GridViewImageColumn image resizing

[Steve]

Hi,

I am using the RadGridView to display two columns, one is a GridViewImageColumn and another is the GridViewTextBoxColumn.  They are bound to a custom object that is used to display the result of an operation.  Sometimes the message is longer than the column can fit so I have enabled wraptext and implement my own logic to autosize the row height (seeing that this feature was left out).

The trouble with this is that the icon I'm using to display a visual cue is being resized with the row.  It looks awful.  How do I prevent the icon from being resized?

Thanks

Steve

[Jordan]

Hi Steve,

You could try setting the ImageLayout property of the image cells to Center in the CellFormatting event handler like in this code:

void radGridView1_CellFormatting(object sender, CellFormattingEventArgs e)
        {
            if (e.CellElement.ColumnInfo is GridViewImageColumn &&
                string.IsNullOrEmpty(((GridViewImageColumn)e.CellElement.ColumnInfo).FieldName))
            {
                int index = (int)e.CellElement.RowInfo.Cells[0].Value - 1;
                if (index >= 0 && index < this.images.Count)
                {
                    e.CellElement.Image = this.images[index];
                    e.CellElement.ImageLayout = ImageLayout.Center;
                }
            }
        }

I hope this help. Don't hesitate to contact me if you have further questions.


Best wishes,
Jordan
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[Steve]

Thanks for the help Jordan.

But I'm sorry to say the example doesn't compile.  I perhaps should have mentioned that I'm running Q2 2007.  It seems the ImageLayout and FieldName properties do not exist.

Thanks

Steve

[Jordan]

Hi Steve,

Indeed the example uses features of RadGridView that were added after the Q2 2007 release of RadControls for WinForms. I suggest that you upgrade to the Q2 2008 version that was released yesterday.

Kind regards,
Jordan
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