Adding custom control to grid

[Tooraj]

Hi all,
I have a custom calendar which is derived from GridViewDateColumn. I don't know in whic method I must determine type of the Editor.
class MyCalendar:GridViewDateColumn 
{
public override CreateEditor()
{
  Create Editor as MyCalendar;
}
}
Please just write the code which works. I've seen the "Customizing Editors" part of GridView help but it's sample explains EditorRequired event while I  want to add a new column by clicking a button with the type MyCalendar.
Thank you.

[Emanuel Varga]

Hello Tooraj,

I have a question, i was looking at your problem FADateTimePicker, and was wondering, is it something different in that datetimepicker other than it having a different culture?


Best Regards,
Emanuel Varga

[Tooraj]

Hi Emanuel,
the calendar shows date for US. I set it to persian using CultureInfo to "fa-IR" before ApplicationRun().
Do you have the Farsi Library? I think that the problem is that if we want to add a column to RadGrid  it must return RadObject type while FADatePicker returns its own type, am I right?
I'm waiting for your answer and I'm ready to reply any question you need to answer.
Thank you Emanuel, My project completion highly depends on adding this component to my RadGrid.

[Svett]

Hi Tooraj,

If you want to replace the default editor of the column, you need to override the GetDefaultEditorType method of GridViewDataColumn inheritor (in your case this is the GridViewDateTimeColumn):

public class GridViewCalendarColumn : GridViewDateTimeColumn
{
    public override Type GetDefaultEditorType()
    {
        // return the type of your editor here
        return base.GetDefaultEditorType();
    }
}

All the best,
Svett
the Telerik team

[Emanuel Varga]

Hello Svett,

He want's to use another control for editing the grid, a custom control named FADateTimePicker, and I've provided a solution for this in this thread but he failed to say if that is what he wanted...

Best Regards,
Emanuel Varga

[Tooraj]

Hi Emanuel,
I tried this code:

public class MyFADatePickerCol: GridViewDateTimeColumn

{

    public override Type GetDefaultEditorType()

    {

        // return the type of your editor here

                     FADatePicker f=new FADatePciker;
                        returtn f.GetType();

    }
public MyFADatePickerCol():base("Col1")
{
}


}
MyFADatePickerCol mycol=new MyFADatePickerCol();
radGridView1.Columns.Add(mycol);
But FADatePicker does not appear in the Grid.
Please help me.


[Emanuel Varga]

Hello Tooraj,

Can we please have this conversation on a single thread? it's getting pretty hard to follow in 10 different threads....

Best Regards,
Emanuel Varga

[Tooraj]

Sorry, of course but please put thread's link and I will go to that thread.
In addition I want to have a column of textbox type which shows an ellispsis that by clicking on it a fom appears.