Excel-like edit textbox

[juergen]

Hi,

• i have to bind a Textbox to a current cell.value (Excel-like Editbox behavior, if you type into  a gridcell the typed char appears directly in the Textbox and vice-versa).

• UpdateSourceTrigger=PropertyChanged seems not to work with a gridcell.

• Text="{Binding ElementName=RadGridView1, Path=CurrentCell.Value} doesn't work ?

regards,
Juergen

[Veselin Vasilev]

Hi juergen,

Does your business object implements the INotifyPropertyChanged interface?
Please check our online demo about datasource change notifications.

Greetings,
Veselin Vasilev
the Telerik team

[juergen]

Hello Veselin,

1.) yes, my viewmodel implements INotifyPropertyChanged.

2.) your example is not  excactly the wanted behavior, because typed in chars appears on LostFocus of the cell/Textbox and
not as needed simultaneously like in Excel.

Sorry, I didn't found this similar behavior on your examples.

regards,
Juergen

[Veselin Vasilev]

Hi juergen,

I managed to implement what you want only from the textbox to the cell, e.g. typing in the textbox updates the underlying property immediately. To make it the other way around - you need to redefine the CellEditTemplate.

Find attached a sample project.

Sincerely yours,
Veselin Vasilev
the Telerik team

[juergen]

Hello Veselin,

thank you for your proposal.

Your example is using a preconfigured xaml-declaration of the datatemplate:

    <Window.Resources>
        <DataTemplate x:Name="SyncToBoxTemplate" x:Key="SyncToBoxTemplate">
            <TextBox Text="{Binding UpdateSourceTrigger=PropertyChanged, Mode=TwoWay}" />
        </DataTemplate>
    </Window.Resources>

But in my case i have to use a dynamic datacolumn creation:

                private void AddGridViewDataColumn(string uniqueName)
		{
			GridViewDataColumn column = new GridViewDataColumn();
			column.UniqueName = uniqueName;
			column.Header = uniqueName;     // LocalizationManager.GetString(uniqueName);
 
			Binding bind = new Binding(uniqueName);
			bind.Mode = BindingMode.TwoWay;
			bind.UpdateSourceTrigger = UpdateSourceTrigger.PropertyChanged;
 
			column.DataMemberBinding = bind;
			column.CellTemplate = (DataTemplate)FindResource("SyncToBoxTemplate");
 
			grdView.Columns.Add(column);
			Debug.WriteLine("Column: " + uniqueName + " added."); 
		}

The gridviewcolumn is created, only the Textboxoutline in the cell is drawn, but with no content.

Changing the celltemplate to textblock:

    <Window.Resources>
        <DataTemplate x:Name="SyncToBoxTemplate" x:Key="SyncToBoxTemplate">
            <!--<TextBox Text="{Binding Name, UpdateSourceTrigger=PropertyChanged, Mode=TwoWay}" />-->
            <TextBlock></TextBlock>
        </DataTemplate>
    </Window.Resources>

Content of MyViewModel is there (visible in editmode), also with desired effect, but not visible.
What I'm doing wrong?

regards,
Juergen

[Veselin Vasilev]

Hi juergen,

Do you set the Path of the Binding of the TextBox when a cell is selected as I do in my test project?


Regards,
Veselin Vasilev
the Telerik team

[juergen]

Hi Veselin,

this part is also active:

                private void grdView_SelectedCellsChanged(object sender, GridViewSelectedCellsChangedEventArgs e)
		{
			GridViewCellInfo ci = e.AddedCells[0];
			Binding b = new Binding((ci.Column as GridViewDataColumn).DataMemberBinding.Path.Path)
			{
				Mode = BindingMode.TwoWay,
				UpdateSourceTrigger = UpdateSourceTrigger.PropertyChanged,
				Source = ci.Item
			};
			txtContent.SetBinding(TextBox.TextProperty, b);
		}
There's a kind of switching bind, on creation of the column and when SelectCellsChanged-event is raised.
But I don't see how to resolve this.




Thank you for your help.

regards,
Juergen

[Veselin Vasilev]

Hello juergen,

I am not sure what went wrong in this case. Can you please prepare a sample project (or just modify the one I sent you) which demonstrates the problem? You have to attach it in a new support ticket as a zip archive.

Thanks

All the best,
Veselin Vasilev
the Telerik team

[juergen]

Ok, I'll do so.