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Jake
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Hiding the value of a cell
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Hi,

I have a column that has 4 different status values.  Based on the value of each cell, I want to display a certain image.  However, I don't want the text value to be displayed.  I thought of just having two columns to achieve this, but I want to have a value in the image column to allow for proper sorting.  Is there anyway that I can retain a cell's value, but display an image while hiding the text?

 Thanks,

Jake

  • 2334
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    Actually, if you want to display the image in the bound cell and retain the value you could set the Cell.Appearance.Image to the appropriate image.  Then set the CellAppearance.ForegroundAlpha = Transparent.  This will cause the text to be transparent, effectively only showing the image while retaining the value for sorting purposes.

     

  • 2334
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    I would recommend adding an unbound column of type Image and setting the appropriate image in the InitializeRow event of the grid.  You can solve the sorting problem by attaching a custom ISortComparer to the image column that sorts based on your logic.