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Carisch
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Carisch asked on 30 Mar 2011, 11:13 PM
This seems like such a simple task, I am really stumped.  Oh well, I want a column to be check boxes in my grid view.  I'm playing around with the radGridView1_CreateCell event with this code.

if (e.Row is GridDataRowElement && e.Column is GridViewDataColumn && ((GridViewDataColumn)e.Column).Name == "MyField")
{
    e.CellType = typeof(RadTextBoxEditor);
}

This gives me an error of:

{"Constructor on type 'Telerik.WinControls.UI.RadTextBoxEditor' not found."}


Any help would be appreciated.  My end goal would be to have a column full of checked and unchecked boxes.
When a value changes(the user clicks), I'm going to update my database.

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Emanuel Varga
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answered on 31 Mar 2011, 08:33 AM
Hello Carish,

I don't really understand why if you want checkboxes are you giving in the CellType property the type of an editor and more than this a type of a TextBox Editor.

I would suggest a different approach, either creating adding a CheckBoxColumn to the Columns collection, or just add a bool property to the databound object.

If you are looking for something else, could you please provide a small sample (you cannot attach projects here but you can just copy paste the code in a code block) from which i would be able to understand what you are trying to achieve.

Hope this helps, if you have any other questions or comments, please let me know,

Best Regards,
Emanuel Varga

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Richard Slade
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answered on 31 Mar 2011, 09:11 AM
Hello,

In addition to Emanuel's comments, you can also find out more about the GridViewCheckBoxColumn at this help topic.

Hope you find this of help
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Carisch
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answered on 31 Mar 2011, 01:33 PM
Richard, thanks for your comment.  That article would help if I wanted to create a new column, and I'm doing that in other areas, but I want a column which is bound to a datasource, and this datasource has a bool value.  Standard binding just shows "True" or "False".  I want a checkbox.

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answered on 31 Mar 2011, 01:35 PM
Sorry, terrible job getting my code out of my project and onto this page.  It was supposed to be:
private void radGridView1_CreateCell(object sender, GridViewCreateCellEventArgs e)
{
    if (e.Row is GridDataRowElement && e.Column is GridViewDataColumn && ((GridViewDataColumn)e.Column).Name == "MyField")
    {
        e.CellType = typeof(CustomGridCheckBoxCellElement);
    }
}

This field "MyField" is already of type bool.   I would have thought that by default the gridview would see a bool, and convert it into a checkbox column.

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Carisch
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answered on 31 Mar 2011, 01:39 PM
I should add that I tried:

e.CellType = typeof(RadCheckBoxEditorElement);

and 

e.CellType = typeof(RadCheckBoxEditor);

and 

e.CellType = typeof(GridCheckBoxCellElement);

So I tried creating my own custom cell element object here

public class CustomGridCheckBoxCellElement : GridDataCellElement
{
    RadCheckBoxElement check;
    public CustomGridCheckBoxCellElement(GridViewDataColumn column, GridRowElement row)
        : base(column, row)
    {
    }
    protected override void InitializeFields()
    {
        base.InitializeFields();
        check = new RadCheckBoxElement();
        this.Children.Add(check);
    }
    protected override void SetContentCore(object value)
    {
        if (value != null && value != DBNull.Value && value.ToString().StartsWith("http"))
        {
            check.Checked = Convert.ToBoolean(value);
        }
        else
        {
            check.Checked = false;
        }
    }
}


This worked to display the value as a checkbox, but as soon as you try to edit it, it changes back to text.  Very odd behavior.

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Carisch
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answered on 31 Mar 2011, 01:52 PM
Richard, actually I overlooked a very basic step in creating columns.  I always create my list of columns like this:
radGridView1.Columns.Add("MyField", "Field Header Text", "MyField");

But when I want a column other than the default text box cell, you can use the article you linked and have this

GridViewCheckBoxColumn check = new GridViewCheckBoxColumn();
check.FieldName = "MyField";
check.Name = "MyField";
check.HeaderText = "My Field ?";
radGridView1.Columns.Add(myField);

This is exactly what I wanted, and I knew it was simple.   Thank you very much.
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answered on 31 Mar 2011, 02:04 PM
Hello,

Glad that helped. If you have AutoGenerateColumns = true, then your bool column would just come out as a checkbox. As you are defining the columns, as you have mentioned, you specifically need to define the column type.

If you have any other questions, just let me know
Richard
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