ComboBox Cue Banner not italic when DropDownStyle is DropDown

爱⌒轻易说出口 提交于 2019-11-29 11:07:15
Hans Passant

By design. When the Style = DropDown, the text portion of the combobox is a TextBox. Which displays the cue banner in non-italic style. You can verify with this code. It is otherwise important to make the distinction between the banner and the actual selection visible when the Style = DropDownList, no doubt the reason they chose to display it italic. TextBox does it differently, it hides the banner when it gets the focus.

Throwing in a non exhausting version:

using System;
using System.Windows.Forms;
using System.Runtime.InteropServices;

class CueComboBox : ComboBox {
    private string mCue;
    public string Cue {
        get { return mCue; }
        set {
            mCue = value;
            updateCue();
        }
    }
    private void updateCue() {
        if (this.IsHandleCreated && mCue != null) {
            SendMessage(this.Handle, 0x1703, (IntPtr)0, mCue);
        }
    }
    protected override void OnHandleCreated(EventArgs e) {
        base.OnHandleCreated(e);
        updateCue();
    }
    // P/Invoke
    [DllImport("user32.dll", CharSet = CharSet.Unicode)]
    private static extern IntPtr SendMessage(IntPtr hWnd, int msg, IntPtr wp, string lp);
}

Simpler version for C# WinForms:

using System;
using System.Runtime.InteropServices; //Reference for Cue Banner
using System.Windows.Forms;

namespace Your_Project
{
    public partial class Form1 : Form
    {
        private const int TB_SETCUEBANNER = 0x1501; //Textbox Integer
        private const int CB_SETCUEBANNER = 0x1703; //Combobox Integer
        [DllImport("user32.dll", CharSet = CharSet.Auto)]
        private static extern Int32 SendMessage(IntPtr hWnd, int msg,
            int wParam, [MarshalAs(UnmanagedType.LPWStr)]string lParam); //Main Import for Cue Banner

        public Form1()
        {
            InitializeComponent();
            SendMessage(textBox1.Handle, TB_SETCUEBANNER, 0, "Type Here..."); //Cue Banner for textBox1
            SendMessage(comboBox1.Handle, CB_SETCUEBANNER, 0, "Type Here..."); //Cue Banner for comboBox1
        }
    }
}

After that you can easily set the property text to italic and change it for when the user clicks or types.

For Example:

public Form1()
{
    InitializeComponent();
    textBox1.Font = new Font(textBox1.Font, FontStyle.Italic); //Italic Font for textBox1
    comboBox1.Font = new Font(comboBox1.Font, FontStyle.Italic); //Italic Font for comboBox1
    SendMessage(textBox1.Handle, TB_SETCUEBANNER, 0, "Type Here..."); //Cue Banner for textBox1
    SendMessage(comboBox1.Handle, CB_SETCUEBANNER, 0, "Type Here..."); //Cue Banner for comboBox1
}

private void textBox1_TextChanged(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
    if (textBox1.Text != "")
    {
        textBox1.Font = new Font(textBox1.Font, FontStyle.Regular); //Regular Font for textBox1 when user types
    }
    else
    {
        textBox1.Font = new Font(textBox1.Font, FontStyle.Italic); //Italic Font for textBox1 when theres no text
    }
}
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