SelectItemForm

SelectItemForm is a dialogue form which is using for select an item from lists such as IEnumerable or DataTable. Also, the SelectItemForm has ability to sort and search items by criteria.

This page describes how to show items on the SelectItemForm. For selecting items, please see the Static methods of SelectItemForm page.

Simple using SelectItemForm

var items = new Dictionary<int, string>();
items.Add(1, "First value");
items.Add(2, "Second value");
items.Add(3, "More values...");
using (var form = SelectItemForm.CreateFormWithoutColumns(
                      items, "My values", "These values are mine"))
{
  form.dataGrid.AddTextColumn("key", "Key").SetNumberStyle();
  form.dataGrid.AddTextColumn("value", "Value").SetAutoSizeFillStyle(50);
  form.ShowDialog();
}

Using SelectItemForm with DataTable

var items = new DataTable();
items.Columns.AddRange(new DataColumn[] {
    new DataColumn("ID", typeof(byte)),
    new DataColumn("Group", typeof(string)),
    new DataColumn("Remarks", typeof(string))});
items.Columns[0].Unique = true;
items.Columns[2].AllowDBNull = true;
items.Rows.Add(0, "Default");
items.Rows.Add(1, "Regular", "Regular group");
items.Rows.Add(2, "RG+Bonus", "Regular group with bonuses");
items.Rows.Add(3, "RET");
items.Rows.Add(4, "BIN");

using (var form = SelectItemForm.CreateFormWithoutColumns(items, "Groups"))
{
  form.dataGrid.AddTextColumn(
        items.Columns[0].ColumnName, "ID").SetNumberStyle();
  form.dataGrid.AddTextColumn(
        items.Columns[1].ColumnName, "Group");
  form.dataGrid.AddTextColumn(
        items.Columns[2].ColumnName, "Remarks").SetAutoSizeFillStyle(50);
  form.ShowDialog();
}

Additional methods

The SelectItemForm provides two methods for showing the text on Header and Footer:

public void SetHeaderText(string Text)

public void SetFooterText(string Text)