Oh... also, there's a sample of creating an editor. It's called the RichTextEmbeddableEditor sample. It's installed along with the rest of the NetAdvantage samples, which I think comes with the SDK now. 

Thanks for your reply.

I looked into the DrawForeground method, which calls render method which inturn calls Render Helper method but nowhere they are getting the UltraGridCell object to display the value into the cell. As you mentioned, i tried to read the cell value, and it has the next subsequent cell value. (but its surprising that why it is not getting displayed though i hav the cell value of subsequent cells.) 

But to recreate the issue in RichTextEditor sample code provided by Infragistics, i just comment out the below metioned line in RenderingHelper method in EmbeddableRichTextBox.cs file,

"SendMessage(handleRefHwnd, EM_DISPLAYBAND, IntPtr.Zero, ref fr.rc);"

From this, it is clear that they are getting the "RichTextBoX" handle (handleRefHwnd) and they display the value in the cell by sending EM_DISPLAYBAND message (This message is to display the value of the richtextbox). CORRECT ME IF I'M WRONG

So, to display the value in the Masked Edit box in the UltraGridCell what should be the message i need to pass (as like EM_DISPLAYBAND for RichTextBox) or if not possible through SendMessage how can i display the value in the Text in the UltraGridCell (i.e, how can i render MaskedEditBox) ?

It will be really helpful if u provide some solution for this.

 Thanks..

Not sure on the masked edit box thing.  But in the draw foreground override you can render your own graphics using the Graphics object and the drawstring method.

eg.

 EmbeddableUIElement embeddableElement = embeddableUIElement;

SolidBrush sbrush = new SolidBrush(Color.Black);

format.Alignment = StringAlignment.Near;

Hi,

Thanks very much for the reply. Its working perfectly alright. But i need to change the font color at runtime. Since i'm using drawstring, i wont be able to do that at cell level (like cell.Appearance.Forecolor = Color.White) or row level.

 Say for example, I have three columns "COL1", "COL2", "COL3" and three rows in the UltrawinGrid. I have my custom maked edit box control at "COL1" and the values forecolor will be Color.Black because i'm using the below mentioned line

Now, I have applied columnstyle property of "COL2" as ColumnStyle.Edit. So, whenever i click on "COL2" i need to change the fore color of "COL1" to white because i'm selecting the entire row (i.e, it should resembles like CellClickAction.Cellselect). But since i'm using DrawString, i wont be able to do that at cell level or row level. That is reason why i asked for rendering the masked edit box? or else it will be really helpful if anyother possible solution for this?

Thanks

 You might want to use the ResolveAppearance method on the cell so that you can get the properties that you need.  If you only want the ForeColor, you could do:

 AppearancePropFlags requestedProps = AppearancePropFlags.ForeColor;
AppearanceData appearance = new AppearanceData();
cell.ResolveAppearance(ref appearance, requestedProps);
SolidBrush sbrush = new SolidBrush(appearance.ForeColor != Color.Empty ? appearance.ForeColor : Color.Black);

-Matt

Hi,

Thanks so much its working fine ..