PropertyList Examples

Xceed SmartUI lets you implement the useful PropertyLists. This allows you to mimic the VB properties Objects.

Example

This example shows a SmartUI containing PropertyGroup, PropertyCombo, PropertyColor, and PropertyEdit SmartItems.

This SmartUI:

displays a Sunken Border style (BorderStyle=bsSunken),
has no Caption, and its Caption style is set to none (CaptionStyle=csNone)
is vertical (Orientation=orVertical),
is opaque (BackStyle=bkOpaque), but it may have been transparent or semi-transparent,
has its Sorted Property set to false (Sorted=False): the SmartItems are not sorted alphabetically
has its ShowFocusRect Property set to false (ShowFocusRect =False): no dotted lines shown
displays no Scrollbar ( ScrollBarStyle=sbNone),
shows a ButtonFlat PlusMinus button style (PlusMinusStyle=pmButtonFlat), and shows no Treelines (ShowTreeLines=False).

Now let's have a more detailed look at the SmartItems.

This SmartUI contains:

5 PropertyGroup ("Appearance", "Hot", "Color", "Behavior", "Miscellaneous"), which Caption is bold by default (Bold=True).
The "Appearance" and "Color" Items' Expanded Property is set to false (Expanded=False).
6 PropertyCombo ("HotBold", "HotItalic", "HotUnderline", "HandPointer", "HotTrackSelect", "ItemType" and "Enabled"). They all have Caption, and some of them have an Image: "HotBold", "HotUnderline", ...

Each PropertyCombo has a collection of SubItems, which are ListItemFullRow SmartItems: "True" and "False", or "100 - ToolDefault".

We may also have added a PropertyLabel, a PropertyBrowse, or a PropertyComboEdit SmartItem.

Of course, you can customize each item with Bold, HotBold, Underline, HotUnderline, Italic, HotItalic, ForeColor, HotForeColor, Image, HotImage, and so on. Besides, as all those SmartItems can have the Focus, you can specify SelectedBold, SelectedUnderline, SelectedItalic, SelectedImage, and even HotTrackSelect Properties.

And as incredible as it may seem, this SmartUI remains a windowless control!