Allow selection, disable edit

[ian bradley]

I'm looking for something like the StaticCell type from the GridControl. So I want to be able to select cells, but I do not want the user to be able to select text in a cell. When they click on a cell it should not enter edit mode.

I can disable edits by making the GridColumnDescription readonly, but you can still click in a cell and it allows you to select text.

[ian bradley]

Interesting, I managed to do it but have a follow on question: So I did this:

private void _gridGroupingControl_QueryCellStyleInfo(object sender, GridTableCellStyleInfoEventArgs e)
{
    e.Style.CellType = "Static";
}

Which isn't ideal. It was pure chance that I thought the StyleInfos might still exist, so how do I define and associate them? How are they different to the GridColumnDescriptors? They seem to have similar stuff in them.

[ian bradley]

Sorry, last spam, still need answer. Setting it to static does what I want for the cell, but also disables any other formatting I applied via the table style and so on. Which I guess is logical. So what is the bit of the style that actually makes the text static?

[ian bradley]

Ok, solved that too. It seems the GridColumnDescriptors appearance  has cell infos for lots of different types of cell, so

desc3.Appearance.RecordFieldCell.CellType = "Static";

makes my column static for record field cells which are the ones I want.

[Asarudheen S]

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