Bug Report T314926
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XtraSpreadsheet - Poor usability on entering cell names

created 9 years ago

Hello,

I noticed some strange behaviour in the SpreadsheetNameBoxControl. The current behaviour is that when you enter a name it directly jumps to the cell where the current input matches a previously defined name. This happens as you type.

Now image I have a spreadsheet with a cell named "Test". Next I want to name another cell "Test2". So I select the desired cell and start to type the name into the SpreadsheetNameBoxControl. Immediately after I type "T-e-s-t" the current selection jumps to the existing cell with this name. So when I don't notice this and continue to type "2" (because I wanted my cell to be named "Test2") and hit enter, the new selected cell gets a second name, which is not what I wanted. The only way to name my other cell "Test2" is to paste this text from clipboard and hit enter.

MS Excel behaves differently: Here, the selection of a cell after typing in the name only occurs after hitting enter. I think the current behaviour in the SpreadsheetControl isn't optimal. If there's an option to change this behaviour I'd be happy if you could point me to it. I haven't found it on my on. But still I think the default behaviour should be like in Excel.

Comments (1)
DevExpress Support Team 9 years ago

    Hello,
    I have reproduced the behavior and passed this ticket to our developers for further research. Please bear with us.
    We will notify you as soon as we make any progress.

    Answers approved by DevExpress Support

    created 9 years ago

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