Enable/disable cell RadComboBox

[Tom]

Hi, I have a RadGridView and one of the columns has a CellTemplate with a TextBlock and a CellEditTemplate with a RadComboBox.  The RadGridView ItemSource is a collection of business objects.  I'd like it so that the RadComboBox is only accessible based on a property on the business object (in other words you can only choose a different item in the list if the business object is editable).  It seems that you can't use a binding in the GridViewDataColumn IsReadOnly property (it only accepts True/False), so I was wondering what the best way to do this would be?

Here's my code:

<gridview:RadGridView AutoGenerateColumns="False"
        ShowGroupPanel="False" Margin="4" RowIndicatorVisibility="Collapsed" Grid.Column="0"
        Grid.Row="1" Background="White" ItemsSource="{Binding BusinessObjects}">
    <gridview:RadGridView.Columns>
        <gridview:GridViewDataColumn Width="auto" Header="Columns" IsFilterable="False"
                IsSortable="False" IsReadOnly="True" >
            <gridview:GridViewDataColumn.CellTemplate>
                <DataTemplate>
                    <TextBlock Text="{Binding SelectedOne.Label}" />
                </DataTemplate>
            </gridview:GridViewDataColumn.CellTemplate>
            <gridview:GridViewDataColumn.CellEditTemplate>
                <DataTemplate>
                    <input:RadComboBox IsReadOnly="{Binding IsReadOnly}" IsEditable="{Binding IsEditable}" IsTextSearchEnabled="False"
                            OpenDropDownOnFocus="True" KeyDown="RadComboBox_KeyDown"
                            MinWidth="100"
                            ItemsSource="{Binding Source={StaticResource ViewModel}, Path=SearchList}"
                            DisplayMemberPath="Label"
                            Text="{Binding Source={StaticResource ViewModel}, Path=SearchText, Mode=TwoWay}"
                            SelectedItem="{Binding SelectedOne}"
                            attachedcommands:TelerikSelectorSelectionChanged.Command="{Binding Source={StaticResource ViewModel}, Path=SelectionChangedCommand}"
                            attachedcommands:TelerikSelectorSelectionChanged.CommandParameter="{Binding RelativeSource={RelativeSource Self}, Path=SelectedValue}" />
                </DataTemplate>
            </gridview:GridViewDataColumn.CellEditTemplate>
        </gridview:GridViewDataColumn>
    </gridview:RadGridView.Columns>
</gridview:RadGridView>

Thanks,
Tom

[Vlad]

Hello Tom,

If this is Silverlight 4 you can bind the column IsReadOnly as well. Alternatively you can use CellEditTemplateSelector column property to provide different CellEditTemplate based on your condition.

Sincerely yours,
Vlad
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[Tom]

Thanks for your response Vlad.  I saw your blog post here: http://blogs.telerik.com/blogs/posts/10-04-01/conditional_styles_and_templates_with_radgridview_for_silverlight_and_wpf.aspx

However what I need to do is include references to my viewmodel (e.g. through StaticResource) in the fragment of Xaml that I'm supplying as the CellEditTemplate, for example the ItemSource on the RadComboBox in the template as in the code above.  Is this even possible?  I've read a few articles on MSDN and it looks like the XamlReader.Load method creates a tree in a separate namescope so I'm not sure how these references are going to work..?

For example if I use the following:

template = (DataTemplate)XamlReader.Load(@"
    <DataTemplate
        xmlns=""http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation""
        xmlns:input=""clr-namespace:Telerik.Windows.Controls;assembly=Telerik.Windows.Controls.Input""
        xmlns:attachedcommands=""clr-namespace:...Presentation.Modules.Common.Commands;assembly=...Presentation.Modules.Common"">
    <input:RadComboBox IsEditable=""True""
                IsTextSearchEnabled=""False"" OpenDropDownOnFocus=""True""
                MinWidth=""100""
                ItemsSource=""{Binding Source={StaticResource ViewModel}, Path=ParentMappingSearchList}""
                DisplayMemberPath=""Label""
                Text=""{Binding Source={StaticResource ViewModel}, Path=ParentMappingSearchText, Mode=TwoWay}""
                SelectedItem=""{Binding ParentMapping}""
                attachedcommands:TelerikSelectorSelectionChanged.Command=""{Binding Source={StaticResource ViewModel}, Path=ParentMappingSelectionChangedCommand}""
                attachedcommands:TelerikSelectorSelectionChanged.CommandParameter=""{Binding RelativeSource={RelativeSource Self}, Path=SelectedValue}""/>
    </DataTemplate>
");

I get BindingExpression path error: 'ParentMappingSearchList' property not found on [the object that represents the row in the grid]..

Thanks,
Tom

[Vlad]

Hi Tom,

You can declare desired template in XAML instead (for example in Resources) XamlReader.Load().

Greetings,
Vlad
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[Tom]

Thanks Vlad, got this working with a DataTemplate defined in the Resources of my main XAML.  Wasn't sure how to get a reference to this resource from inside the SelectTemplate method of the MappingParentTemplateSelector class though.. Ended up setting a static reference to the view object in the view constructor..

public partial class MyView // XAML code behind

{

public MyView()

{

InitializeComponent();

View = this;

}

public static MyView View;

}

public class MappingParentTemplateSelector : DataTemplateSelector

{

public override DataTemplate SelectTemplate(object item, DependencyObject container)

{

var mapping = (Mapping)item;

if (mapping.IsMappingEditable)

{

return (DataTemplate)(MyView.View.Resources["MappingParentEditTemplate"]);

}

return (DataTemplate)(MyView.View.Resources["MappingParentTemplate"]);

}

}

Thanks,
Tom