Hi,

how can i apply alternate colors to the gridcontrol.

Can you be a little more specific on what color you want to change?

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Marc Laroche
Software Developer
Xceed Software Inc.

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I think the question refers to the ability to specify an Alternate Row color, similar to the .NET 2.0 DataGridView control. That control allows an Alternate Row color to be set, as well as a default row color. The row background color then alternates with each row.

In other words, Row 0 has a white background, Row 1 has a gray background, Row 2 has a white background, Row 3 has a gray background, etc...

I know that you can set cell styles, but I also have the same question as the orginal post -- can the alternating row colors be set without a lot of code to dynamically determine whether the row is odd or even?

We implemented something in version 1.1 to easily allow alternating "stuff" through triggers.

Version 1.1 will be soon available... (beginning of May)

Other than the trigger code, all that will be needed is a converter that convert an index into whatever value you want to trig on (allowing complex patterns).

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Marc Laroche
Software Developer
Xceed Software Inc.

I don’t suffer from insanity, I enjoy every minute of it. - Unknown

Hi,

 Please let us know if this feature has been released now. This is a critical functionality for us to finalize the xceed grid evaluation.

Regards,

Raja S L N

The "Alternating DataRow Styles" in the Styling Elements topic demonstrates how to do this.

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Technical Writer - Xceed Software

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Hmm interesting.

If you wanted to let the user turn this on and off with perhaps a checkbox.  How would you go about this?  Also if you wanted to let the user select the colors would you have to do it all programmatically?

 

 

While I am not sure there are nice 100% code-less approaches to scenarios such as the one you described, there are ways to preserve a nice separation between look and feature.

The DataRow implicit style defined can use DataTriggers that are bound to properties defined on the Page/Window/UserControl ( RelativeSource FindAncestor ). These properties could enable/disable the alternate row coloring as well as configure its color. In this case, the Enabling property as well as the Coloring properties could be considered as features of the Page/Window/UserControl while the way to select them, display them and affect them on the DataGrid remain on the look side of things ( XAML-only ).

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Marc Laroche
Software Developer
Xceed Software Inc.

I don’t suffer from insanity, I enjoy every minute of it. - Unknown