How to know absolute cell position in grid

[Daniel Sprague]

Hi Everyone,

I have a grid on a winform.  The grid has a "notes" column in it.  When the user goes to edit the notes, I have a little popup - text editing window appear - something similar to the text property drop down editor in the property sheet of visual studio.

What I can't figure out is how to correctly position the little popup text editing window.  It should be displayed immediately below the grid's current cell and left aligned with the cell.

The problem I'm having is how to determine the absolute position of the grid's current cell, taking into account other grid elements (header rows, group header rows, new record rows), and also taking into account the Y position, especially when the grid may be scrolled to the left.

I've put the code to display the popup in the CellEditorInitialized event of the grid, which works great for knowing which cell is being edited, with the event args.  But only if that event also had mouse args. 

Anyone have any ideas?

Thanks much!
Dan

[Svett]

Hi Daniel Sprague,

When you enter edit mode, the grid changes its current cell. You can determine the current cell using the property CurrentCell of the grid. You are on the right way. You can use CellEditorInitialized event to change the location of your window. You need only to convert the location of the cell using the absolute position. You can use PointToScreen method of the cell to convert its location in screen coordinates. You can use the following code snippet:

private void radGridView_CellEditorInitialized(object sender, GridViewCellEventArgs e)
{
    Point absolutePosition =  this.radGridView.CurrentCell.PointToScreen(this.radGridView.CurrentCell.Location);
}

If you need further assistance feel free to contact us back.

Sincerely yours,
Svett
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[Avi]

Hello,

I am using telerik:RadGridView.

Outside the grid, at the bottom, I want to position a stackpanel exactly under it's 6th column.
Using margins does not help because it changes between screen resolutions.

How do I find the relative position for the stackpanel?

The code is like this :

<telerik:RadGridView>
........
</telerik:RadGridView>

<StackPanel
            Margin="0,10,170,0"
            HorizontalAlignment="Center"
            Orientation="Horizontal">
            <TextBlock VerticalAlignment="Center" Text="Total Balance:" />
            <Border VerticalAlignment="Top">
                        <TextBlock Width="100"
                                VerticalAlignment="Center"
                                FlowDirection="LeftToRight"
                                Padding="3"
                                Text="{Binding TotalPaymentBalance,  StringFormat='{}{0:C2}',Mode=OneWay}" />
                        </Border>
</StackPanel>

Thanks

[Vlad]

Hi,

 Please post your questions in the relevant forum category!

All the best,
Vlad
the Telerik team