Giving PlusMinus buttons a different color (GridGroupingControl)

[Anne Thorne]

Hello Again,

Yesterday I spent about an hour trying to get the PlusMinus buttons a different color, not a different theme, but a differnt color -- we would like to use a dark blue (System.Drawing.Color.FromArgb(123, 134, 154))
to match the color scheme of our windows application.

Is this possible, I cannot see any examples of this being done in any of your work.

For instance, the following link shows only a themed PlusMinus button:

http://www2.syncfusion.com/ug_61/gridwin/Apperance.html


Thank you so much for all of the help you give us all.
:) Anne at Arbonne.com

[haneefm]

Hi Anne,

You need to subscribe to the grid's TableControlDrawCell event for drawing the cells. There you can use e.Inner.Graphics.FillRectanlge to draw the backcolor and then set e.Inner.Cancel = true to indicate you have handled the drawing. Below are the codes:

void gridGroupingControl1_TableControlDrawCell(object sender, GridTableControlDrawCellEventArgs e)
{
GridTableCellStyleInfo style = e.Inner.Style as GridTableCellStyleInfo;
if (style.TableCellIdentity.TableCellType == GridTableCellType.GroupCaptionPlusMinusCell)
{
e.Inner.Cancel = true;
e.Inner.Graphics.FillRectangle(new SolidBrush(Color.Red), e.Inner.Bounds);
e.Inner.Graphics.DrawRectangle(Pens.Black, e.Inner.Bounds);
Element el = style.TableCellIdentity.DisplayElement;
string text = el.ParentGroup.IsExpanded ?"-":"+";
e.Inner.Graphics.DrawString(text, e.Inner.Style.GdipFont, new SolidBrush(e.Inner.Style.TextColor), new Point( e.Inner.Bounds.X + 5,e.Inner.Bounds.Y +5) );
}
}

Best regards,
Haneef