Hi,

Thanks for link. 

So, the point is that the Selected.Columns property does not contain any cells, while Selected.Cells and Selected.Rows properties reference the cells.

I've just test the proposed solution.

Ok it works but the double loop (for each row, for each cell in row) takes a very long time (a non-acceptable time actually).

So, do you know the most efficient way to get all the cells of columns ? 

Hi,

How many rows do you have?

There's no way to avoid looping through the grid rows - which is probably why selecting a column does not select all of the cells in the first place. :)

But Petar's code is not very efficient. It's not necessary to loop through every column, since you have a Selected.Columns collection which contains only the columns you need. And calling Contains on the collection every time will end up looping through the columns again, so that's very inefficient.Also, setting the Selected property on each cell individually is a bad idea - it's much better to add them all at once using AddRange.

Here's how I would do it:

        private void ultraGrid1_BeforeSelectChange(object sender, BeforeSelectChangeEventArgs e)
        {
            UltraGrid grid = (UltraGrid)sender;

            if (e.NewSelections.Columns.Count > 0)
            {
                List<UltraGridCell> selectedCells = new List<UltraGridCell>();
                UltraGridRow[] rows = grid.Rows.GetFilteredInNonGroupByRows();
                foreach (UltraGridRow row in rows)
                {
                    foreach (Infragistics.Win.UltraWinGrid.ColumnHeader columnHeader in e.NewSelections.Columns)
                    {                        
                        selectedCells.Add(row.Cells[columnHeader.Column]);                        
                    }
                }

                if (selectedCells.Count > 0)
                {
                    e.Cancel = true;                    
                    grid.Selected.Cells.Clear();
                    grid.Selected.Cells.AddRange(selectedCells.ToArray());                    
                }
            }
        }

I tested this with 10,000 rows and there was a small delay after clicking the mouse on the column header, but I don't see any way to make it any faster than that. And 10,000 rows is probably more than any human user could reasonably deal with, anyway.

Hi,

A clever solution. So you are basically handling the copy yourself before the grid can do it. Makes sense.

You probably don't have to turn off AllowMultiCellOperation, but instead just set e.Handled to true so that the grid knows you already handled the keystroke and that it should not handle it.

I'm not thrilled about hiding and then showing columns like you are doing. It might cause a flicker and it has a small potential to affect the grid's layout in some way. You could avoid a flicker using BeginUpdate/EndUpdate around your code and I cannot think of any layout problems at the moment, but it's something to watch out for.

Hi Mike

I found a way to avoid looping through the rows. It's a bit tricky but now I only loop through the columns, what is much, much faster.

The idea is to hide the unselected columns, then to copy all rows and finally to re-show the unselected columns.

Here's the code:

Dim columnCopyInProgress As Boolean = False

Dim formerAllowMultiCellOperations As AllowMultiCellOperation = AllowMultiCellOperation.Default

 

Private Sub UltraGrid5_KeyDown(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.Windows.Forms.KeyEventArgs) Handles UltraGrid5.KeyDown

 

 

        'crtl+c' event

        If e.KeyCode = Keys.C And e.Control = True Then

 

            Dim ultragrid As UltraGrid = CType(sender, UltraGrid)

            Dim currentBand = ultragrid.DisplayLayout.Bands(0)

 

 

            If ultragrid.Selected.Columns.Count > 0 Then

                'stop refresh

                ultragrid.BeginUpdate()

 

                'get the list of selected columns

                Dim selectedColumnHeaders As New List(Of ColumnHeader)

                Dim selectedColumns As New List(Of UltraGridColumn)

                For Each columnHeader As ColumnHeader In ultragrid.Selected.Columns

                    selectedColumnHeaders.Add(columnHeader)

                    selectedColumns.Add(columnHeader.Column)

                Next

 

                'will contain the list of columns displayed and not selected

                Dim formerDisplayedColumns As New List(Of UltraGridColumn)

 

                'hide the unselected columns

                For Each column As UltraGridColumn In currentBand.Columns

                    If column.Hidden = False And Not selectedColumns.Contains(column) Then

                        formerDisplayedColumns.Add(column)

                        column.Hidden = True

                    End If

                Next

 

                'select all cells of remaining columns

                ultragrid.Selected.Rows.Clear()

                ultragrid.Selected.Rows.AddRange(ultragrid.Rows.GetFilteredInNonGroupByRows)

 

                'Copy the cell to the clipboard

                Me.UltraGrid5.PerformAction(UltraGridAction.Copy)

 

                'reset display

                ultragrid.Selected.Rows.Clear()

                For Each column As UltraGridColumn In formerDisplayedColumns 'currentBand.Columns 'formerDisplayedColumns

                    column.Hidden = False

                Next

                ultragrid.Selected.Columns.AddRange(selectedColumnHeaders.ToArray)

                ultragrid.EndUpdate()

 

                'prevent copy operation to be automatically performed 

                columnCopyInProgress = True

                formerAllowMultiCellOperations = ultragrid.DisplayLayout.Override.AllowMultiCellOperations

                ultragrid.DisplayLayout.Override.AllowMultiCellOperations = AllowMultiCellOperation.None

 

            End If

        End If

 

    End Sub

 

    Private Sub UltraGrid5_KeyUp(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.Windows.Forms.KeyEventArgs) Handles UltraGrid5.KeyUp

        If columnCopyInProgress Then

            'Re-allow copy operations

            columnCopyInProgress = False

            Dim ultragrid As UltraGrid = CType(sender, UltraGrid)

            ultragrid.DisplayLayout.Override.AllowMultiCellOperations = formerAllowMultiCellOperations

        End If

    End Sub

The only difficulty is that I had to temporarily set the AllowMultiCellOperations property to None to prevent the grid to automatically manage the event. In this case, I reset the property on KeyUp event.

Do you see any problems with this solution ? May be you can even use it to implement it in a safer way in a next version of the ultragrid. :)