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Pressing a key in a Grid Component?

Updated: 10 Jul 2010 | 2 comments
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So I have a grid filled up with a list of 200 software applications.

Is it possible to have the user hit the letter "m" and jump to the m's ?

Or, crazy talk, start typing in the name of an app and have it jump to that section?

A pretty common function when navigating lists but I can't get this to work with a Grid or Gridview.

Any ideas?!  Different component?  Not possible?

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reecardo's picture
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2010
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You could try writing a

You could try writing a custom keypress event that will, given the letter typed, advance through all the grid rows and stripe/set focus on the first row that matches.

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I was afraid that might be

I was afraid that might be the only way.