"Özden Irmak" <ozdenirmak@isnet.net.tr> wrote in message
news:uNfhvIJHEHA.2876@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
> Hello,
>
> I'm developing a windows forms component deriving from
> System.Windows.Forms.Control.
>
> I've 4 complex properties which actually are classes and each also does a
> part of drawing the control and each of them have also their custom
> UITypeEditors.
>
> What I want to achieve is that when one property shows it's cstom property
> page, it has to take some variables/ call functions from other 3
properties
> and show the combined result in that property page.
>
> I couldn't find a way to reach the other properties when I show the custom
> UITypeEditor of one of my properties. Is it possible or am I dreaming
> something that is impossible? :o)
>
> Thanks,
>
> Özden
>
>

"Chris Ellis" <chriseAtStompsoftDotCom> wrote in message
news:er0xTGLHEHA.2012@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
> Hi Özden,
>
> This may just amount to a hack and hopefully someone else will reply
> with a better solution, but if the child classes (the ones used for the
> properties) will be unique to the object to which they belong (meaning
that
> you're not using the same child/property object for several parent
objects),
> then you could probably solve this by exposing a parent pointer to the
> parent object from within each of the child objects as properties
> ("Parent"), as components do. Now, I don't know much about using
> UITypeEditors. That's one of my next goals is to learn how to do one, so
> please forgive me if I'm totally wrong here. But if you have access to
the
> particular child object (the property) from the UITypeEditor, then you
> should have access to the newly exposed Parent property, which would give
> you access to the parent object, which exposes the other three child
objects
> as properties of itself. That should work, no? Like I said, that might
be
> a bit of a hack. Hopefully if it is, someone who knows what they're doing
> will correct me.
>
> Hope that helps,
> Chris
>
> "Özden Irmak" <ozdenirmak@isnet.net.tr> wrote in message
> news:uNfhvIJHEHA.2876@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
> > Hello,
> >
> > I'm developing a windows forms component deriving from
> > System.Windows.Forms.Control.
> >
> > I've 4 complex properties which actually are classes and each also does
a
> > part of drawing the control and each of them have also their custom
> > UITypeEditors.
> >
> > What I want to achieve is that when one property shows it's cstom
property
> > page, it has to take some variables/ call functions from other 3
> properties
> > and show the combined result in that property page.
> >
> > I couldn't find a way to reach the other properties when I show the
custom
> > UITypeEditor of one of my properties. Is it possible or am I dreaming
> > something that is impossible? :o)
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Özden
> >
> >
>
>

"Özden Irmak" <ozdenirmak@isnet.net.tr> wrote in message
news:ubq8l8LHEHA.2924@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
> Hi Chris,
>
> This seems to be ok at first sight but as the control itself derives from
> System.Windows.Forms.Control, I get error indicating that it is not marked
> as serializable...
>
> Thanks for taking time anyway...:)
>
> Özden
>
> "Chris Ellis" <chriseAtStompsoftDotCom> wrote in message
> news:er0xTGLHEHA.2012@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
> > Hi Özden,
> >
> > This may just amount to a hack and hopefully someone else will reply
> > with a better solution, but if the child classes (the ones used for the
> > properties) will be unique to the object to which they belong (meaning
> that
> > you're not using the same child/property object for several parent
> objects),
> > then you could probably solve this by exposing a parent pointer to the
> > parent object from within each of the child objects as properties
> > ("Parent"), as components do. Now, I don't know much about using
> > UITypeEditors. That's one of my next goals is to learn how to do one,
so
> > please forgive me if I'm totally wrong here. But if you have access to
> the
> > particular child object (the property) from the UITypeEditor, then you
> > should have access to the newly exposed Parent property, which would
give
> > you access to the parent object, which exposes the other three child
> objects
> > as properties of itself. That should work, no? Like I said, that might
> be
> > a bit of a hack. Hopefully if it is, someone who knows what they're
doing
> > will correct me.
> >
> > Hope that helps,
> > Chris
> >
> > "Özden Irmak" <ozdenirmak@isnet.net.tr> wrote in message
> > news:uNfhvIJHEHA.2876@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > I'm developing a windows forms component deriving from
> > > System.Windows.Forms.Control.
> > >
> > > I've 4 complex properties which actually are classes and each also
does
> a
> > > part of drawing the control and each of them have also their custom
> > > UITypeEditors.
> > >
> > > What I want to achieve is that when one property shows it's cstom
> property
> > > page, it has to take some variables/ call functions from other 3
> > properties
> > > and show the combined result in that property page.
> > >
> > > I couldn't find a way to reach the other properties when I show the
> custom
> > > UITypeEditor of one of my properties. Is it possible or am I dreaming
> > > something that is impossible? :o)
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > >
> > > Özden
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
>
>

"Özden Irmak" <ozdenirmak@isnet.net.tr> wrote in message news:<uNfhvIJHEHA.2876@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl>...
> Hello,
>
> I'm developing a windows forms component deriving from
> System.Windows.Forms.Control.
>
> I've 4 complex properties which actually are classes and each also does a
> part of drawing the control and each of them have also their custom
> UITypeEditors.
>
> What I want to achieve is that when one property shows it's cstom property
> page, it has to take some variables/ call functions from other 3 properties
> and show the combined result in that property page.
>
> I couldn't find a way to reach the other properties when I show the custom
> UITypeEditor of one of my properties. Is it possible or am I dreaming
> something that is impossible? :o)
>
> Thanks,
>