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RepositoryItemSearchControl Properties

An item in an editor container’s repository used to create a SearchControl.
Name Description
AccessibleDefaultActionDescription Gets or sets the default action description of the repository item for use by accessibility client applications. Inherited from RepositoryItem.
AccessibleDescription Gets or sets the object’s description used by accessibility client applications. Inherited from RepositoryItem.
AccessibleName Gets or sets the object’s name used by accessibility client applications. Inherited from RepositoryItem.
AccessibleRole Gets or sets the object’s accessible role. Inherited from RepositoryItem.
ActionButtonIndex This property is not supported by the RepositoryItemSearchControl class.
AdvancedModeOptions Inherited from RepositoryItemTextEdit.
AllowAutoApply Gets or sets whether a search is automatically performed on typing text.
AllowButtonNavigation Gets or sets whether to allow users to focus ButtonEdit buttons with the keyboard. Inherited from RepositoryItemButtonEdit.
AllowContextImageChangeAnimation Gets or sets whether the context image is changed using animation. This property is not in effect for in-place editors. Inherited from RepositoryItemTextEdit.
AllowDropDownWhenReadOnly Gets or sets whether an editor’s dropdown can be displayed when the editor is in the read-only state. Inherited from RepositoryItemPopupBase.
AllowFocused Gets or sets a value specifying whether the focus rectangle is displayed within the editor when it has focus. Inherited from RepositoryItem.
AllowFocusedAppearance Gets a value which indicates whether the appearance settings used to paint the editor when it’s focused can be used. Inherited from RepositoryItem.
AllowGlyphSkinning Gets or sets whether this TextEdit can colorize its icons. Inherited from RepositoryItemTextEdit.
AllowHtmlDraw Gets or sets whether HTML tags can be used to format an editor’s text or text of the editor’s items. Inherited from RepositoryItem.
AllowInplaceAutoFilter This member supports the internal infrastructure, and is not intended to be used directly from your code. Inherited from RepositoryItem.
AllowInplaceBorderPainter This member supports the internal infrastructure, and is not intended to be used directly from your code. Inherited from RepositoryItem.
AllowMouseWheel Gets or sets whether value scrolling via the Mouse Wheel is supported by the editor. Inherited from RepositoryItemTextEdit.
AllowNullInput Gets or sets whether end users can reset the editor’s value to null with the keyboard. Inherited from RepositoryItemTextEdit.
AllowRemoveMRUItems Gets or sets whether close (‘x’) buttons are displayed within dropdown MRU items, allowing an end-user to delete items. Inherited from RepositoryItemMRUEdit.
Appearance Gets appearance settings used to paint the editor when it is enabled. Inherited from RepositoryItem.
AppearanceDisabled Gets appearance settings used to paint the editor when it is disabled. Inherited from RepositoryItem.
AppearanceDropDown Gets appearance settings used to paint the editor’s popup window. Inherited from RepositoryItemPopupBase.
AppearanceFocused Gets appearance settings used to paint the current editor when it is focused. Inherited from RepositoryItem.
AppearanceItemDisabled Provides access to the appearance settings used to paint list items in the disabled state. Inherited from RepositoryItemComboBox.
AppearanceItemHighlight Provides access to the appearance settings used to paint hot tracked list items if items are not automatically selected when hot tracked. Inherited from RepositoryItemComboBox.
AppearanceItemSelected Provides access to the appearance settings used to paint list items in the selected state. Inherited from RepositoryItemComboBox.
AppearanceReadOnly Gets appearance settings used to paint the read-only editor. Inherited from RepositoryItem.
AutoComplete Gets or sets a value that specifies whether the auto completion feature is enabled. Inherited from RepositoryItemMRUEdit.
AutoHeight Gets or sets a value specifying whether the editor’s height is calculated automatically to fit the editor’s content. Inherited from RepositoryItem.
BeepOnError Gets or sets whether the masked editor should play a system error sound when a user enters an invalid character (for example, a literal in an editor with a Numeric mask). This property replaces the BeepOnError property in v20.2 and newer. Inherited from RepositoryItemTextEdit.
BestFitWidth Gets or sets the editor’s best fit width. Inherited from RepositoryItem.
BorderStyle Gets or sets the editor’s border style. Inherited from RepositoryItem.
Buttons Provides access to the collection of buttons in the current SearchControl.
ButtonsBorderStyle Obsolete. This member is not supported. Inherited from RepositoryItemButtonEdit.
ButtonsStyle Gets or sets the style used to draw editor buttons. Inherited from RepositoryItemButtonEdit.
