[Solved] How to colorize cell

[Konrad Sikorski]

Hi,

I have a custom column and I would like to set a background color. I know that I can use StyleSelector and it works fine but I want to close this logic in column definition. I was trying to set cell.Background in CreateCellElement method but with no effects:

public class ColorColumn : GridViewDataColumn
    {
        public override FrameworkElement CreateCellElement( GridViewCell cell, object dataItem )
        {
            cell.Background = CalculateCellColor( dataItem );

            return new TextBlock { Text = CalculateCellValue( dataItem ) };
        }
    }

So now I am doing this like this:

public class ColorColumn : GridViewDataColumn
    {
        public ColorColumn()
        {
            this.CellStyleSelector = new ColorColumnStyleSelector();
        }

        public override FrameworkElement CreateCellElement( GridViewCell cell, object dataItem )
        {
            return new TextBlock { Text = CalculateCellValue( dataItem ) };
        }

        private class ColorColumnStyleSelector : StyleSelector
        {
             ...
        }
    }

1. Why cell.Backround = ... doesn't work
2. Do you know other solution

[Yordanka]

Hello Konrad Sikorski,

Please, try our latest internal build - version .0704 where the issue is fixed.

Let us know in case of any problems.

Best wishes,
Yordanka
the Telerik team