Cell Spacing

[Jamie Wright]

Is there a concept of cell spacing within the Syncfusion Grid? By cell spacing, I mean that the grid renders space between the cells. I would lile this because I have a situation where cells in the grid have different back colors and no text. I would like to display space between these cells so that there is some space between the colors. If there is no cell spacing attribute, is there another way to get around this issue?

[Administrator]

One way you can do this is to handle the DrawCellBackground event and draw the background there yourself. In order for this event to be hit on a particular cell, you must set that cell''s style.Interior = Syncfusion.Drawing.BrushInfo.Empty;. So, for example, you could have code like this:

//in form.load set the styles empty on these cells.
this.gridControl1[2,2].Interior = Syncfusion.Drawing.BrushInfo.Empty;
this.gridControl1[2,3].Interior = Syncfusion.Drawing.BrushInfo.Empty;
this.gridControl1[2,4].Interior = Syncfusion.Drawing.BrushInfo.Empty;
this.gridControl1[3,2].Interior = Syncfusion.Drawing.BrushInfo.Empty;
this.gridControl1[3,3].Interior = Syncfusion.Drawing.BrushInfo.Empty;
this.gridControl1[3,4].Interior = Syncfusion.Drawing.BrushInfo.Empty;
this.gridControl1[4,2].Interior = Syncfusion.Drawing.BrushInfo.Empty;
this.gridControl1[4,3].Interior = Syncfusion.Drawing.BrushInfo.Empty;
this.gridControl1[4,4].Interior = Syncfusion.Drawing.BrushInfo.Empty;


//the handler
private void gridControl1_DrawCellBackground(object sender, GridDrawCellBackgroundEventArgs e)
{
	Rectangle rect = e.TargetBounds;
	int off = 3;
	rect = new Rectangle(rect.X + off, rect.Y + off, rect.Width - 2 * off, rect.Height - 2 * off);
	Color c = (e.Style.Interior.IsEmpty) ? Color.Red : e.Style.BackColor;
	using (Brush b = new SolidBrush(c))
	{
		e.Graphics.FillRectangle(b, rect);
	}
	e.Cancel = true;
}