RadGridView: make column or cell not clickable

[Eldoir]

Hello,

The leftmost column of my RadGridView has cells containing a "Save" button (a disk icon you can click).

I want users to be able to click on that Save button but not on the cell itself, nor the column, because it's kinda pointless.

I tried setting IsReadOnly to true and IsEnabled to false on this GridViewColumn but it doesn't help!

Thanks for your answer!

[Martin Ivanov]

Hello Arthur,

I am not sure what do you mean by saying that the user should not be able to click on the cell itself, but by guess here is that you need to disable the selection and current cell change that happens on cell click. Please correct me if I am wrong. Otherwise, you can achieve your requirement by using the PreviewMouseLeftButtonDown event of RadGridView where you can handle the click action in case a cell from the button's column is clicked.

You can find this approach shown in the attached project. I hope that helps.

Regards,
Martin Ivanov
Progress Telerik

[Eldoir]

Hello Martin,

This is what I was looking for. Thanks!

[Eldoir]

EDIT: actually I answered too fast.

The event is not triggered if I click on a cell, only if I click on the background of the grid (where there are no rows).
I can't get it to work when I click on a cell!

[Martin Ivanov]

I've double checked my project and I can confirm that the event is triggered wherever you click. Can you please test it with the latest version of UI for WPF and see if the project works as expected? Also, can you record a video showing where exactly do you click in order for the event to be skipped? And one more thing, which Telerik theme do you use?

In the meantime, you can try to use the AddHandler() method in order to subscribe to the event. This will allow you to allow handled events too.

this.gridView.AddHandler(RadGridView.PreviewMouseLeftButtonDownEvent, new MouseButtonEventHandler(RadGridView_PreviewMouseLeftButtonDown), true);

[Eldoir]

Hello Martin,

First, happy new year :o)

I don't remember what I did exactly 2 weeks ago that made it not work, but after restarting from scratch, the event seems to be triggered now.

Still, it's a lot of code for a simple "NotSelectable" feature that would be much more convenient to handle per column.
Does it sound relevant to you? Is it something planned for a future update?

Anyway, I believe that users of Telerik would expect the column cells not to be selectable when the column is flagged with "IsEnabled = false"!

[Martin Ivanov]

Happy New Year!

I am glad to hear that you managed to run the solution on your side.

About the "NotSelectable" feature, can you tell me how the cell click should behave exactly in case the cell is not selectable? Note that there are two things that happen when you click onto a cell. The cell or the entire row get selected (based on the SelectionUnit) and also the clicked cell becomes current cell. In other words, there are two features - selection and currency - that appear on cell click.

Can you tell me which one do you want to disable with the "NotSelectable" feature? Or maybe you want to disable both the selection and the currency setting?

[Eldoir]

Yes, I would want to disable both I guess. This wouldn't prevent the user from clicking a button within a cell, right?

[Martin Ivanov]

Thank you for the feedback. Based on it I've opened a new feature request in the Telerik UI for WPF Feedback Portal. There you can track its status. You can also find your Telerik points updated.

In the details of the feature I've described that the feature should disable only the selection and currency changes. Anything custom inside the cell (like a button) will be available for interaction.

[Eldoir]

Thanks Martin!