Limit row height

[David]

Hello,
In the table I read from there are fields with values that are a few lines of string. After I load the table to the GridView, the GridView expands the rows' height so it could present all the data. I wanted to know how can I limit the rows' height in a way I'll see only the first row and the GridView won't expand. I've tried setting the "RowHeight" property of my GridView but it didn't do anything.

Thank you

[Veselin Vasilev]

Hello David,

Does your data (the long text) contain new lines?
If not you can set the TextWrapping="NoWrap" and TextTrimming="WordEllipsis" properties of the column.

If your data contains new lines, you might use a converter (IValueConverter) and convert the new lines into spaces for example and apply the above approach.

Let us know.

All the best,
Veselin Vasilev
the Telerik team

[David]

I do have several lines in the text ("/r,/n") in the data so I'll need to use IValueConverter.
Could you please tell me how do I set the column's IValueConverter using code. For example newGrid.Columns["desc"].????

Thank you

[Pavel Pavlov]

Hi David,

In code or in XAML , the converter should be set on the DataMemberBnding of the column, rather than the column itself.  Something like :
RadGridView.Colums["xxxxx"].DataMemberBinding.Converter = .....


Regards,
Pavel Pavlov
the Telerik team

[David]

That's what I origanally thought but when I try to use "RadGridView.Colums["xxxxx"].DataMemberBinding.Converter"  I get :
'Telerik.Windows.Controls.GridViewColumn' does not contain a definition for 'DataMemberBinding' and no extension method 'DataMemberBinding' accepting a first argument of type 'Telerik.Windows.Controls.GridViewColumn' could be found (are you missing a using directive or an assembly reference?)

using Telerik.Windows.Data;

using Telerik.Windows.Controls;

what am I missing?
I've got :

using Telerik.Windows.Data;

using Telerik.Windows.Controls;

using Telerik.Windows.Data;

using Telerik.Windows.Controls;

using Telerik.Windows.Data;

using Telerik.Windows.Controls;

using Telerik.Windows.Data;

using Telerik.Windows.Controls;

using Telerik.Windows.Data;

using Telerik.Windows.Controls;

using Telerik.Windows.Data;
using Telerik.Windows.Controls;
using Telerik.Windows.Controls.GridView;

Thank you for your time

using Telerik.Windows.Data;

using Telerik.Windows.Controls;

using Telerik.Windows.Data;

using Telerik.Windows.Controls;

[Veselin Vasilev]

Hi David,

Please first cast the column to GridViewDataColumn:

((GridViewDataColumn)RadGridView.Columns["xxxxx"]).DataMemberBinding.Converter = ...

Best wishes,
Veselin Vasilev
the Telerik team

[David]

Worked
Thank you so much

[Sam]

Is using a converter still the best way to do this? Seems like this should be a property you can set directly on the RadGridView.

[Sam]

Is using a converter still the best way to do this? Seems like making it a property on the RadGridView would be a much easier solution for this common problem.

[Dilyan Traykov]

Hello Sam,

An alternative approach to using the converter would be to set the following style as the column's CellStyle or use it as an implicit style.

<Style  TargetType="telerik:GridViewCell">
    <Style.Resources>
        <Style TargetType="TextBlock">
            <Setter Property="MaxHeight" Value="{Binding RowHeight, RelativeSource={RelativeSource AncestorType=telerik:GridViewDataControl}}" />
        </Style>
    </Style.Resources>
</Style>

If you wish, you may open a new feature request in our feedback portal regarding the introduction of a new property to control this. If the demand for it is high we will consider implementing it in future releases.

Regards,
Dilyan Traykov
Progress Telerik

[Sam]

Thanks for the feedback.

I also added a feature request.

https://feedback.telerik.com/Project/143/Feedback/List/Your%20Items

[Richard]

I agree that this isn't great, and will add this to the previous poster's feature request.

I had an out-of-the-box DataGrid with a RowHeight, which did exactly what I needed: it set a default Row Height to show as much as I wanted to see, but I could still resize the row if I wanted to see more data. I switched over to the Telerik RadGridView which has the same property with apparently no effect whatsoever - it always shows me all of the data.

[Dilyan Traykov]

Hello Richard,

Indeed, this behavior would be more intuitive. We will take this feedback into account once we start working on the implementation.

Regards,
Dilyan Traykov
Progress Telerik

[Miles]

Hi,

I just wondered if you could tell me if any progress has been made on this? 

I have exactly the same problem where rows are increasing in height if they have more content but I want to bind RowHeight to a slider value so that it always sets the RowHeight regardless of what data is loaded.

What causes us more problems is when we scroll right/left and the row changes it's height during the scroll.

 

Many thanks.
Miles Young

[Martin Ivanov]

Hello Miles,

This isn't planned for the next release. What I can suggest you so to follow the corresponding feedback item in the portal. This way you will get notified as soon as its status changes.

Regards,
Martin Ivanov
Progress Telerik