How to highlight current row cell in WinForms GridControl?
Highlights the selected row
This can be done by handling the PrepareViewStyleInfo event
and by changing the text color and the back color of the selected ranges of
cells in the WinForms GridControl.
void gridControl1_PrepareViewStyleInfo(object sender, Syncfusion.Windows.Forms.Grid.GridPrepareViewStyleInfoEventArgs e)
{
GridControlBase grid = gridControl1;
GridCurrentCell cc = gridControl1.CurrentCell;
// Highlight the current row with SystemColors.Highlight and bold font
if(e.RowIndex > grid.Model.Rows.HeaderCount && e.ColIndex > grid.Model.Cols.HeaderCount && cc.HasCurrentCellAt(e.RowIndex))
{
e.Style.Interior = new BrushInfo(SystemColors.Highlight);
e.Style.TextColor = SystemColors.HighlightText;
e.Style.Font.Bold = true;
}
}Private Sub gridControl1_PrepareViewStyleInfo(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As Syncfusion.Windows.Forms.Grid.GridPrepareViewStyleInfoEventArgs)
Dim grid As GridControlBase = gridControl1
Dim cc As GridCurrentCell = gridControl1.CurrentCell
' Highlight the current row with SystemColors.Highlight and bold font
If e.RowIndex > grid.Model.Rows.HeaderCount AndAlso e.ColIndex > grid.Model.Cols.HeaderCount AndAlso cc.HasCurrentCellAt(e.RowIndex) Then
e.Style.Interior = New BrushInfo(SystemColors.Highlight)
e.Style.TextColor = SystemColors.HighlightText
e.Style.Font.Bold = True
End If
End SubAfter
applying the properties, the grid is shown as follows.
Figure 1: Highlighted the current row including current cell
Samples:
C#: HighLightRow
VB: HighLightRow
Conclusion
I hope you
enjoyed learning about how to highlight current row cell in WinForms
GridControl.
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