Disable Row/Cell Highlighting

[Peter Codrington]

Hi All,

How can I get the grid not to highlight the row or cell when hovering with the mouse?

Thx

[Mike]

Hi Peter Codrington,

Currently this can be achieved only by modifying the corresponding Theme. Here is a way to do that:

1. Open the RadControls for WinForms example application which is installed on your machine and go to grid examples -> Theming.
2. Select the desired theme from the "Theme" drop down button.
3. Open the "Theme Builder" app from the link button on the bottom left.
4. Select the "GridRowElement" element in the treeview on the left
5. Remove or modify accordingly all states from the lower tabs that involve the "IsMouseOver" condition. Optionally you can also do that with the "GridHeaderRowElement" states, and so on.
6. Save the theme.
7. Load it your app using the ThemeManager component.

I've actually done that for you with the Telerik and Vista themes and I am attaching the files.

We know this isn't the most straight-forward approach to achieving such a simple and quite common scenario so we plan to add simpler API for the next version whenever possible.

 
Kind regards,
Mike
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[Support]

Hi,

Has there been any progress with this?  We want to be able to turn selection on/off dependent on the context.  Changing the Theme seems like an overcomplicated solution!

Thanks

Richard

[Jack]

Hi Education Direct,

Yes, you should just set the EnableHotTracking property to false. This will disable the highlighting when hovering a row in RadGridView. Please write us if you have any other questions.

Best wishes,
Jack
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[Mark]

How would I stop ROW Highlighting all together. I don't want a row to be highlighted at all, weather it was selected or not. 

 

Thanks

[Dess | Tech Support Engineer, Principal]

Hello Mark,

Thank you for writing.

In addition to setting the EnableHotTracking property to false, you can use the CellFormatting/RowFormatting events in order to disable the selected/current state indication to cells/rows:

private void radGridView1_RowFormatting(object sender, Telerik.WinControls.UI.RowFormattingEventArgs e)
{
    e.RowElement.DrawFill = false;
    e.RowElement.DrawBorder = false;
}

private void radGridView1_CellFormatting(object sender, Telerik.WinControls.UI.CellFormattingEventArgs e)
{
    e.CellElement.DrawFill = false;
    e.CellElement.BorderWidth = 1;
    e.CellElement.DrawBorder = true;
    e.CellElement.BorderBoxStyle = Telerik.WinControls.BorderBoxStyle.SingleBorder;
    e.CellElement.BorderColor = Color.FromArgb(209, 225, 245);
    e.CellElement.BorderGradientStyle = Telerik.WinControls.GradientStyles.Solid;
}

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

 

Regards,
Dess
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