changing property grid values based on another value

[liquid8]

I have 2 properties on a property grid.. depending on the first ones value, i want to return one of two different enums..

 

For instance, I have a multiple data types (file, image, etc) and then i have enumerations for each...

 

for File: location, name, size

for Image: height, width, size

 

if you change the first property to file, the other property should be a dropdown list of the file enums, if it is changed to image, the other property should change to be a dropdown list of the image enums..

 

 

How can I do this?

 

Thanks,

 

LiQuiD8

[liquid8]

I have been searching and am still having trouble with this one... I may not have explained this very well...

 

I have 2 values on a property grid. One of them I am trying to create a typeconverter that will return a standardvaluescollection, but the values it returns need to be dependant upon the value of the other property. Is there a way I can somehow pass a value to a typeconverter to accomplish this?

 

Thanks,

 

LiQuiD8

[liquid8]

In case anyone needs to know how I did this....

 

I was using a typeconverter and overriding GetStandardValues, but I needed to return a dynamic list of items based on another property value...

 

Here's what I did:

 

Public Overloads Overrides Function GetStandardValues(ByVal context As System.ComponentModel.ITypeDescriptorContext) As System.ComponentModel.TypeConverter.StandardValuesCollection
  Dim obj As Object = context.Instance
  Dim DataValues as new ArrayList
  If Typeof(obj) is Label Then
     DataValues.Add("Text: " & obj.Text)
     DataValues.Add("Left: " & obj.Left)
     DataValues.Add("Top: " & obj.Top)
  Elseif Typeof(obj) is Bitmap Then
     DataValues.Add("Image")
     DataValues.Add("Height: " & obj.Height)
     DataValues.Add("Width: " & obj.Width)
  End If
  Return New StandardValuesCollection(DataValues)
End Function

 

The important part is the context.Instance - this allows you to retrieve information about the object that contains the property associated with the TypeConverter.

 

 

LiQuiD8