Pass value from editor to propertygrid at design time

[izzetbaysal]

Hi everyone,
i have designed an editor which i use it to get some string values from the user at design time and i want to pass these string values as a collection into the propertygrid and then save it in the form's initializecomponent method. I can manage that just by adding the values into the propertygrid. Does anybody know how to do this via the editor?
Any help would be appreciated.

[JonnyPoet]

can you zip your project and show what you already have so far, so we better can see what your problem is. Because the user input in a textbox for example normally triggers a textChanged or in the end a Validate delegate and you cn use them for sending your strings wherever you want to have them

[izzetbaysal]

can you zip your project and show what you already have so far, so we better can see what your problem is. Because the user input in a textbox for example normally triggers a textChanged or in the end a Validate delegate and you cn use them for sending your strings wherever you want to have them

Thanks for the reply JonnyPoet. I have a component and I created a collection editor which holds a list. I show the collection in the propertygrid of the component and i can add/remove values by using the propertygrid. What i need here is to be able to insert the values into the collection via my editor form at design time. When i reopen the propertygrid collectioneditor i want to see the values i inserted.

[JonnyPoet]

Thanks for the reply JonnyPoet. I have a component and I created a collection editor which holds a list. I show the collection in the propertygrid of the component and i can add/remove values by using the propertygrid. What i need here is to be able to insert the values into the collection via my editor form at design time. When i reopen the propertygrid collectioneditor i want to see the values i inserted.

Is the editor form part of your component just like we have editor forms that opens when clicking to e.g. 'Columns...' in a datagridview? Or in which way are you inserting the collection into your property grid ?

[izzetbaysal]

Is the editor form part of your component just like we have editor forms that opens when clicking to e.g. 'Columns...' in a datagridview? Or in which way are you inserting the collection into your property grid ?

Thanks for the reply again Jonny. Yes, editor form is part of my component and i also use a custom CollectionEditor to insert values. By using the custom CollectionEditor everything is fine, data is serialized into the form designer and works well, but i also want to be able to do that over my editor form at design time.

[izzetbaysal]

Is the editor form part of your component just like we have editor forms that opens when clicking to e.g. 'Columns...' in a datagridview? Or in which way are you inserting the collection into your property grid ?

Thanks for the reply again Jonny. Yes, editor form is part of my component and i also use a custom CollectionEditor to insert values. By using the custom CollectionEditor everything is fine, data is serialized into the form designer and works well, but i also want to be able to do that over my editor form at design time.