When using NoDataSourceMessage, the message bounds are the entire grid, meaning if you set a background color or horizontally align the text it is applied to the grid as a whole; the entire grid turns the background color and the text can be stuck in the very middle of the grid.
NoRowsInDataSourceMessageText is placed in a single row, so out of the box TextVAlign has no effect and the background color only applies to the row, not the entire grid.
This behavior (treating the message as a row) seems disappointing. Is there an existing setting that would allow this message to respect the grid bounds rather than behave as a row, or am I required to hackishly set and maintain the row size to the available grid area?
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Hi,
No, there's no property for this. The reason that the EmptyMessageRow displays as a row instead of filling the entire grid is for child bands. If the EmptyMessageRow is in a child band, then it cannot fill the entire grid, since it would then prevent you from viewing other parent or child rows.
I can see how filling the entire grid would be useful on the root band, though especially if you are binding to a flat (single-band) data source.
It's a good idea and I'm going to forward this thread over to Infragistics Developer Support and ask them to enter a feature request for this.