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Onkelbummms
Onkelbummms

Reputation: 226

WPF Combobox loses Text after Selection

I would like to have a searchable combobox. When I type something into it, the itemlist gets filtered. OnTextChanged does this quite fine. The second part is, inside the comboboxlist all the items are displayed with their shortdescription, but when I select an item, I want the key to be displayed. On SelectionChanged should do that, but everytime I select an item, the combobox input field gets overwritten with "".

private void OnTextChanged(object sender, TextChangedEventArgs e)
{
    ItemSource = new ObservableCollection<RoleKeyElementVM>(DataSource.Where(x => x.ShortDescription.Contains(RoleKeyCombobox.Text) || x.Key.ToString() == RoleKeyCombobox.Text));
    RoleKeyCombobox.ItemsSource = ItemSource;
}


private void OnSelectionChanged(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
    RoleKeyElementVM SelectedItem = RoleKeyCombobox.SelectedItem as RoleKeyElementVM;
    if(SelectedItem != null)
         RoleKeyCombobox.Text = SelectedItem.Key.ToString();
}

The selection should look like this: image1

and the filtering like this

image2

How can I prevent the combobox from overwriting my custom text with a ""?

Update:

The combobox we are talking about:

    <ComboBox 
        Name="RoleKeyCombobox"
        Margin="5" Grid.Column="2" Grid.Row="0"
        IsEditable="True"
        IsSynchronizedWithCurrentItem="False"
        TextBoxBase.TextChanged="OnTextChanged"
        SelectionChanged="OnSelectionChanged">
        <ComboBox.ItemTemplate>
            <DataTemplate>
                <TextBlock Text="{Binding ShortDescription}"/>
            </DataTemplate>
        </ComboBox.ItemTemplate>
    </ComboBox>

Upvotes: 2

Views: 617

Answers (1)

Milan
Milan

Reputation: 616

remove OnSelectionChanged

add the following to the RoleKeyElementVM

public override string ToString()
{
    return this.Key;
}

better?

Upvotes: 1

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