Thanks for you reply, Mike.

I want to assign office 2007 style glyphs to the checkbox. Also I don't want to apply this feature to the application level. Is it possible only apply this glyph to the column fo grid or the grid level. I can't find a related property on the column or the grid.

Thanks,

Kun

Hi Kun,

There's no way to do this on the Column level.

And the only way to do this on the grid level would be to use AppStylist. Are you already loading an Application Style Library (isl) file into your application?

Now that you point this out, it seems like something of an oversight. We should probably expose a property by which you can set the Glyphs for header checkboxes on the grid.

Unfortunately, the version you are using is retired, so that wouldn't help you unless you wanted to upgrade.

Hi,

I was able to do this using a CreationFilter to change the UIElements for the Checkindicators to a new derived UIElement. What I did is I created a class that derives from CheckIndicatorUIElement and I overrode BeforeDrawForeground to change the current GlyphInfo just while the drawing operation is taking place for the particular element.

Then I use a CreationFilter to replace the usual CheckIndicatorUIElements in the grid column headers with my derived element.

    public class Office2007CheckIndicatorCreationFilter : IUIElementCreationFilter
    {
        #region IUIElementCreationFilter Members

        void IUIElementCreationFilter.AfterCreateChildElements(UIElement parent)
        {
            
        }

        bool IUIElementCreationFilter.BeforeCreateChildElements(UIElement parent)
        {
            HeaderCheckBoxUIElement headerCheckBoxUIElement = parent as HeaderCheckBoxUIElement;
            if (headerCheckBoxUIElement != null)
            {
                Office2007CheckIndicatorUIElement checkIndicatorUIElement = null;
                if (parent.ChildElements.Count > 0)
                {
                    checkIndicatorUIElement = parent.ChildElements[0] as Office2007CheckIndicatorUIElement;
                    parent.ChildElements.Clear();
                }

                if (checkIndicatorUIElement == null)
                {
                    checkIndicatorUIElement = new Office2007CheckIndicatorUIElement(headerCheckBoxUIElement);
                }

                checkIndicatorUIElement.Rect = parent.RectInsideBorders;
                parent.ChildElements.Add(checkIndicatorUIElement);
                
                return true;
            }

            // do nothing
            return false;
        }

        #endregion
    }

    public class Office2007CheckIndicatorUIElement : CheckIndicatorUIElement
    {
        public Office2007CheckIndicatorUIElement(CheckBoxUIElement parent)
            : base(parent, parent)
        {

        }
        
        protected override void DrawForeground(ref UIElementDrawParams drawParams)
        {
            GlyphInfoBase originalGlyphInfoBase = UIElementDrawParams.CheckBoxGlyphInfo;
            UIElementDrawParams.CheckBoxGlyphInfo = UIElementDrawParams.Office2007CheckBoxGlyphInfo;

            try
            {
                base.DrawForeground(ref drawParams);
            }
            finally
            {
                UIElementDrawParams.CheckBoxGlyphInfo = originalGlyphInfoBase;
            }
        }

        protected override bool DrawTheme(ref UIElementDrawParams drawParams)
        {
            return false;
        }
    }

All that's left to do is set the CreationFilter on the grid.You could do this in the Form_Load.

this.ultraGrid1.CreationFilter = new Office2007CheckIndicatorCreationFilter();

It is great! Thanks for your reply. Really appreciate your help on it.