Setting a style for a selected row in the DataGridView

microsoft.public.dotnet.framework.windowsforms

12 Feb 2007 10:13 AM

Simon Harvey

Hi

Can anyone tell me if there is a property for setting the default cell
style for a cell thats selected. I can see properties for the default
cell styling and alternate row styling but not for selected styles.

Am I missing something here? Do I have to write some custom formatting code?

Many thanks

Simon

12 Feb 2007 12:15 PM

ClayB

The selection settings is taken from the system setting (Advanced
Appearance tab of the Display settings om the Control Panel). One way
you can override this default behavior is to handle the CellPainting
event.

void dataGridView1_CellPainting(object sender,
DataGridViewCellPaintingEventArgs e)
{

    if (e.RowIndex > -1 && e.ColumnIndex > -1)
    {
        e.Paint(e.ClipBounds, DataGridViewPaintParts.Background

                    | DataGridViewPaintParts.Border
                    | DataGridViewPaintParts.ContentBackground
                    | DataGridViewPaintParts.ContentForeground);

        if
(this.dataGridView1.SelectedCells.Contains(this.dataGridView1[e.ColumnIndex,
e.RowIndex]))
        {
            using (Brush b = new SolidBrush(Color.FromArgb(60,
Color.Red)))
            {
                e.Graphics.FillRectangle(b, e.CellBounds);
            }
        }
        e.Handled = true;
    }
}
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Clay Burch
Syncfusion, Inc.

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12 Feb 2007 7:42 PM

Simon Harvey

Woah - holly cow - I was kinda hoping there was just a property that I
could use to set tyle stuff!

Or maybe using some "row selected" or "on selection" changed style event.

All that painting stuff seems hard! Is there something simpler?

Many thanks for your help

Simon

12 Feb 2007 7:42 PM

Tim Van Wassenhove

Simon Harvey schreef:

> Hi
>
> Can anyone tell me if there is a property for setting the default cell
> style for a cell thats selected. I can see properties for the default
> cell styling and alternate row styling but not for selected styles.
>
> Am I missing something here? Do I have to write some custom formatting
> code?

There are DefaultCellStyle.SelectionForeColor and ..SelectionBackColor

--
Tim Van Wassenhove <url:http://www.timvw.be/>

13 Feb 2007 3:25 PM

Simon Harvey

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