How to use shared scrollbars in the WinForms GridControl?
Scrollbar behavior
You can make two WinForms GridControl to share the scrollbars, so that when you scroll one of the GridControls, then the other one also gets scrolled. This is achieved by setting the HScrollBehavior and VScrollBehavior properties of the GridControl. You have to set the InnerScrollBar property for both the scrollbars. You can enable pixel scrolling by setting the ScrollPixel property.
//set the shared mode to the horizontal scroll bar
this.gridControl1.HScrollBehavior = GridScrollbarMode.Shared;
//set the shared mode to the Vertical scroll bar
this.gridControl1.VScrollBehavior = GridScrollbarMode.Shared;
this.gridControl1.UseSharedScrollBars = true;
//set the horizontal pixel scrolling for GridControl1
this.gridControl1.HScrollPixel = true;
//set the vertical pixel scrolling for GridControl1
this.gridControl1.VScrollPixel = true;
//set the horizontal pixel scrolling for GridControl2
this.gridControl2.HScrollPixel = true;
//set the vertical pixel scrolling for GridControl1
this.gridControl2.VScrollPixel = true;
this.gridControl1.HScrollBar.InnerScrollBar = this.gridControl2.HScrollBar.InnerScrollBar;
this.gridControl1.VScrollBar.InnerScrollBar = this.gridControl2.VScrollBar.InnerScrollBar;'set the shared mode to the horizontal scroll bar
Me.gridControl1.HScrollBehavior = GridScrollbarMode.Shared
'set the shared mode to the Vertical scroll bar
Me.gridControl1.VScrollBehavior = GridScrollbarMode.Shared
Me.gridControl1.UseSharedScrollBars = True
'set the horizontal pixel scrolling for GridControl1
Me.gridControl1.HScrollPixel = True
'set the vertical pixel scrolling for GridControl1
Me.gridControl1.VScrollPixel = True
'set the horizontal pixel scrolling for GridControl2
Me.gridControl2.HScrollPixel = True
'set the vertical pixel scrolling for GridControl1
Me.gridControl2.VScrollPixel = True
Me.gridControl1.HScrollBar.InnerScrollBar = Me.gridControl2.HScrollBar.InnerScrollBar
Me.gridControl1.VScrollBar.InnerScrollBar = Me.gridControl2.VScrollBar.InnerScrollBar After applying the properties, the Grid is
shown as follows,
Figure 1: The scrollbar is shared in the GridControl.
Note:
The grids are synchronized using these properties. When the user scrolls the grid, which will affect the scrolling of the other grid in the form.
Samples:
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Conclusion
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