Copy grid in UI for WinForms PivotGrid and PivotFieldList

Artemis

5 posts

Member since:
Jul 2015

Posted 10 Oct 2016 Link to this post

Hi.

I am using the "Copy" command from the right-click menu and it works OK in copying selected cells to the clipboard and then pasting into another program.

However, I want to copy the entire grid, including column and row headers.

The headers cannot be selected.

Is there a way to copy the entire grid to clipboard?

Dess | Tech Support Engineer, Sr.

Admin

3579 posts

Posted 12 Oct 2016 Link to this post

Hello Artemis,

Thank you for writing.

Header cells are not supposed to be selected and hence, they are not supposed to be copied. However, you can override the PivotGridContextMenu.OnCopyMenuItemClick method, get the clipboard data and customize it according to your requirement and then set the new data.

this.radPivotGrid1.PivotGridElement.ContextMenu = new CustomPivotGridContextMenu(this.radPivotGrid1.PivotGridElement);

public class CustomPivotGridContextMenu : PivotGridContextMenu

{

public CustomPivotGridContextMenu(RadPivotGridElement pivotGridElement) : base(pivotGridElement)

{

}

protected override void OnCopyMenuItemClick(object sender, EventArgs e)

{

base.OnCopyMenuItemClick(sender, e);

// the selection data is copied to Clipboard. You can get it and customize it

}

The following threads are quite useful how to modify the clipboard data:
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/637ys738(v=vs.110).aspx
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.windows.forms.clipboard(v=vs.110).aspx

I hope this information helps. Should you have further questions I would be glad to help.

Regards,
Dess
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Deepak

27 posts

Member since:
May 2016

Posted 25 May 2017 in reply to Dess | Tech Support Engineer, Sr. Link to this post

Hello,

I used GetDataObject to see data inside clipboard but its not working. Also if i will get data how i will column headers and Row headers to it.

IDataObject iData = Clipboard.GetDataObject();

Regards,

Deepak

27 posts

Member since:
May 2016

Posted 26 May 2017 in reply to Deepak Link to this post

Hello,

Any solution for my above queries ?

Regards,

Deepak

Dess | Tech Support Engineer, Sr.

Admin

3579 posts

Posted 26 May 2017 Link to this post

Hello Deepak,

Thank you for writing.

In order to get the Clipboard text, feel free to use the Clipboard.GetText method. Additional information is available in the following MSDN thread: https://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/windows/en-US/8c677273-77bf-4423-a799-528e3aed837e/c-paste-from-clipboard?forum=winforms

I hope this information helps. Should you have further questions I would be glad to help.

Regards,
Dess
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Amit

4 posts

Member since:
Mar 2018

Posted 15 Oct 2019 in reply to Dess | Tech Support Engineer, Sr. Link to this post

Dear Dess,

var txtmsg2 = Clipboard.GetText();

Only get the value of cell we are selected to copy. We want row and column header name with cell value.

How can we get that?

Dess | Tech Support Engineer, Sr.

Admin

3579 posts

Posted 17 Oct 2019 Link to this post

Hello, Amit,

The Clipboard.GetText method returns only the text that is stored in the global Clipboard object. The default copy behavior internally uses the Clipboard.SetDataObject method passing a newly created DataObject.

If you want to extract the row/column of the copied cells, note that the CellFormatting event is fired for a special type of cell element (FormatCellElement). Thus, you can extract its row/column:

        private void radPivotGrid1_CellFormatting(object sender, PivotCellEventArgs e)
        {
            if (e.CellElement.GetType().ToString() == "Telerik.WinControls.UI.FormatCellElement")
            {
                Console.WriteLine(e.CellElement.Row);
                Console.WriteLine(e.CellElement.Column);
            }
        }

I hope this information helps.

Regards,
Dess | Tech Support Engineer, Sr.
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