How to make a grid cell as read-only in WinForms GridGroupingControl?
Make grid cell as read-only
To make a grid cell as read-only, without having the cursor while clicking on the cell, you can cancel the TableControlCurrentCellStartEditing event. In the following code, the cursor is disabled when you click on the RecordFieldCell in the WinForms GridGroupingControl.
C#
this.gridGroupingControl1.TableControlCurrentCellStartEditing += gridGroupingControl1_TableControlCurrentCellStartEditing;
//Disable Record rows being edited and disables blinking cursor inside the cell.
void gridGroupingControl1_TableControlCurrentCellStartEditing(object sender, Syncfusion.Windows.Forms.Grid.Grouping.GridTableControlCancelEventArgs e)
{
GridTableCellStyleInfo style = this.gridGroupingControl1.TableControl.GetTableViewStyleInfo(e.TableControl.CurrentCell.RowIndex, e.TableControl.CurrentCell.ColIndex);
if(style.TableCellIdentity.TableCellType==GridTableCellType.RecordFieldCell || style.TableCellIdentity.TableCellType==GridTableCellType.AlternateRecordFieldCell)
{
e.Inner.Cancel = true;
}
}
VB
Private Me.gridGroupingControl1.TableControlCurrentCellStartEditing += AddressOf gridGroupingControl1_TableControlCurrentCellStartEditing 'Disable Record rows being edited and disables blinking cursor inside the cell. Private Sub gridGroupingControl1_TableControlCurrentCellStartEditing(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As Syncfusion.Windows.Forms.Grid.Grouping.GridTableControlCancelEventArgs) Dim style As GridTableCellStyleInfo = Me.gridGroupingControl1.TableControl.GetTableViewStyleInfo(e.TableControl.CurrentCell.RowIndex, e.TableControl.CurrentCell.ColIndex) If style.TableCellIdentity.TableCellType=GridTableCellType.RecordFieldCell OrElse style.TableCellIdentity.TableCellType=GridTableCellType.AlternateRecordFieldCell Then e.Inner.Cancel = True End If End Sub
When you are using the browse only property, you can achieve the same behavior but you cannot apply filtering to the grid.
Samples:
C#: Read-only
VB: Read-only
Conclusion
I hope you enjoyed learning about how to make a grid cell as read-only in WinForms GridGroupingControl.
You can refer to our WinForms GridGroupingControl feature tour page to know about its other groundbreaking feature representations. You can also explore our WinForms GridGroupingControl documentation to understand how to create and manipulate data.
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