supported by the BaseEdit class. Inherited from BaseEdit.
Parent Gets or sets the parent container of the control. Inherited from Control.
PopupServiceControl static This member supports the internal infrastructure, and is not intended to be used directly from your code. Inherited from BaseEdit.
PreferredSize Gets the size of a rectangular area into which the control can fit. Inherited from Control.
ProductName Gets the product name of the assembly containing the control. Inherited from Control.
ProductVersion Gets the version of the assembly containing the control. Inherited from Control.
PropagatingImeMode protected static Gets an object that represents a propagating IME mode. Inherited from Control.
Properties Gets an object containing properties and methods specific to a memo editor.
ReadOnly Gets or sets whether the editor’s value cannot be changed by end-users. Inherited from BaseEdit.
RecreatingHandle Gets a value indicating whether the control is currently re-creating its handle. Inherited from Control.
Region Gets or sets the window region associated with the control. Inherited from Control.
RenderRightToLeft protected This property is now obsolete. Inherited from Control.
ResizeRedraw protected Gets or sets a value indicating whether the control redraws itself when resized. Inherited from Control.
Right Gets the distance, in pixels, between the right edge of the control and the left edge of its container’s client area. Inherited from Control.
RightToLeft Gets or sets a value indicating whether control’s elements are aligned to support locales using right-to-left fonts. Inherited from Control.
ScaleChildren protected Gets a value that determines the scaling of child controls. Inherited from Control.
ScaleFactor Returns scale multipliers that are currently applied to a control’s original width and height. Inherited from BaseControl.
SelectedText Gets or sets a value that indicates the selected text in the editor. Inherited from TextEdit.
SelectionLength Gets or sets the number of characters selected in the text box. Inherited from TextEdit.
SelectionStart Gets or sets the starting point of text selected in the text box. Inherited from TextEdit.
ServiceObject This method is used internally when using editors inplace and is not intended to be called in your code. Inherited from BaseEdit.
ShowFocusCues protected Gets a value indicating whether the control should display focus rectangles. Inherited from Control.
ShowKeyboardCues protected Gets a value indicating whether the user interface is in the appropriate state to show or hide keyboard accelerators. Inherited from Control.
ShowToolTips Gets or sets whether a tooltip should be displayed when the mouse pointer is over the control. Inherited from BaseControl.
Site Gets or sets the site of the control. Inherited from Control.
Size Gets or sets the height and width of the control. Inherited from Control.
StyleController Gets or sets the style controller component that provides style settings for this control. Inherited from BaseControl.
SuperTip Gets or sets a SuperToolTip for the current control. Inherited from BaseControl.
SuppressModifierKey Gets or sets whether to suppress the specified keyboard key for the editor. Inherited from BaseEdit.
TabIndex Gets or sets the tab order of the control within its container. Inherited from Control.
TabStop Gets or sets a value indicating whether the user can focus this control using the TAB key. Inherited from TextEdit.
Tag Gets or sets the object that contains data about the control. Inherited from Control.
Text
ToolTip Gets or sets a regular tooltip’s text content. Inherited from BaseControl.
ToolTipAnchor Gets or sets whether the tooltip is anchored relative to the mouse cursor or relative to the editor. This property is not in effect if you handle the ToolTipController.GetActiveObjectInfo event. Inherited from BaseEdit.
ToolTipController Gets or sets the tooltip controller component that controls the appearance, position and content of hints displayed for this control. Inherited from BaseControl.
ToolTipIconType Gets or sets the type of the tooltip icon. Inherited from BaseControl.
ToolTipTitle Gets or sets a regular tooltip’s title. Inherited from BaseControl.
Top Gets or sets the distance, in pixels, between the top edge of the control and the top edge of its container’s client area. Inherited from Control.
TopLevelControl Gets the parent control that is not parented by another Windows Forms control. Typically, this is the outermost Form that the control is contained in. Inherited from Control.
UseOptimizedRendering Gets or sets whether the MemoEdit control uses an optimized rendering mechanism.
UseWaitCursor Gets or sets a value indicating whether to use the wait cursor for the current control and all child controls. Inherited from Control.
Visible Gets or sets a value indicating whether the control and all its child controls are displayed. Inherited from Control.
Width Gets or sets the width of the control. Inherited from Control.
WindowTarget This property is not relevant for this class. Inherited from Control.
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