GridView Filter Row Font Size

[Lu Pazmino]

Hello,

I have a winform GridView that I'm having a hard time changing the font size. Here is my code.

        private void radGridView1_ViewCellFormatting(object sender, Telerik.WinControls.UI.CellFormattingEventArgs e)
        {
            Font font = new Font("Arial", 20f);
            if (e.CellElement is Telerik.WinControls.UI.GridFilterCellElement)
            {
                ((Telerik.WinControls.UI.GridViewFilteringRowInfo)e.CellElement.RowInfo).Height = 40;               
                e.CellElement.DrawFill = true;
                e.CellElement.NumberOfColors = 1;
                e.CellElement.BackColor = Color.Beige;
                e.CellElement.Font = font;
            }

I have also attached a screen-shot of my issue. Basically this changes the font size of the filter row, when the user is not in a cell typing something. But when I try to filter a column and set focus to that specific filter cell, i get a textbox in front of the "big" text with the normal 8.25 point font. What am I doing wrong?

Thanks,
Lu

[Lu Pazmino]

Isn't  there anyone that can help with this??????

[Martin Vasilev]

Hello Lu Pazmino,

Thank you for the question.

When you enter the filter cell element you actually initialize the respective editor which comes with its own font settings. That is why you have experience described behavior. You can change the editors' font in the CellBeginEdit event. For performance optimizations, I recommend you to initialize the new font outside the ViewCellFormatting event. Please, consider the following code:

Font filterRowFont = new Font("Arial", 20f);

void radGridView1_CellBeginEdit(object sender, GridViewCellCancelEventArgs e)
{
    if (this.radGridView1.CurrentRow is GridViewFilteringRowInfo)
    {
        BaseGridEditor editor = this.radGridView1.ActiveEditor as BaseGridEditor;
        if (editor == null) return;
        Type elementType = editor.EditorElement.GetType();

        switch (elementType.Name)
        {
            case "RadTextBoxEditorElement":
                ((RadTextBoxEditorElement)editor.EditorElement).Font = this.filterRowFont;
                break;

            case "RadMaskedEditBoxItem":
                ((RadMaskedEditBoxItem)editor.EditorElement).Font = this.filterRowFont;
                break;

            case "GridSpinEditorElement":
                ((GridSpinEditorElement)editor.EditorElement).TextBoxItem.Font = this.filterRowFont;
                break;

            case "RadComboBoxEditorElement":
                ((RadComboBoxEditorElement)editor.EditorElement).TextBoxElement.TextBoxItem.Font = this.filterRowFont;
                break;

            case "RadDateTimeEditorElement":
                ((RadDateTimeEditorElement)editor.EditorElement).TextBoxElement.TextBoxItem.Font = this.filterRowFont;
                break;
        }
    }
}

void radGridView1_ViewCellFormatting(object sender, CellFormattingEventArgs e)
{
    //Font font = new Font("Arial", 20f);
    if (e.CellElement is Telerik.WinControls.UI.GridFilterCellElement)
    {
        ((Telerik.WinControls.UI.GridViewFilteringRowInfo)e.CellElement.RowInfo).Height = 40;
        e.CellElement.DrawFill = true;
        e.CellElement.NumberOfColors = 1;
        e.CellElement.BackColor = Color.Beige;
        e.CellElement.Font = this.filterRowFont; //font;
    }
}

Do not hesitate to contact me again if you have other questions.

Kind regards,
Martin Vasilev
the Telerik team

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[Lu Pazmino]

Thanks so much Martin. That was exactly what I needed. I really appreciate your help.