Hi all,I currently have an unbound column (int) in a WinGrid.I bind a ValueList to the ValueList property of this column that is created from an enumerator (value = int, text = string)Additionally I added a ValueBasedAppearance to the column where I provided the value from the enumerator to be of a certain color.
10 = red20 = blueetc.
Now if I fill the column without binding the ValueList in the first place the ValueBasedAppearance works fine.But with the ValueList bound to the column it doesn't.It works if I change the ValueBasedAppearance to the rextual representation of the ValueList though like this:
"invalid" = red"unknown" = blueetc.
Is there a way to use the integer based values for the ValueBasedAppearance instead of the textual one? This might be important due to the localization that occurs when creating the ValueList from the enumerator. I would have to create a lot of conditions or move the creation of the ValueBasedAppearance to the code.
Any help is kindly appreciated,have a great weekAndy
Thanks for the explanation Boris, it is very much appreciated.I already implemented your approach and it works like a charm :)
Hello Andy,
Pleasure here too :)
I believe that setting the datasource of the grid actually resets the layout. This must be the problem here.
I too prefer to use code instead of the designer but sometimes the designer way is faster so there are really benefits from these two approaches.
Please do not hesitate to ask if anything else comes up your way, I will be glad to help!
Hi Boris,thanks a lot for the quick response and for showing me the approach you used.I like it, so I'll stick to this in the future.
Just for curiosity, setting the ValueBasedAppearance in the grid-designer wasn't an option in this situation.Is the Appearance overwritten when rebinding a data source to the grid? In general I have no problem in setting such things in the code (honestly I prefer this approach over the designer based one),I am just curious why it didn't worked out in this case.
Thanks again Boris, it was a pleasure as usual :)
have a great weekAndy
I modified your sample a little bit and used approach that I hope you would like and will use in the future.
Please take a look.
Hi Boris,Unfortunately I can not open your sample because of version incompatibility (We are using VisualStudio 2010 Proferssional).
Nevertheless I attached a sample to illustrate the problem a little bit more.The grid is bound after the button is clicked. The "SomeValue" column is bound to the ValueList and contains the ValueBasedAppearance.As you can see the colors are not picked up based on the value from the ValueList.
Let me know if you need further information or if anything doesn't work.
cheersAndy