Highlight individual cell in a Windows Form grid

[Administrator]

Hi,

I would like to highlight (border and back color of) an individual cell in a Windows form grid.

Typical opearations are:
1. Right click on a cell and select an option (of some predefined options) and that should hightlight the cell

2. Search operation- search through the grid cells, when a match is found, hightlight that cell.

Do you have any sample or a explaining way for this type of operation?

I am using Syncfusion 4.2.0.37

Thanks,
Dheeraj

[Administrator]

Hi Dheeraj,

Issue 1: highlight the current cell

If you want to highlight the current cell, you can handle the PrepareViewSyleInfo event and set the style for the currentcell. Here is a code snippet,

private void gridControl1_PrepareViewStyleInfo(object sender, Syncfusion.Windows.Forms.Grid.GridPrepareViewStyleInfoEventArgs e)
{
GridControl grid = sender as GridControl;
GridCurrentCell cc = grid.CurrentCell;
if( cc.RowIndex == e.RowIndex && e.ColIndex == cc.ColIndex)
{
e.Style.BackColor = grid.AlphaBlendSelectionColor;
e.Style.Borders.All = new GridBorder(GridBorderStyle.Solid);
}
}

Issue 2:

Please refer to the below forum thread for find functionality in a Grid.
http://www.syncfusion.com/support/Forums/message.aspx?MessageID=45839

Best Regards,
Haneef

[Sandeep]

Hi Haneef,
It works very well for the current cell. But now we want it in such a way that I will choose any cell programmatically (like after searching the cell by any calculation) and then highlight the cell. I tried with your logic but it won't work. If I deactivate the program and again come to that form then I can see it is highlighted. How I can highlight it.

Following steps I want to do.
1. I will click one button.
2. Button will give me rowindex and colindex after some process.
3 I will highlight that cell of colindex and rowindex.
(I tried this with your logic of using previewstyleinfo event. but it is not hightlighting , only I can see it highlighted if I go to any other form and come back to the form)

Thanks,
Sandeep

[Sandeep]

Hi Haneef,

Please provide me the solution for the above query. Its urjent.

Thanks,
Sandeep

[Administrator]

Hi Sandeep,

Our apologies for the delay in response.

Use the Model.Selections property to manages selected ranges in the grid. It allows you to add and remove selections, determines selection state of a specific cell.

//highlight the row
this.grid1.Model.Selections.Add(GridRangeInfo.Row(RowIndex));
//highlight the cell
this.grid1.Model.Selections.Add(GridRangeInfo.Cell(RowIndex,ColIndex);
//highlight the cell
this.grid1.Model.Selections.Add(GridRangeInfo.Col(CoIIndex));

Best Regards,
Haneef