AddNewRecord Row

[Hans Dampf]

Hi,

I am wondering if I can modify the appearance of the "AddNewRecord" row. So I want the AddNewRecord row to be only one cell (merge all columns in that row) and the row should be read only. When the user clicks on that row a dialog opens to add a new item (row) to the grid. So that the main purpose of this row is to open a dialog. The row should also contain some text e.g. "Click here to add a new record".

Is this possible with syncfusion?

A small example would be great.

Cheers,
Carl

[Rajagopal]

Hi Carl,

This can be done by handling a couple of events in grid. Using the CoveredRanges method of the TableModel, all the cells in the addnewrecord can be made to look as a single cell. Please refer to the sample below that does what you have described.

Here is the sample download link
http://websamples.syncfusion.com/samples/Grid.Windows/F62828/main.htm

Thanks for your interest in Syncfusion Products.

Have a nice time.
Regards,
Rajagopal

[Carl]

Hi Rajagopal,

thank you for your reply. I have modified your sample so that it fits to our approach. When you run the sample and click on the "Fill Table" button you will get an exception.

Can you tell me what's wrong here?

Cheers

GGC_AddNewRec1.zip

[Carl]

Hi,

any news on that issue?

Cheers,
Carl

[Carl]

Hi,

its me again, just wanna know if you have any updates on this issue. Currently we are stuck at the new record row problem.

Thanks,
Carl

[Carl]

Hi,

any news on that issue - it would be great if you can help us here - we are still locking for a workaround.

Best regards,
Carl

[haneefm]

Hi Carl,

My sincere apologies for this delay in responding.

The reason is that you are setting the Style.CellValue for the AddNewRecord cell in a QueryCellStyleInfo event. Instead of setting the CellValue of the AddNewRecordCell, try hanlding the TableControlDrawCell event to draw the AddNewRecordCell manually. Below are the code snippet to show this task.


void gridGroupingControl1_TableControlDrawCell(object sender, GridTableControlDrawCellEventArgs e)
{
GridTableCellStyleInfo styleInfo = (GridTableCellStyleInfo)e.Inner.Style;
if (styleInfo.TableCellIdentity.DisplayElement.Kind == DisplayElementKind.AddNewRecord
&& e.Inner.ColIndex > 0 )
{
e.Inner.Renderer.Draw(e.Inner.Graphics, e.Inner.Bounds, e.Inner.RowIndex, e.Inner.ColIndex, e.Inner.Style);
e.Inner.Graphics.DrawString("Click Here to add a new record", new Font("Arial", 10f), Brushes.Blue, e.Inner.Bounds);
e.Inner.Cancel = true;
}
}

Please refer to the attached sample for modification and let me know if this helps.
ModifiedGGC_AddNewRec1.zip

Many thanks for your patience.

Best regards,
Haneef