CanRaiseEvents protected Gets a value indicating whether the component can raise an event. Inherited from Component.
CaseSensitiveSearch Gets or sets a value indicating whether the auto completion feature is case sensitive. Inherited from RepositoryItemComboBox.
CharacterCasing Gets or sets the character casing applied to the editor’s content. Inherited from RepositoryItemTextEdit.
Client Gets or sets an ISearchControlClient object whose data is filtered using the SearchControl.
CloseUpKey Gets or sets the key combination used to open and close the pop-up window. Inherited from RepositoryItemPopupBase.
Container Gets the IContainer that contains the Component. Inherited from Component.
ContextButtonOptions This member supports the internal infrastructure, and is not intended to be used directly from your code. This property is not relevant for this class. Inherited from RepositoryItemMRUEdit.
ContextButtons This member supports the internal infrastructure, and is not intended to be used directly from your code. This property is not relevant for this class. Inherited from RepositoryItemMRUEdit.
ContextImage Gets or sets a custom image displayed at the editor’s edge, specified by the RepositoryItemTextEdit.ContextImageAlignment property. Inherited from RepositoryItemTextEdit.
ContextImageAlignment Gets or sets the alignment of an image displayed by this editor. Inherited from RepositoryItemTextEdit.
ContextImageOptions Provides access to all properties that allow you to assign and customize a custom image displayed at the editor’s edge. Inherited from RepositoryItemTextEdit.
ContextMenu Gets or sets the context menu for the editor. Inherited from RepositoryItem.
CycleOnDblClick Gets a value indicating whether the end-user can navigate through dropdown values by double clicking the edit box. Inherited from RepositoryItemComboBox.
DefaultAlignment Gets the default horizontal alignment of the editor’s content. Inherited from RepositoryItem.
DefaultBorderStyleInBars This member supports the internal infrastructure, and is not intended to be used directly from your code. Inherited from RepositoryItem.
DefaultBorderStyleInGrid This member supports the internal infrastructure, and is not intended to be used directly from your code. Inherited from RepositoryItem.
DesignMode protected Gets a value that indicates whether the Component is currently in design mode. Inherited from Component.
DisplayFormat Gets format settings applied to the editor’s value. Inherited from RepositoryItem.
DropDownItemHeight Gets or sets the height of an item in the dropdown list. Inherited from RepositoryItemComboBox.
DropDownRows Gets or sets the number of items simultaneously displayed in the dropdown window. Inherited from RepositoryItemComboBox.
Editable Gets whether the editor’s value can be changed. Inherited from RepositoryItem.
EditFormat Provides access to the settings used to format the edit value when the editor has input focus. Inherited from RepositoryItem.
EditorTypeName Gets the class name of an editor corresponding to the current repository item.
EditValueChangedDelay Gets or sets the time interval between the moment when an end-user stops changing the editor’s value and the RepositoryItem.EditValueChanged event being raised. Inherited from RepositoryItem.
EditValueChangedFiringDelay static Gets or sets the default time interval between the moment when an end-user stops changing the editor’s value and the RepositoryItem.EditValueChanged event being raised. Inherited from RepositoryItem.
EditValueChangedFiringMode Gets or sets the RepositoryItem.EditValueChanged event’s firing mode. Inherited from RepositoryItem.
Enabled Gets or sets a value indicating whether the edit control can respond to user actions. This property is supported for standalone editors. Inherited from RepositoryItem.
Events protected Gets the list of event handlers that are attached to this Component. Inherited from Component.
ExportMode This property is not supported by the RepositoryItemSearchControl class.
FilterCondition Gets or sets the comparison operator (Equals, Starts With, and so forth) used to compare the attached control’s items with the query in the search box. This property is only in effect if the SearchControl is attached to a ListBoxControl.
FindDelay Gets or sets the delay for a search performed automatically on typing text.
HideSelection Gets or sets whether the selection is hidden when moving focus to another control. Inherited from RepositoryItemTextEdit.
HighlightedItemStyle Specifies how selected and hot-tracked items are highlighted within the control’s popup window. Inherited from RepositoryItemComboBox.
HotTrackDropDownItems Obsolete. Gets or sets, if the items from the dropdown menu can be hot tracked. Inherited from RepositoryItemComboBox.
HotTrackItems Gets or sets whether the items in the dropdown are hot-tracked when the mouse pointer moves over them. Inherited from RepositoryItemComboBox.
HtmlImages This property is not supported by the RepositoryItemSearchControl class.
