Properties of User Control

[jagadishkumar]

How can I expose a Design-Time only property of a constituent control in my User Control?

I have made a user control consisting of a combo box. I want to expose the Sorted property of the combo box. How can I do this?

Sorted property of the combo box is a Design-time only property.

Any help is grately appreciated.

Thanx,
Jagadish.

[Andrew R.]

I'm sure you can do it if you're creating OCX (because I've done the same in my OCX-control).
Use ActiveX Control Interface Wizard.

[Clearcode]

As far as I know, a constituent control is always in run time mode, because it is running in your control.

In most cases design time only properties are such because they are things that can only be set when a window is being created as is the case with the sorted property.

HTH,
Duncan

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[John G Duffy]

I would create a Property Get in the UserControl that returns the value of the .Sorted Property of the comboBox, something like this:

public property get SortValue() as Boolean
SortValue = Combo1.Sorted
End property




John G

[jagadishkumar]

I am creating an OCX control!!

I used the ActiveX control Interface wizard to add the properties to my user control. Only the Get method for .Sorted property is added by the wizard.

If u have done the same b4, could u send me some sample code?

Thanx,
Jagadish.

[jagadishkumar]

I want to add the Set interface for .Sorted Property of the combo box.

If I add a Set interface, I get a run-time error saying the property is read-only.

[John G Duffy]

You can't change the .Sorted property at run time. This is a ComboBox control restriction.

John G