The ButtonEdit control is an advanced text box editor that allows nesting buttons inside of it.
The ButtonEdit control offers the following features.
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Unlimited number of nested buttons
ButtonEdit can display any number of nested buttons that are stored in the ButtonEdit.Buttons collection. Individual nested buttons are represented by the ButtonInfo objects.
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Customizable button appearance and alignment
Each button can be individually customized. To specify the desired button glyph, use the ButtonInfo.GlyphKind property. To left-align a nested button, set the ButtonInfoBase.IsLeft property to true.
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Optional default button
By default, ButtonEdit displays a single button. To control its availability, use the ButtonEdit.AllowDefaultButton property. Clicking the default button raises the ButtonEdit.DefaultButtonClick event.
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Common editor features
Like other DevExpress WPF data editors, ButtonEdit supports masked user input and the data validation mechanism.
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Optimized for in-place editing
ButtonEdit can be used standalone or as an in-place editor nested in a container control. The ButtonEditSettings class implements the in-place editing functionality. See Inplace Editors to learn more.
To add a standalone ButtonEdit to a Window, drag it from the Toolbox and populate its ButtonEdit.Buttons collection with the ButtonInfo objects.
The following sample demonstrates how to create a ButtonEdit using XAML markup.
Xaml |
<dxe:ButtonEdit x:Name="buttonEdit1" AllowDefaultButton="True" DefaultButtonClick="buttonEdit1_DefaultButtonClick">
<dxe:ButtonInfo GlyphKind="Undo" Command="ApplicationCommands.Undo"/>
<dxe:ButtonInfo GlyphKind="Redo" Command="ApplicationCommands.Redo"/>
</dxe:ButtonEdit>
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To embed a ButtonEdit into a container control, use the ButtonEditSettings class.
The following sample demonstrates how to embed a ButtonEdit into a GridControl column.
Xaml |
<dxg:GridControl Name="grid">
<dxg:GridControl.Columns>
<dxg:GridColumn FieldName="ProductName">
<dxg:GridColumn.EditSettings>
<dxe:ButtonEditSettings DefaultButtonClick="ButtonEditSettings_DefaultButtonClick"/>
</dxg:GridColumn.EditSettings>
</dxg:GridColumn>
</dxg:GridControl.Columns>
</dxg:GridControl>
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