click as doubleclick

Can anyone tell me how to make a datagrid think I doubleclicked a cell when I actually single clicked? I assume I would do a raiseevent but I can''t figure it out. I am trying impliment a search feature on a datagrid where the user can type letters on a keyboard and the grid jumps to the selected item in a presorted column. The keypress event only seems to fire after a double click but not a single click. Thanks

There is a method you can all, but I am not sure that is what you need though. gridControl1.RaiseCellDoubleClick Is the problem when you click into a cell, a particular KeyPress event is not being raised, but when you double click it, the event is raised? If so, you might try various settings of the grid.ActivateCurrentCellBehavior. Maybe setting it to GridCellActivateAction.ClickOnCell will make teh click activate the cell like a double click does now.

I am using a datagrid, I do not see a RaiseCellDoubleClick method anywhere. If I click on the datagrid header then press a key, the onkeypress event is raised. If I single click in a cell then press a key, the onkeypress event is not raised. If I double click on a cell, then it is raised. BTW, I am using a derived datagrid to override the onmousedown event to select the entire row instead of a single cell. I suspect however something is still going on behind the scenes to move the focus from the datagrid to the textbox cell. My grid is readonly so I don''t need to worry about editing text in the cells. >There is a method you can all, but I am not sure that is what you need though. > >gridControl1.RaiseCellDoubleClick > > >Is the problem when you click into a cell, a particular KeyPress event is not being raised, but when you double click it, the event is raised? If so, you might try various settings of the grid.ActivateCurrentCellBehavior. Maybe setting it to GridCellActivateAction.ClickOnCell will make teh click activate the cell like a double click does now.

If by datagrid, you mean GridDataBoundGrid, then there should be a RaiseCellDoubleClick method in version 3.3 of our libraries. Are you using some other version? If you mean a System.Windows.Forms.DataGrid, then this forum is for support of the grids that are included in Essential Grid.

What I wanted was in the FAQ 5.40 When I Left clicked, it entered the cell text box. Thus the datagrid keypress would not fire because I wasn''t in the datagrid, I was in a cell''s textbox. Problem solved.