HtmlTemplates Stores HTML and CSS-based templates used to render combo box items. Inherited from RepositoryItemComboBox.
ImmediatePopup Gets or sets a value that specifies whether the popup window is displayed immediately after an end-user has typed a character in the edit box. Inherited from RepositoryItemMRUEdit.
IsDesignMode Indicates whether the editor is currently in design mode. Inherited from RepositoryItem.
IsDisposed Gets a value indicating whether the control has been disposed of. Inherited from RepositoryItem.
IsEditValueChangedEventPending Gets whether the EditValueChanged event is postponed. Inherited from RepositoryItem.
IsFilterLookUp This member supports the internal infrastructure, and is not intended to be used directly from your code. Inherited from RepositoryItem.
IsLoading Indicates whether the editor is being loaded. Inherited from RepositoryItem.
IsLockUpdate Gets a value indicating whether the editor is immediately updated in response to changing its settings. Inherited from RepositoryItem.
IsNonSortableEditor This member supports the internal infrastructure, and is not intended to be used directly from your code. Inherited from RepositoryItem.
ItemAutoHeight Gets or sets whether the height of items is automatically calculated to fit their entire content. Inherited from RepositoryItemComboBox.
ItemPadding Gets or sets padding within list items. Inherited from RepositoryItemComboBox.
Items Gets the collection of items displayed by the current MRU editor. Inherited from RepositoryItemMRUEdit.
LinkCount Gets the number of objects connected to the current repository item. Inherited from RepositoryItem.
LookAndFeel Provides access to the stand-alone editor’s look and feel settings. These settings are not in effect for the editor in a bar, ribbon, grid, etc. Inherited from RepositoryItem.
Mask This member supports the .NET Framework infrastructure and cannot be used directly from your code. Inherited from RepositoryItemPopupBaseAutoSearchEdit.
MaskBoxPadding Gets or sets the amount of space around the text box embedded in the TextEdit. Inherited from RepositoryItemTextEdit.
MaskSettings For internal use. Inherited from RepositoryItemPopupBaseAutoSearchEdit.
MaxItemCount Gets or sets the maximum number of items displayed in the editor’s dropdown list. Inherited from RepositoryItemMRUEdit.
MaxLength Gets or sets the maximum number of characters an end-user can enter into the editor. Inherited from RepositoryItemTextEdit.
MaxToolTipTextLength static Gets or sets the maximum number of characters in the automatically generated tooltip displayed for an in-place editor. Inherited from RepositoryItemTextEdit.
Name Gets or sets the repository item name. Inherited from RepositoryItem.
NormalizeDisplayText static Set the NormalizeDisplayText property to true to correctly process diacritics when selecting rows from a dropdown window in the LookUpEdit control. Inherited from RepositoryItem.
NullText This property is not supported by the RepositoryItemSearchControl class.
NullValuePrompt Gets or sets a grayed out hint displayed when the editor’s value is null or empty. This property is in effect for standalone editors and for editors embedded in toolbars and Ribbon controls. Not supported for in-place editors embedded in grid and tree list controls. Not supported for read-only editors. Inherited from RepositoryItemTextEdit.
NullValuePromptForeColor Inherited from RepositoryItemTextEdit.
NullValuePromptShowForEmptyValue Gets or sets whether the text specified by the RepositoryItemTextEdit.NullValuePrompt property is displayed when the editor contains an empty string.
OwnerEdit Gets the editor that owns the current repository item object.
OwnerItem This member supports the internal infrastructure, and is not intended to be used directly from your code. Inherited from RepositoryItem.
Padding Gets or sets the TextEdit padding. The MemoEdit does not fully support this property, use the MaskBoxPadding property instead. Inherited from RepositoryItemTextEdit.
PasswordChar This property is not supported by the RepositoryItemSearchControl class.
PopupBorderStyle Gets or sets the popup window’s border style. Inherited from RepositoryItemPopupBase.
PopupDisplayFormat Inherited from RepositoryItemComboBox.
PopupFormMinSize Gets or sets the minimum size for the associated dropdown window. Inherited from RepositoryItemPopupBase.
PopupFormSize Sets the popup window’s initial size. Inherited from RepositoryItemPopupBase.
PopupFormWidth Gets or sets the popup window’s width. Inherited from RepositoryItemPopupBase.
PopupOffset Gets or sets the popup window’s location. Inherited from RepositoryItem.
PopupResizeMode Gets or sets whether the popup window’s contents are displayed during resize operations. Inherited from RepositoryItemPopupBase.
