Printing settings for Grid

[Nick Pasko]

I want to print the grid with no gridlines, with a preset background and text color.
setting :
this.gridControl1.BackColor = Color.White;
this.gridControl1.ForeColor = Color.Black;
this.gridControl1.Properties.DisplayHorzLines = false;
this.gridControl1.Properties.DisplayVertLines = false;

does not make a difference - it sets only the BackColor.
ForeColor does not work at all, and gridlines are not displayed in Grid itself, but are shown in Print Preview (and are also visible on the printed document).

How can I make this work? :-\

[Administrator]

Below is code that I think will display black and white like your sample code. If you want different textcolor and background than B&W, then you will have to set grid.BaseStylesMap["Standard"].StyleInfo.TextColor (and BackColor).

grid.BeginUpdate();

grid.Properties.BlackWhite = true;
grid.Properties.DisplayHorzLines = false;
grid.Properties.DisplayVertLines = false;
GridBorderStyle border = grid.DefaultGridBorderStyle;
grid.DefaultGridBorderStyle = GridBorderStyle.None;

GridPrintDocument pd = new GridPrintDocument(gridControl1, true); 	
PrintPreviewDialog dlg = new PrintPreviewDialog() ;
dlg.Document = pd;
((Form)dlg).WindowState = FormWindowState.Maximized;
dlg.ShowDialog();

grid.Properties.BlackWhite = false;
grid.Properties.DisplayHorzLines = true;
grid.Properties.DisplayVertLines = true;
grid.DefaultGridBorderStyle = border;
grid.EndUpdate();

[Nick Pasko]

The problem is - with grid.Properties.BlackWhite set true grid does not show any colors but black and white (and, as i could see, it shows the text in black even if the text color is white).

And I need to fill some cells with colors (and I don't care they will be printed uncolored, i want them to be seen and differ from black AND white.

My current prob is if BlackWhite is set to false - grid somehow displays a system default text color, which is set to green on my PC. So, after printing it is really troublesome to read the text.

Is there any way to set the TextColor (or ForeColor, i don't care) for the entire grid, not every single cell?

[Administrator]

You can set the default TextColor for a grid by setting it in the standard style.

this.grid.BaseStylesMap["Standard"].StyleInfo.TextColor = Color.Red;

[Nick Pasko]

Thanks! :)

One additional question - how do I remove a border which is still printed?

[Administrator]

If a border is still being displayed after the previous code, then this border must be explicitly set in some style object. In this case, you would have to call style.Borders.ResetAll() to make the borders used the default border style which you set to None.

Or, the border is being drawn because of something else. For example,if it is a rowheader, then the default behavior is to draw these 3d which gives the solid line on the right and bottom of the cell which looks like a gridline. In this case, you some how have to prevent the drawing, maybe:

this.gridControl1.BaseStylesMap["Row Header"].StyleInfo.CellType = "Static";

which makes the row headers static cells instead of header cells.

[Nick Pasko]

Ouch, there seems to be a misunderstanding, probably due to my bad English..

I meant the GRID border, outlining the whole GRID, not the CELL border.

[Administrator]

There is a property setting that controls whether that frame is printed.

grid.Properties.PrintFrame = false;

[Nick Pasko]

Thanks again!