Receiving GridViewHyperlinkColumn Click Event

[Chris Moore]

Try as I might, I can find no way to listen for a Click event within a GridViewHyperlink column cell. What am I missing? I am creating the columns of the grid dynamically based on metadata retrieved from a database, e.g.,

column = new GridViewHyperlinkColumn();

(column as GridViewHyperlinkColumn).ContentBinding = new Binding(columnInfo.FieldName);

column.DataMemberBinding = new Binding(columnInfo.FieldName);

column.IsFilterable = columnInfo.CanFilter;

column.Header = columnInfo.DisplayName;

column.IsEnabled = columnInfo.IsEnabled;

column.IsReadOnly = true;

What I would like to be able to do is write something like

(column as GridViewHyperlinkColumn).Clicked += MyClickHandler;

However, the Clicked event is not defined for the column type.

How can I receive the click event?

Thanks,

Chris.

[Milan]

Hello Chris Moore,

You can easily subscribe for MouseDown event of the cells that belong to e certain column by using the RowLoaded event. For example, if your HyperLinkColumn is the first column you can try something like this:

public Window1()
{
    InitializeComponent();

    this.playersGrid.ItemsSource = Club.GetPlayers();
    this.playersGrid.RowLoaded += new System.EventHandler<RowLoadedEventArgs>(playersGrid_RowLoaded);
    this.playersGrid.RowUnloaded += new System.EventHandler<RowUnloadedEventArgs>(playersGrid_RowUnloaded);
}

void playersGrid_RowUnloaded(object sender, RowUnloadedEventArgs e)
{
    var row = e.Row as GridViewRow;

    if (row != null)
    {
        row.Cells[0].RemoveHandler(FrameworkElement.MouseLeftButtonDownEvent, new MouseButtonEventHandler(Window1_MouseLeftButtonDown));
    }
}

void playersGrid_RowLoaded(object sender, Telerik.Windows.Controls.GridView.RowLoadedEventArgs e)
{
    var row = e.Row as GridViewRow;

    if (row != null)
    {
        row.Cells[0].AddHandler(FrameworkElement.MouseLeftButtonDownEvent, new MouseButtonEventHandler(Window1_MouseLeftButtonDown), true);
    }
}

void Window1_MouseLeftButtonDown(object sender, System.Windows.Input.MouseButtonEventArgs e)
{

}

Hope this code helps.

Since we always try to improve our product I am curious how you will use the click events for the hyperlink column. Such information might help us to introduce new functionality that all users can benefit from.

Kind regards,

Milan
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[Chris Moore]

Thanks for the sample; I can now receive the event.

The reason that I need to handle the click event is to programmatically direct the user to another page within the application.

[Chris Moore]

After further reflection, this doesn't completely solve the problem. In this case, the click event will be fired even though the link itself isn't click; merely clicking the cell area, which may not be completely consumed by the link, will generate the event. Is there no way to find out when the actual link is clicked?

Thanks.

[Pavel Pavlov]

Hi Chris Moore,

Let me ofer even simpier solution , that might solve the problem :

after InitializeComponent();  in the window constructor , you may subscribe to the click event of a hyperlink the following way:

 

this.AddHandler(Hyperlink.ClickEvent, new RoutedEventHandler(hyperlinkClicked));

and the handler itself :

void hyperlinkClicked(object sender, RoutedEventArgs args)

       {

           Hyperlink hyperLink = args.OriginalSource as Hyperlink; 
...perform your custom actions here..


       }

Kind regards,
Pavel Pavlov
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[Chris Moore]

Thanks for the tip; that worked perfectly.

[lakshmi ravila]

Hi telerik team,

Thanks for the help.
Now i'm able to catch the hyperlink click event. Can you tell me how to initialise a usercontrol on this click.

We are using MVVM and I want to display usercontrol2.xaml from hyperlink click of radgridview.
Radgridview is in usercontrol1.xaml

Regards,
Lakshmi

[Sathish]

Hi,
    How can accomplish the same hyperlink click if i have a child grid (Hierarchical grid) under the parent grid. Please let me know.

Thanks
Sathish.K