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Al Lelopath
Al Lelopath

Reputation: 6778

Display a String with Ampersand in GroupBox and TreeView

I have code like so (simplifying for the question):

public const string THIS_AND_THAT = "This & That";

System.Windows.Forms.GroupBox myGroupBox;
System.Windows.Forms.TreeView myTreeView;
System.Windows.Forms.TreeNode myTreeNode;

myGroupBox.Text = THIS_AND_THAT;

myTreeNode = new TreeNode(THIS_AND_THAT);
myTreeNode.Name = THIS_AND_THAT;
myTreeView.Nodes.Add(THIS_AND_THAT);

With this code, the GroupBox displays as "This That" and the TreeView displays correctly as "This & That".

So I changed the string (as suggested here) to this: 

public const string THIS_AND_THAT = "This && That";

In this case, the GroupBox displays correctly as "This & That", but the TreeView displays as "This && That". I don't see that I can use UseMnemonic Property on the GroupBox or TreeView.

What do I do?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 353

Answers (1)

Dai
Dai

Reputation: 155418

(Promoting my comment to an answer):

There is inconsistency in how different controls in Windows and WinForms handle strings displayed to the user, as you've discovered TreeView does not support escaped ampersands while GroupBox does.

Fortunately it's straightforward to provide appropriate text:

String text = "This && that";

myGroupBox.Text = text;
myTreeNode.Text = text.Replace("&&", "&");

Upvotes: 1

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