Text Settings in Windows Forms Percent TextBox

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This section discusses the text settings of the PercentTextBox control.

The text associated with the PercentTextBox control can be set and customized using the below given settings.

this.percentTextBox1.CharacterCasing = System.Windows.Forms.CharacterCasing.Upper;
this.percentTextBox1.TextAlign = System.Windows.Forms.HorizontalAlignment.Center;
this.percentTextBox1.SelectedText = "34";
this.percentTextBox1.SelectAllOnFocus = true;
this.percentTextBox1.SwitchModeOnFocus = true;
this.percentTextBox1.HideSelection = true;
this.percentTextBox1.ClipText = "34";
this.percentTextBox1.DrawActiveWhenDisabled = true;
Me.percentTextBox1.CharacterCasing = System.Windows.Forms.CharacterCasing.Upper
Me.percentTextBox1.TextAlign = System.Windows.Forms.HorizontalAlignment.Center
Me.percentTextBox1.SelectedText = "34"
Me.percentTextBox1.SelectAllOnFocus = true
Me.percentTextBox1.SwitchModeOnFocus = True
Me.percentTextBox1.HideSelection = True
Me.percentTextBox1.ClipText = "34"
Me.percentTextBox1.DrawActiveWhenDisabled = True

PercentTextBox text support

PercentTextBox value

PercentTextBox focus value

The methods associated with the above properties are given below.

Multiline Text Settings

The text settings of the PercentTextBox control can be customized to display multiline text using the below given properties.

this.percentTextBox1.Multiline = true;
this.percentTextBox1.WordWrap = true;
this.percentTextBox1.ScrollBars = System.Windows.Forms.ScrollBars.Vertical;
Me.percentTextBox1.Multiline = True
Me.percentTextBox1.WordWrap = True
Me.percentTextBox1.ScrollBars = System.Windows.Forms.ScrollBars.Vertical

Percent text box multi line support

word wrap

scroll bar support

Clip mode

The formatting for the text can be enabled or disabled using the ClipMode property.

this.percentTextBox1.ClipMode = Syncfusion.Windows.Forms.Tools.CurrencyClipModes.IncludeFormatting;
Me.percentTextBox1.ClipMode = Syncfusion.Windows.Forms.Tools.CurrencyClipModes.IncludeFormatting

Formatted text

Formatted text can be displayed using the FormattedText property.

this.percentTextBox1.FormattedText = "Hello";
Me.percentTextBox1.FormattedText = "Hello"

RightToLeft

The text can be displayed from right to left for RTL languages using the RightToLeft property.

NOTE

 The RightToLeft property will be automatically set to ‘True’ for RTL languages.

this.percentTextBox1.RightToLeft = System.Windows.Forms.RightToLeft.Yes;
Me.percentTextBox1.RightToLeft = System.Windows.Forms.RightToLeft.Yes

Percent text box right to left

NOTE

 The ResetRightToLeft method can be used to reset the RightToLeft property to it’s default value.

OverflowIndicatorToolTipText

The tooltip that should be displayed when an overflow of text occurs can be set using the below given properties.

this.percentTextBox1.OverflowIndicatorToolTipText = "Overflow";
this.percentTextBox1.ShowOverflowIndicator = true;
this.percentTextBox1.ShowOverflowIndicatorToolTip = true;
Me.percentTextBox1.OverflowIndicatorToolTipText = "Overflow"
Me.percentTextBox1.ShowOverflowIndicator = True
Me.percentTextBox1.ShowOverflowIndicatorToolTip = True

Percent text box tool tip support

The PercentTextBox control can display banner text in the text field, at run time. A BannerTextProvider Component should be available for this purpose. Also, We need to set AllowNull, NullString and Text properties as below to make this feature effective.

this.percentTextBox1.AllowNull = true;
this.percentTextBox1.NullString = "";
this.percentTextBox1.Text = "";
Me.percentTextBox1.AllowNull = True
Me.percentTextBox1.NullString = ""
Me.percentTextBox1.Text = ""

A sample which demonstrates the Text, Text Align and Overflow Indicator features of the PercentTextBox control is available in the below sample installation path.

…\My Documents\Syncfusion\EssentialStudio\Version Number\Windows\Tools.Windows\Samples\Advanced Editor Functions\ActionGroupingDemo