trigger file upload dialog using javascript/jquery

You mean something like this? http://jsfiddle.net/CSvjw/ $(‘input[type=text]’).click(function() { $(‘input[type=file]’).trigger(‘click’); }); $(‘input[type=file]’).change(function() { $(‘input[type=text]’).val($(this).val()); }); Note, though, that the value given by the file input is fake for security reasons. If you want to just have the file name show up, you can cut out the slashes. Here’s an example of how to do it using … Read more

Call Javascript onchange event by programmatically changing textbox value

This is an old question, and I’m not sure if it will help, but I’ve been able to programatically fire an event using: if (document.createEvent && ctrl.dispatchEvent) { var evt = document.createEvent(“HTMLEvents”); evt.initEvent(“change”, true, true); ctrl.dispatchEvent(evt); // for DOM-compliant browsers } else if (ctrl.fireEvent) { ctrl.fireEvent(“onchange”); // for IE }

Making specific Text Boldefaced in a TextBox

use a RichTextBox, below a method that i have wrote for this problem – hope it helps 😉 /// <summary> /// This method highlights the assigned text with the specified color. /// </summary> /// <param name=”textToMark”>The text to be marked.</param> /// <param name=”color”>The new Backgroundcolor.</param> /// <param name=”richTextBox”>The RichTextBox.</param> /// <param name=”startIndex”>The zero-based starting caracter … Read more

How to follow the end of a text in a TextBox with no NoWrap?

A quick method is to measure the string (words) that needs scrolling with TextRenderer.MeasureText, divide the width measure in parts equals to the number of chars in the string and use ScrollToHorizontalOffset() to perform the scroll: public async void TextRotation() { float textPart = TextRenderer.MeasureText(words, new Font(Text.FontFamily.Source, (float)Text.FontSize)).Width / words.Length; for (int i = 0; … Read more

Ruby on Rails: Advanced search

You can create a new controller called search. Your search form: <%= form_tag search_index_path, method: :get do %> <%= text_field_tag :project, params[:project] %> <%= text_field_tag :client, params[:client] %> <%= submit_tag “Search”, name: nil %> <% end %> incude in your routes.rb: get “search/index” your search controller: def index #store all the projects that match the … Read more

Why isn’t TextBox.Text in WPF animatable?

Trying to animate the TextBox manually …. var timeline = new StringAnimationUsingKeyFrames(); timeline.KeyFrames.Add(new DiscreteStringKeyFrame(“Goodbye”, KeyTime.FromTimeSpan(new TimeSpan(0,0,1)))); textControl.BeginAnimation(TextBox.TextProperty, timeline); …reveals a more useful error message. The last line fails with the following ArgumentException: ‘Text’ property is not animatable on ‘System.Windows.Controls.TextBox’ class because the IsAnimationProhibited flag has been set on the UIPropertyMetadata used to associate the property … Read more

WPF modeless dialog from MS Excel add-in

Solved it, courtesy of this link: Running WPF Application with Multiple UI Threads var thread = new Thread(() => { var wpfWindow = new WPFWindow(); wpfWindow.Show(); wpfWindow.Closed += (sender2, e2) => wpfWindow.Dispatcher.InvokeShutdown(); Dispatcher.Run(); }); thread.SetApartmentState(ApartmentState.STA); thread.Start();

Override Paste Into TextBox

That’s possible, you can intercept the low-level Windows message that the native TextBox control gets that tells it to paste from the clipboard. The WM_PASTE message. Generated both when you press Ctrl+V with the keyboard or use the context menu’s Paste command. You catch it by overriding the control’s WndProc() method, performing the paste as … Read more