Ria Services autogenerated checkbox save on click

[Chris]

Hi,

I am using the radgridview to display a collection of ria services entities that are autogenerated.  Included in the entity is a boolean that is rendered via an autogenerated checkbox.  Currently if I check or uncheck the checkbox, I have to move focus away from the checkbox in order for the new value to be updated on the entity.  I would like for the value to be updated on the entity immediately upon checking or unchecking the checkbox (so that I can immediately perform other actions that affect other entities in the collection).  How can I accomplish this?

Thanks

[Ivan Ivanov]

Hi Chris,

I have prepared an example project for you case. Please, refer to it and inform us if this approach meets your requirements.

All the best,
Ivan Ivanov
the Telerik team

[Chris]

Hi Ivan,

Thanks for the sample.  Your sample works well, but it depends on defining a CellEditTemplate.  Because I am using autogeneration, I do not have CellEditTemplates defined.  I was hoping that I could get to the cell instanciated checkbox and hook the Click event, but I have not been able to in a couple scenarios:

1. I tried to hook the RowLoaded event on the grid and execute the following code:

if (cell.Content is CheckBox)
{
 (cell.Content as CheckBox).Click += new RoutedEventHandler(DataEntityGridView_Click);
}

In this case the click event does not fire when being clicked.

2. I tried to hook the BeginningEdit and CellEditEnding events to hook and unhook the Click event:

private void DataGrid_BeginningEdit(object sender, GridViewBeginningEditRoutedEventArgs e)
{
 if (e.Cell.Content is CheckBox)
 {
  (e.Cell.Content as CheckBox).Click += DataEntityGridView_Click;
 }
}

private void DataGrid_CellEditEnded(object sender, GridViewCellEditEndedEventArgs e)
{
 if (e.Cell.Content is CheckBox)
 {
  (e.Cell.Content as CheckBox).Click -= DataEntityGridView_Click;
 }
}

The click event did not fire in this case either.

Any other ideas?

Thanks,
Chris

[Chris]

I came up with a solution that seems to work:

1. I created a new control (CommitOnClickCheckBox) that inherits from CheckBox and implements the Click event in the way your sample suggested:

private void CheckBox_Click(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)
{
 CheckBox checkbox = sender as CheckBox;
 if (checkbox.ParentOfType<GridViewCell>().IsInEditMode)
 {
  checkbox.ParentOfType<GridViewCell>().CommitEdit();
 }
}

2. In the datagrid AutoGeneratingColumn event I detect that the column needs to implement the "commit on click" behavior and set the CellEditTemplate to a dynamically created data template that defines the CommitOnClickCheckBox with the binding to the passed field name:

e.Column.CellEditTemplate = CreateCommitOnClickCheckboxDataTemplate();

private DataTemplate CreateCommitOnClickCheckboxDataTemplate(string fieldName)
{
 string xaml = @"<DataTemplate xmlns=""http://schemas.microsoft.com/client/2007"""
  + @" xmlns:mynamespace=""http://mycompany/mynamespace"">"
  + @"<mynamespace:CommitOnClickCheckBox IsChecked=""{Binding " + fieldName + @", Mode=TwoWay}"" /></DataTemplate>";
 return (DataTemplate) XamlReader.Load(xaml) as DataTemplate;
}

 

This implementation solves my problem.  I am sharing in case it is useful to anyone else.

-Chris