Hi,

I'm just starting FCX Pro evaluation, and I already lost a night trying to find out how to control TableCaption behavior.

Just after a table creation, I want to let the user to assign some text to the caption, so I call Table.BeginInplaceEdit(-1, -1) to create the inline editbox. This works, but I still couldn't solve:

1. the font used while editing is not the font used for the caption.
2. I couldn't catch Keys while editing (I need Esc and Enter).
3. I couldn't resize the caption to fit the caption text

Is this possible at all?

Thanks

Hi,

You can do 1 and 2 only through the Windows API. First get a window handle for the edit control as shown here:
http://mindfusion.eu/Forum/YaBB.pl?board=fcx_disc;action=display;num=1254523850;...

1. Send WM_SETFONT to change its font.
2. Use window subclassing to detect Esc and Enter keys. For a VB6 example, check here:
http://www.vb-helper.com/tutorial_subclassing.html

I hope that helps,
Stoyan

Hi Carlos,

We have added InplaceEditAcceptOnEnter and InplaceEditCancelOnEsc properties here:
https://mindfusion.eu/_beta/flowchartx32_inplacekeys.zip

CancelOnEsc is enabled by default, AcceptOnEnter is disabled. We have not updated the control's property-bag serialization code, so you might not be able to set them from a design-time form editor, depending on how your IDE sets properties. In such case, set them from code, e.g. in response to a window.load or similar event.

I hope that helps,
Stoyan

Hi Stoyo,

The new properties work as expected and can save us lots of code. Thank you again for that.

About InPlaceEditFont, I still couldn't put it to work (maybe because the Font is an OleFont and I have no simple way to get it's handle). But don't you think that the EditBox should use fcx.font by default? Just a thought.

BeginInplaceEdit returns immediately, so you can handle CellDoubleClicked like this:

table.SetText col, row, ""
table.BeginInplaceEdit col, row
table.SetText col, row, "<add column>"

Now if the user presses ESC, the "<add column>" text remains, otherwise the cell's text will be changed to what the user has entered.

I hope that helps,
Stoyan