So I've got a hierarchically defined data structure and I've got the ColumnLayout setup to display that data structure. From a functionality perspective, it's perfect.
What I've been asked to do is to create some visual separation on the child table. In particular, popping a border and adding a margin onto the child table. I see properties for styling the header of the ChildBand, but I'm not seeing anything that allows me to treat the entire sub-table as a whole ... how would you go about this?
Hello Mike and thank you for your post!
As you have noticed the ChildBand does not have a visual representation that could be styled so that the whole band is highlighted. All child rows are displayed separately under the corresponding parent and the approach that gets closest to the look and feel that you described, and that I could currently think of, is setting a Style for the CellControl. Then by using a converter properties as background and opacity could be modified. You may want to have a look at the samples Krasimir has attached to the following thread and which illustrates this approach: http://es.infragistics.com/community/forums/t/74043.aspx.
Hello Mike,
I am just checking if you had a chance to look into this and if you would like any further assistance on the matter.
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After looking at the effort involved to effectively try to put a 5 pixel margin around the child band, it was determined that it wasn't worth it.
If there were a way to more easily manipulate the band as a whole, it would be a desirable feature.