Expanding the newest added item in a PropertyGrid - Grids for WPF Forum

Posted 7 years ago by Neil Larson

      private void ThePropertyGrid_PropertyChildAdded(object sender, PropertyModelChildChangeEventArgs e)
      {
         PropertyGrid grid = sender as PropertyGrid;
         if (grid == null)
            return;

         for (int i = 0; i < grid.Items.Count; i++)
         {
            PropertyDescriptorPropertyModel m = grid.Items[i] as PropertyDescriptorPropertyModel;
            if(m != null)
            {
               if (Object.ReferenceEquals(m.Value, e.ChildValue))
               {
                  m.IsExpanded = true;
                  return;
               }
            }
         }
      }

I use this to expand the item just added by the user. It would be a bit easier if e.ChildPropertyModel was not null, but this works too.

Neil

Comments (1)

Posted 7 years ago by Actipro Software Support - Cleveland, OH, USA

Hi Neil,

The problem is that right before we raise that event, we call a "refresh" on the parent's children collection. We don't know the property model instance that gets generated as a result of that refresh.

In general something like this might work better for your needs:

var propModel = parentPropertyModel.Children.FirstOrDefault(m => ((IPropertyModel)m).Value == childValue);
if (propModel != null)
    propModel.IsExpanded = true;

Actipro Software Support

The latest build of this product (v24.1.3) was released 1 month ago, which was after the last post in this thread.

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