Using a Custom Dialog Box

There may be instances where you want to use your own custom version of the built-in C1Editor dialog boxes. This can easily be done with the CustomDialogs property.

First implement the custom dialog box and make sure it supports the appropriate interface, IFindReplaceDialog for a custom Find and Replace dialog box, for example.

In this example, we'll assume you have created three custom dialog boxes: BookmarkDialog, FindReplaceDialog, and FormattingDialog.

Add the following code to your project to set the CustomDialogs property.

To write code in C#

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private void InitCustomDialogs() { editor.CustomDialogs.BookmarkDialog = new BookmarkEditorForm(); editor.CustomDialogs.FindReplaceDialog = new FindReplaceForm(); editor.CustomDialogs.FormattingDialog = new FormattingForm(); }

Then you can use the ShowDialog method to open each new dialog box. In this example, we have a toolStrip with three buttons that, when clicked, open the custom dialog boxes.

To write code in C#

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private void toolStrip1_ItemClicked(object sender, ToolStripItemClickedEventArgs e) { // opens the Bookmark dialog box if (e.ClickedItem == buttonBookmark) editor.ShowDialog(C1.Win.Editor.DialogType.Bookmark); // opens the Find dialog box else if (e.ClickedItem == buttonFind) editor.ShowDialog(C1.Win.Editor.DialogType.Find); // opens the Formatting dialog box else if (e.ClickedItem == buttonFormatting) editor.ShowDialog(C1.Win.Editor.DialogType.Format); }

For a detailed example on creating and using custom dialog boxes, see the Custom Dialogs sample installed with the product.