XtraGrid whole row is highlighted except the clicked cell

Question

When I select a row in the following GridView, the cell that my mouse is resting on (in other words the cell that I left click on) to select a row, is not highlighted while the rest of the row's cells are all highlighted.

I would appreciate your help.

GridView myView = (GridView)oGrid.MainView;
myView.OptionsSelection.MultiSelect = true;
myView.OptionsSelection.MultiSelectMode = GridMultiSelectMode.RowSelect;

if (myView.RowCount > 0)
{
    frmChangeMyStatus ff = new frmChangeMyStatus(ccfrms);
    DialogResult dr = ff.ShowDialog();

    if (dr == DialogResult.OK)
    {
        for (int i = 0; i < myView.SelectedRowsCount; i++)
        {
            row = myView.GetSelectedRows()[i];
               //...........
        }
    }
}

Sohn

Is this a DevExpress XtraGrid? – Wide

@Yuris Guts : I think so. Any ideas would be highly appreciated. – Sohn

Answer 1

If you want the focused cell to look like any other cell in the focused row, disable focused cell styling in view properties. You can do this in two different ways:

• At runtime:

  myView.OptionsSelection.EnableAppearanceFocusedCell = false;

• At design-time: Invoke XtraGrid designer, select Views :: (your view) :: OptionsSelection :: Set EnableAppearanceFocusedCell to False.

If you have access to XtraGrid designer, you can check out the Appearance section if you need more complicated styling rules.

Wide

Answer 2

In addition to what Yuriy Guts said above about the focus cell appearance for the view, if the cell that is selected is editable, it will still not highlight that cell.

So, if the cell doesn't need to be editable, you can set OptionsColumn.AllowEdit = false for that column. Otherwise, if the user selects a row by clicking on a cell, you have to live with that appearance so that the user can tell which cell they are currently editing.

Sutherland

Thank you but I can not find OptionsColumn.AllowEdit in DevXpress's GridView. – Sohn

Its a property of the column, not the view directly. – Sutherland

Thanks again, my problem was solved by using Yuriy's suggestion, and I did not have to set AllowEdit to false, maybe because at design tme it is set to false by default. But I highly appreciate your following up with my questipon and I did find the AllowEdit property. Thanks again. – Sohn