User interaction with the gridView

[Henri]

Hi,

I am using the hierarchical Gridview as some sort of navigation tree.
Typically, the Grid is positioned on the left pane, the right pane contains detail data an more.

When the user selects a row, from any level in the grid, extra data is loaded and displayed on the right pane.
Mostly, the detail pane contains a lot more data, than is displayed in the navigation grid. Depending on the network speed, this can take a bit of time.

My problem is that the grid, used as a data navigation aid, still accepts user interaction while detail data is being retrieved from the database.

Now I have to options:
1. fetch detail data in a separate thread, and abort when the user selects another row.
2. keep the grid (navigation aid) from processing user interaction while detail data is loading.

My question is,
can user interaction with the grid be placed on the same thread, so that it has to wait for the detail data being loaded?

Thanks.

[Henri]

Hello again,

Handling SelectionChanged and setting e.Cancel=true when details are still loading solves my problem.
But calling Application.DoEvents() to force an update of a status label (indicating database is being accessed), causes a NullReferenceException in GridTableElement.OnSelectionChanged.

[Dimitar]

Hello Henri,

Thank you for writing.

I am not sure what do you mean by place the user interaction on the same thread, but mixing treads in such way is not recommended. A simple solution would be to just to use a flag and cancel the row changing if the loading is not complete. In this case you can use the CurrentRowChanging event to cancel the change if the load is not completed:

bool loaded = false;

void radGridView1_CurrentRowChanging(object sender, CurrentRowChangingEventArgs e)
{
    if (!loaded)
    {
        e.Cancel = true;
    }
}

For the sake of the example I have attached a sample where the user can change the current row once every ten seconds.

I hope this helps. Should you have any other questions do not hesitate to ask.

Regards,
Dimitar
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