Class TextField
Single-line text entry View
public class TextField : View, IDisposable, ISupportInitializeNotification, ISupportInitialize- Inheritance
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TextField
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Remarks
Constructors
- TextField()
Initializes a new instance of the TextField class using Computed positioning.
Properties
- Autocomplete
Provides autocomplete context menu based on suggestions at the current cursor position. Configure ISuggestionGenerator to enable this feature.
- Caption
Gets or sets the text to render in control when no value has been entered yet and the View does not yet have input focus.
- CaptionColor
Gets or sets the foreground Color to use when rendering Caption.
- ContextMenu
Get the ContextMenu for this view.
- CursorPosition
Sets or gets the current cursor position.
- HasHistoryChanges
Indicates whatever the text has history changes or not. true if the text has history changes false otherwise.
- IsDirty
Indicates whatever the text was changed or not. true if the text was changed false otherwise.
- ReadOnly
If set to true its not allow any changes in the text.
- ScrollOffset
Gets the left offset position.
- Secret
Sets the secret property.
This makes the text entry suitable for entering passwords.
- SelectedLength
Length of the selected text.
- SelectedStart
Start position of the selected text.
- SelectedText
The selected text.
- Text
Sets or gets the text held by the view.
- Used
Tracks whether the text field should be considered "used", that is, that the user has moved in the entry, so new input should be appended at the cursor position, rather than clearing the entry
Methods
- ClearAllSelection()
Clear the selected text.
- ClearHistoryChanges()
Allows clearing the HistoryText.HistoryTextItem items updating the original text.
- Copy()
Copy the selected text to the clipboard.
- Cut()
Cut the selected text to the clipboard.
- DeleteAll()
Deletes all text.
- DeleteCharLeft(bool)
Deletes the character to the left.
- DeleteCharRight()
Deletes the character to the right.
- GetNormalColor()
Determines the current ColorScheme based on the Enabled value.
- InsertText(string, bool)
Inserts the given
toAddtext at the current cursor position exactly as if the user had just typed it
- KillWordBackwards()
Deletes word backwards.
- KillWordForwards()
Deletes word forwards.
- MoveEnd()
Moves cursor to the end of the typed text.
- OnDrawContent(Rectangle)
Draws the view's content, including Subviews.
- OnInvokingKeyBindings(Key)
Low-level API called when a user presses a key; invokes any key bindings set on the view. This is called during NewKeyDownEvent(Key) after OnKeyDown(Key) has returned.
- OnLeave(View)
Method invoked when a view loses focus.
- OnMouseEvent(MouseEvent)
Called when a mouse event occurs within the view's Viewport.
- OnProcessKeyDown(Key)
Processes key presses for the TextField.
The TextField control responds to the following keys: Keys Function Delete, Backspace Deletes the character before cursor.
- OnTextChanging(string)
Virtual method that invoke the TextChanging event if it's defined.
- Paste()
Paste the selected text from the clipboard.
- PositionCursor()
Sets the cursor position.
- Redo()
Redoes the latest changes.
- SelectAll()
Selects all text.
- Undo()
Undoes the latest changes.
Events
- TextChanging
Changing event, raised before the Text changes and can be canceled or changing the new text.