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Good day,

I would like to know if it is possible to hide/unhide an item within a property grid.

I know i could remove the item and store its parent/location and then recreate it when desired but isn’t optimal.

Thanx in advance,

Stakon.

 

 

Good Day

I have done as you said but probably I am doing something wrong.

In a CExtPropertyValue derived class which creates a combo-box in the constructor, i have added th following line in the declaration (.h file):



virtual bool CanBeInsertedIntoPropertyGrid();

and then i define it as (in the .cpp file)

bool Color::CanBeInsertedIntoPropertyGrid()

{

bool a = CExtPropertyItem::CanBeInsertedIntoPropertyGrid();   //even without this line it doesn’t seem to work

return false ;

}

i call this function in the apply of that value, but nothing happens?

CanBeInsertedIntoPropertyGrid ();  // I call it here

CMainFrame *mainfrm = (CMainFrame *)AfxGetMainWnd();

mainfrm->m_wndInBarDlg.GridControl.PropertyStoreSynchronize ()  // I synchronize the propgrid



What am i doing wrong?

 

Thanx in advance

Stakon.

Here is the correct method signature:

virtual bool CanBeInsertedIntoPropertyGrid() const;

You forgot the const modifier.

You should use your CExtPropertyValue-derived class (and/or CExtPropertyCategory-derived) which implements the CExtPropertyItem::CanBeInsertedIntoPropertyGrid() virtual method. Your method should simply return a false flag if the property item should be hidden in the property grid control. You should invoke the CExtPropertyGridCtrl::PropertyStoreSynchronize() method if you want the property grid control to reload the property store tree after changing particular property items.