Colors in Datagrid

[DwaineC]

Can I set a color scheme (or cell style) for individual cells? I simply want the foreground and background color of certains cells to be different than the rest, dependent upon the data. Since it is a bound grid, I will traverse the cells and check the data one by one... but I can't find any cell property which allows me to change the colors for a single cell...

Thx in advance...

 

[nomi2000]

Hi
DawienC
here is what you want

http://www.syncfusion.com/FAQ/WinForms/FAQ_c44c.asp#q745q

Hope it will help you
Regards
Nouman

Nouman Zaheer
Software Engineer
MSR

 

[DwaineC]

I did find that in another post and yes, it does work. I chose to override the paint event in an inherited DataGridTextBoxColumn. Seems a little silly to have to do all that, but... it works. I can understand making controls more flexible - but they certainly could have simply added a cell color property...

Thx for your response...

Dwaine

 

[markinro]

I have a related question. I have several columns which are color coded depending on their cell contents. The grid is loaded and looks great. The user needs to change this cells and the color should also change. I not sure which event to override. I thought about the invalidate event to force a paint to occur. Will this repaint the entire grid or just the one cell ?

 

[DwaineC]

Markinro,

Create a DataTextBoxcolumn for each column you wish to override the paint event. Add that column to the gridstyle and you will be on your way. Within the overrided paint event you'll know the row being updated and you can trap for the cell data and choose your color brushes.