Column Resize

[Rafael]

Hi,


I have had a good look at the forums and I can't find a way of doing the following:
 - When a user resizes a column so that its value does no longer fit its width, I want it to hide the LEFT side of its value.
  I.E. If the value is "1234567890123467", once the value is too long to show, i want it to hide the characters on the LEFT; the value could become "...7890123467"

I thought RIGHTTOLEFT = True would do it, but it does not.

Thanks in advance!

Rafael  

[George]

Hi Rafael,

Thank you for contacting us.

You can implement you own, custom logic which will measure the text and according to the size of the cell will show or not dots in front of the text. This can happen in the ViewCellFormatting event of RadGridView:

private Dictionary<int, string> originalTextCache = new Dictionary<int, string>();
void Grid_ViewCellFormatting(object sender, CellFormattingEventArgs e)
{
    if (e.CellElement is GridHeaderCellElement && e.ColumnIndex == 1)
    {
        if (!this.originalTextCache.ContainsKey(e.ColumnIndex))
        {
            this.originalTextCache[e.ColumnIndex] = e.Column.HeaderText;
        }

        e.Column.HeaderText = this.originalTextCache[e.ColumnIndex];
        e.CellElement.AutoEllipsis = false;
        Size elementSize = e.CellElement.Size;
        Size textSize = TextRenderer.MeasureText(e.Column.HeaderText, e.CellElement.Font);
        if (elementSize.Width == 0)
        {
            elementSize = new Size(e.Column.Width, textSize.Height);
        }

        if (elementSize.Width > 0 && elementSize.Width <= textSize.Width)
        {
            StringBuilder text = new StringBuilder(e.Column.HeaderText);
            do
            {
                if (text.Length == 0)
                {
                    break;
                }

                text = text.Remove(0, 1);
            }
            while ((textSize = TextRenderer.MeasureText(text.ToString(), e.CellElement.Font)).Width > elementSize.Width);

            if (text.Length > 0)
            {
                text = text.Remove(0, 1);
            }

            string newCellText = string.Format("{0}{1}", "..", text.ToString());
            e.Column.HeaderText = newCellText;
        }
    }
}

I hope this information is useful.

Regards,
George
Telerik

 

 

[Rafael]

Thanks, I will have a look at this, and get back to you on how I get on.

[George]

Hello Rafael,

Let me know, should you have further questions.

Regards,
George
Telerik