[Solved] Copy single cell

[Mike]

Hi,

The default behaviour for the GridView is to copy then entire row to the clipboard.  But is it possible to copy just the highlighted cell?

Thanks.

[Vlad]

Hi,

Indeed this is possible if you enable cell selection. You can check this demo for more info.

Regards,
Vlad
the Telerik team

[Mike]

Thanks - it works by setting the SelectionUnit to single.  But now this breaks something else.  Up until now, I have been letting the user delete a whole row by highlighting it and hitting the Delete key.  Obviously, this doesn't work any more.  Is there any way to have whole row selection for deleting, and also single cell selection for copying?

[Milan]

Hi Mike,

There are several way to have the functionality. Here is one of them:

public MainPage()
{
    InitializeComponent();

    this.AddHandler(FrameworkElement.KeyDownEvent, new KeyEventHandler(playersGrid_KeyDown), true);
}

void playersGrid_KeyDown(object sender, KeyEventArgs e)
{
    if (e.Key == Key.Delete)
    {
        var selectedCell = this.playersGrid.SelectedCells.FirstOrDefault();

        if (selectedCell != null)
        {
            var deleteCommand = RadGridViewCommands.Delete as RoutedCommand;
            deleteCommand.Execute(selectedCell.Item, this.playersGrid);
        }
    }

Hope this helps.

Greetings,
Milan
the Telerik team

[Mike]

Thanks for the reply, but unfortunately this doesn't work.

If I set a breakpoint on the first line of the KeyDown handler then I see it being hit for all keys EXCEPT for when I press the Delete key (and, incidentally, the Insert key too).  I assume this is because the grid already handles those keys further up the chain.  Any other ideas?

[Milan]

Hello Mike,

When you subscribe to an event with AddHandler with its last argument equal to true, you will be able to handle any event event if it has been marked as handled.

Kind regards,
Milan
the Telerik team