popup window on CellEdit

[Rayne]

I have a gridview and one of the columns needs a popup window for selecting the appropriate value because the list of available choices is over 200 records.

I've created a CellEditTemplate with a button bound to a command on my viewmodel, but I'm not sure this is the best approach. Because I have to bind the selectedItem of the grid to a property, so that when I show the popup window, it can alter the appropriate property of the selectedItem.

When I click on the "insert row", the new row isn't automatically the selected row. How do I get to to automatically be the selected row, so that my popup window has something to change? Or is there a better way to present the choices to the user besides a popup window?

[Maya]

Hi Rayne,

Generally, the most appropriate solution depends entirely your the particular scenario you want to accomplish and the exact settings of your application.
Considering binding of the selected item, you may easily do it as follows:

public class MyViewModel : INotifyPropertyChanged
    {
        public event PropertyChangedEventHandler PropertyChanged;

        private object selectedItem;

        public object SelectedItem
        {
            get { return this.selectedItem; }
            set
            {
                if (value != this.selectedItem)
                {
                    this.selectedItem = value;
                    this.OnPropertyChanged("SelectedItem");
                }
            }
        }

        protected virtual void OnPropertyChanged(PropertyChangedEventArgs args)
        {
            PropertyChangedEventHandler handler = this.PropertyChanged;
            if (handler != null)
            {
                handler(this, args);
            }
        }

        private void OnPropertyChanged(string propertyName)
        {
            this.OnPropertyChanged(new PropertyChangedEventArgs(propertyName));
        }
    }

If MyViewModel is the context of your grid, you can define the binding as follows:

<telerik:RadGridView Name="clubsGrid"
                         ItemsSource="{Binding Clubs}"
                         AutoGenerateColumns="False"
                         SelectedItem="{Binding SelectedItem}">

As for inserting a new item, you may subscribe to the AddingNewDataItem event and open the pop up in the handler.

Greetings,
Maya
the Telerik team

[Rayne]

Thank you. I was able to finally get it working the way I needed it to. One of the things I love about WPF, it is so flexible!!