Auto-width of ComboBox's content

问题

Does anybody know a way to set the ComboBox's content's width to autosize

I do not mean the ComboBox itself, just the opened content.

回答1:

You can't use it directly.

Do a trick

First iterate through all items of your combobox, check for the width of every items by assigning the text to a label. Then, check width every time, if width of current item gets greater than previous items then change the maximum width.

int DropDownWidth(ComboBox myCombo)
{
    int maxWidth = 0;
    int temp = 0;
    Label label1 = new Label();

    foreach (var obj in myCombo.Items)
    {
        label1.Text = obj.ToString();
        temp = label1.PreferredWidth;
        if (temp > maxWidth)
        {
            maxWidth = temp;
        }
    }
    label1.Dispose();
    return maxWidth;           
}

private void Form1_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
    comboBox1.DropDownWidth = DropDownWidth(comboBox1);
}

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OR

As suggested by stakx, you can use TextRenderer class

int DropDownWidth(ComboBox myCombo)
{
    int maxWidth = 0, temp = 0;
    foreach (var obj in myCombo.Items)
    {
        temp = TextRenderer.MeasureText(obj.ToString(), myCombo.Font).Width;
        if (temp > maxWidth)
        {
            maxWidth = temp;
        }
    }
    return maxWidth;
}

回答2:

Here is very elegant solution. Just subscribe your combobox to this event handler:

 private void AdjustWidthComboBox_DropDown(object sender, EventArgs e)
        {
            var senderComboBox = (ComboBox)sender;
            int width = senderComboBox.DropDownWidth;
            Graphics g = senderComboBox.CreateGraphics();
            Font font = senderComboBox.Font;

            int vertScrollBarWidth = (senderComboBox.Items.Count > senderComboBox.MaxDropDownItems)
                    ? SystemInformation.VerticalScrollBarWidth : 0;

            var itemsList = senderComboBox.Items.Cast<object>().Select(item => item.ToString());

            foreach (string s in itemsList)
            {
                int newWidth = (int)g.MeasureString(s, font).Width + vertScrollBarWidth;

                if (width < newWidth)
                {
                    width = newWidth;
                }
            }

            senderComboBox.DropDownWidth = width;
        }

This code was taken from the codeproject: Adjust combo box drop down list width to longest string width. But I have modified it to work with comboboxes filled with any data (not only strings).

回答3:

obj.ToString() doesn't work for me, I suggest to use myCombo.GetItemText(obj). This works for me:

private int DropDownWidth(ComboBox myCombo)
{
    int maxWidth = 0, temp = 0;
    foreach (var obj in myCombo.Items)
    {
        temp = TextRenderer.MeasureText(myCombo.GetItemText(obj), myCombo.Font).Width;
        if (temp > maxWidth)
        {
            maxWidth = temp;
        }
    }
    return maxWidth + SystemInformation.VerticalScrollBarWidth;
}

回答4:

Mostly the same code as in Javed Akram's second suggestion, but the width of the vertical scroll bar is added:

int setWidth_comboBox(ComboBox cb)
{
  int maxWidth = 0, temp = 0;
  foreach (string s in cb.Items)
  {
    temp = TextRenderer.MeasureText(s, cb.Font).Width;
    if (temp > maxWidth)
    {
      maxWidth = temp;
    }
  }
  return maxWidth + SystemInformation.VerticalScrollBarWidth;
}

Use the code like this (on a form with a combobox with the name myComboBox):

myComboBox.Width = setWidth_comboBox(myComboBox);

回答5:

This is an old question, but I just ran into it and combined a couple of the answers for my solution. I liked the simplicity of the accepted answer but wanted something that would work with any object type in the combo box. I also wanted to make use of the method through an extension method.

    public static int AutoDropDownWidth(this ComboBox myCombo)
    {
        return AutoDropDownWidth<object>(myCombo, o => o.ToString());
    }
    public static int AutoDropDownWidth<T>(this ComboBox myCombo, Func<T, string> description)
    {
        int maxWidth = 1;
        int temp = 1;
        int vertScrollBarWidth = (myCombo.Items.Count > myCombo.MaxDropDownItems)
                ? SystemInformation.VerticalScrollBarWidth : 0;

        foreach (T obj in myCombo.Items)
        {
            if (obj is T)
            {
                T t = (T)obj;
                temp = TextRenderer.MeasureText(description(t), myCombo.Font).Width;
                if (temp > maxWidth)
                {
                    maxWidth = temp;
                }
            }

        }
        return maxWidth + vertScrollBarWidth;
    }

This way if my class is:

public class Person
{
    public string FullName {get;set;}
}

I could auto adjust the combo box drop down width like this:

cbPeople.DropDownWidth = cbPeople.AutoDropDownWidth<Person>(p => p.FullName);

回答6:

Old but classic, hope to work fast enough

private int GetDropDownWidth(ComboBox combo)
{
    object[] items = new object[combo.Items.Count];
    combo.Items.CopyTo(items, 0);
    return items.Select(obj => TextRenderer.MeasureText(combo.GetItemText(obj), combo.Font).Width).Max();
}

回答7:

Vote for algreat's answer below.

I simply modified algreat's answer with code resize the entire control.

I would have just added it as a comment but couldn't add formatted code on the comment.

private void combo_DropDown(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
    //http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/5801/Adjust-combo-box-drop-down-list-width-to-longest-s
    ComboBox senderComboBox = (ComboBox)sender;
    int width = senderComboBox.DropDownWidth;
    Graphics g = senderComboBox.CreateGraphics();
    Font font = senderComboBox.Font;
    int vertScrollBarWidth =
        (senderComboBox.Items.Count > senderComboBox.MaxDropDownItems)
        ? SystemInformation.VerticalScrollBarWidth : 0;

    int newWidth;
    foreach (string s in ((ComboBox)sender).Items)
    {
        newWidth = (int)g.MeasureString(s, font).Width
            + vertScrollBarWidth;
        if (width < newWidth)
        {
            width = newWidth;
        }

        if (senderComboBox.Width < newWidth)
        {
            senderComboBox.Width = newWidth+ SystemInformation.VerticalScrollBarWidth;
        }
    }
    senderComboBox.DropDownWidth = width;
}

来源：https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4842160/auto-width-of-comboboxs-content