Selecting Cell

[Mark]

Can someone explain to me how to select a cell programmatically? I can''t seem to find any documentation on this functionality. Thanks.

Mark

[Administrator]

If I''m understanding what you want, I believe all you need to do is call grid.Selections.SelectRange(GridRangeInfo.Cell(rowIndex, colIndex), true) to select a single cell.

[Mark]

If I try to do that the whole cell is selected which is not what I intend to do.

Maybe I am going about it the wrong way but what I have is an event that I capture CurrentCellActivating and what I do is set e.Cancel = true and then call the same function you just referred to but what happens is the whole cell is selected (the bahviour I want is to mimick the clicking inside of a cell to edit it). Is there something that I am doing wrong or could do differently to achieve what I want?

>If I''m understanding what you want, I believe all you need to do is call grid.Selections.SelectRange(GridRangeInfo.Cell(rowIndex, colIndex), true) to select a single cell.

[Mark]

I finally worked out a way to do it...

Within the CurrentCellActivating I do the following;

e.Cancel = true;

Then I hooked up a handler to the event CurrentCellActivateFailed where I do the following;

gridControl1.CurrentCell.Activate(e.RowIndex, e.ColIndex - 1);


This works perfect. Thanks for your help.

>If I''m understanding what you want, I believe all you need to do is call grid.Selections.SelectRange(GridRangeInfo.Cell(rowIndex, colIndex), true) to select a single cell.

[Administrator]

Mark,

I''m confused. You''re canceling the activation, then you''re activating the cell?

What you really might want to do is look at the GridControl.ActivateCurrentCellBehavior. There are several options for what you can have it do when it activates.

Or are you talking about selecting the all the text in the cell when you activate it? If that''s the case, then look at the GridCellActivateAction.SelectAll option.

Pete