This Topic Illustrates the Following:You can specify the maximum height and maximum width of a combo box's drop-down list by setting its MaxDropDownHeight and MaxDropDownWidth properties. This topic assumes that the DropDownHeight and DropDownWidth properties are both set to NaN. For more information, see Drop-Down List Sizing.
In the Designer
Complete the following steps:
1. Click the C1ComboBox control once to select it.
2. In the Properties window, complete the following:
•Set the MaxDropDownHeight to a value, such as "150".
•Set the MaxDropDownWidth to a value, such as "350".
3. Run the program and click the combo box's drop-down arrow to see the result of your settings.
In XAML
Complete the following steps:
1. Add
MaxDropDownHeight="150" and MaxDropDownWidth="350" to
the <c1:C1ComboBox> tag so that the markup resembles the
following:
<c1:C1ComboBox HorizontalAlignment="Left" Width="249"
MaxDropDownHeight="150"
MaxDropDownWidth="350">
2. Run the program and click the combo box's drop-down arrow to see the result of your settings.
In Code
Complete the following steps:
1. Open the MainPage.xaml.cs page.
2. Add the following code beneath the InitializeComponent() method to set the DropDownHeight property :
C1ComboBox1.MaxDropDownHeight = 150
•C#
c1ComboBox1.MaxDropDownHeight = 150;
3. Add the following code beneath the InitializeComponent() method to set the DropDownWidth property :
C1ComboBox1.MaxDropDownWidth = 350
•C#
c1ComboBox1.MaxDropDownWidth = 350;
4. Run the program and click the combo box's drop-down arrow to see the result of your settings.
This Topic Illustrates the Following:
In this topic, you set the MaxDropDownWidth property to a value of 350 pixels and the MaxDropDownHeight property to a value of 150 pixels. With these settings, the width of the drop-down list will never be more than 350 pixels and the height will never be more than 150 pixels; however, the height and width can be less than 150 pixels by 350 pixels that if the items in the list aren't enough to fill that area.