PropertyEditor.DeclaredType?

I've been struggling a bit with using Editors in a case like the following.  Suppose you have class Person with a Pet property and there are five instances of pets.  If SelectedObject is set to a Person, I'd like the Pet property to show as a ComboBox in which the five pets appear and allow the user to select one and assign it.

In my first run at this, I tried to use a TypeEditor for Pet and then eventually came to understand that a TypeEditor cannot be used to completely replace the instance it's editing.  I could use a Pet TypeEditor to expose the attributes of a Pet, but not to assign a new Pet to a Person.

So then I moved on to a PropertyEditor which I got working fine.  The problem with the PropertyEditor, as I see it, is that it requires me to either apply it to all properties with a given name, or to specify the DeclaringType in which the properties reside.  But it seems what would be most useful is to be able to specify only the DeclaredType.  This way I could register a PropertyEditor for DeclaredType=Pet instead of (Type=Person, PropertyName=Pet).  As it is, I have many classes that play the role of Person in this example, and they don't all name the Pet property the same thing.  This requires me to register a lot of PropertyEditors instead of registering a single PropertyEditor for all Pet properties.

Am I missing something?

Kevin Donn

The behaviour you describe for TypeEditor is the default behaviour for reference types (classes), but you can override this by setting TypeEditor.TemplateBindingMode to WrappedObject.  This will force the TypeEditor to use the PropertyEditor behaviour, so that you can replace the Pet rather than modifying it.

Yep.  Definitely a case of RTFM.  Works great.  Thanks!

kd