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Kenneth
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Copy and paste when grid is readonly
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How can I make an XamGrid be readonly while at the same time letting the user select a cells contents so they can copy and paste values?  I.e, grid is readonly, but they need to be able to select a cells value, copy and paste it into another app.

If I set 

<ig:XamGrid.EditingSettings>
  <ig:EditingSettings AllowEditing="Cell" IsMouseActionEditingEnabled="SingleClick" 
                      IsEnterKeyEditingEnabled="True" IsF2EditingEnabled="True" 
                      IsOnCellActiveEditingEnabled="False" />
</ig:XamGrid.EditingSettings>

I set these editing settings to make it so you can select on an individual cell.
I also set the columns IsReadOnly to true but once you do this, you can't select
the cell's value.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance.


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  • 2320
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    The only ways I could figure out how to lets the user select and copy the data in a cell from a readonly grid was to either template every column in XAML with readonly textbox's (which looked odd and would of required additional styling) or to just add a right-click context menu option called copy and use the grids ActiveCell property like such...

    try
    {
      if (grid.ActiveCell != null)
       Clipboard.SetText(grid.ActiveCell.Value.ToString());
    }
    catch(System.Security.SecurityException)
    {
      // user selected no, handle silently.
    }

    I was hoping there was a property I was missing or something that would allow
    the user to select a cell's contents when the grid columns are readonly. I
    even tried messing with a couple events hoping I could just abort an event
    but non of them worked appropriately for me.

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