Making a property editable ONLY BY CUSTOM EDITOR

[Bill Foust]

I have a property which is a basic type and I have a custom editor on the
property. The value of the property shows up as editable with the "..."
button to launch the custom editor. However I want to PREVENT the user from
editing the value by simply typing it in. I want to force the user to launch
the custom editor. Is there a secret attribute to do this?

Thanks
Bill

[Ying-Shen Yu[MSFT]]

Hi Bill,

You may try specifying a Type Converter class for your property,
here is a quick sample shows how to do this, for simplicity I defined a
Property in Font type, you may add this code snippet to a user control then
add the user control to the Form, now the MyFont property displays a string
returned from Font.ToString() and a button with "...", you may edit the
value using Font Dialog but the text field of the property is not editable.

<code>
[
TypeConverter(typeof(TypeConverter))
]
public Font MyFont
{
get
{
return this.Font;
}
set
{
this.Font = value;
}
}
<code>
Does it resolve your probem?
Feel free to reply this thread if you have anything unclear about it.

Have a nice day!

Best regards,

Ying-Shen Yu [MSFT]
Microsoft Community Support
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