PopupSizeable Gets or sets a value indicating whether the dropdown window is sizeable. Inherited from RepositoryItemPopupBaseAutoSearchEdit.
Properties Obsolete. Gets an object providing properties specific to a MRU edit control. Inherited from RepositoryItemMRUEdit.
ReadOnly Gets or sets a value specifying whether the editor’s value can be changed by end-users. Inherited from RepositoryItem.
RequireDisplayTextSorting This member supports the .NET Framework infrastructure and is not intended to be used directly from your code. Inherited from RepositoryItem.
ResetTextEditStyleToStandardInFilterControl Gets or sets whether the RepositoryItemButtonEdit.TextEditStyle property is automatically set to TextEditStyles.Standard, when the editor is displayed within a FilterControl and FilterEditorControl. Inherited from RepositoryItemButtonEdit.
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SearchByMembers Allows users to choose data fields to search in. This property is in effect when the RepositoryItemSearchControl.ShowSearchByButton property is true.
ShowClearButton Gets or sets whether the Clear Button is displayed in the SearchControl
ShowDefaultButtonsMode Gets or sets the mode in which the Search and Clear buttons are displayed.
ShowDropDown Gets or sets whether the popup window can be opened by clicking the edit box and whether a single or double click is required. Inherited from RepositoryItemPopupBase.
ShowMRUButton Gets or sets whether the dropdown button that invokes a list of most recently used search requests is displayed.
ShowNullValuePrompt Gets or sets conditions under which this editor should display its null value text (see the NullValuePrompt property). Inherited from RepositoryItemTextEdit.
ShowNullValuePromptWhenFocused Gets or sets whether the focused editor displays a prompt when its value is not specified. Inherited from RepositoryItemTextEdit.
ShowNullValuePromptWhenReadOnly Gets or sets whether the read-only editor displays a prompt when its value is not specified. Inherited from RepositoryItemTextEdit.
ShowPopupShadow Gets or sets whether the popup window’s shadow is displayed. Inherited from RepositoryItemPopupBase.
ShowSearchButton Gets or set whether the Search Button is displayed in the SearchControl.
ShowSearchByButton Allows users to choose data fields to search in. This property is in effect when the RepositoryItemSearchControl.SearchByMembers property contains the fields to search in.
ShowToolTipForTrimmedText Gets or sets whether tooltips are displayed for items whose text is trimmed. Inherited from RepositoryItemComboBox.
Site Gets or sets a ISite for the object. Inherited from RepositoryItem.
Sorted Gets or sets whether the items are sorted. Inherited from RepositoryItemComboBox.
SuppressMouseEventOnOuterMouseClick Allows you to suppress mouse events when clicking outside an open popup menu. Inherited from RepositoryItemPopupBase.
Tag Gets or sets the data associated with the repository item. Inherited from RepositoryItem.
TextEditStyle Gets or sets the style in which text is displayed and edited in the button editor. Inherited from RepositoryItemButtonEdit.
TextPadding Gets or sets the text (value) padding within the editor. Inherited from RepositoryItemTextEdit.
UseAdvancedMode Switches the editor to Advanced Mode. This mode supports new caret and selection animations, emojis, and embedded labels. You can set up properties from the RepositoryItemTextEdit.AdvancedModeOptions group to choose which Advanced Mode features are enabled. Inherited from RepositoryItemTextEdit.
UseCtrlScroll Gets or sets a value indicating whether the Ctrl key must be pressed when scrolling combo box items. Inherited from RepositoryItemComboBox.
UseMaskAsDisplayFormat For internal use. Inherited from RepositoryItemPopupBaseAutoSearchEdit.
UseParentBackground This member supports the internal infrastructure, and is not intended to be used directly from your code. Inherited from RepositoryItem.
UseReadOnlyAppearance Gets or sets whether the TextEdit is grayed out in the read only mode. Inherited from RepositoryItemTextEdit.
UseSystemPasswordChar This property is not supported by the RepositoryItemSearchControl class.
UseTextEditorForAutoFilter Gets whether to substitute this editor with the single-line text editor in auto-filter rows. Inherited from RepositoryItemButtonEdit.
ValidateOnEnterKey Gets or sets a value specifying whether to invoke the RepositoryItem.Validating event when pressing the ENTER key. Inherited from RepositoryItemMRUEdit.
XlsxFormatString Gets or sets the native Excel format string used to format the editor’s value when exporting to XLSX. This property is in effect in WYSIWYG export mode. Inherited from RepositoryItemTextEdit.
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