Wrap Text In Column....HOW?!

[Christopher]

All I want to do is have a paragraph of text in a cell wrap.  Why is this so hard with your grid control.  Never before have I had so much trouble.  I see the properties and options there (wordwrap, colwidth, rowheight, etc. etc. etc.).  No matter what I do, nothing wraps.

[Nick]

Hello Christopher,

Thank you for your question.

Please set the WrapText property to each column. For instance:

private void Form1_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
       this.radGridView1.Columns[0].WrapText = true;
}

Do not hesitate to write me back if you have further questions.

Sincerely yours,
Nick
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[Barry Harkness]

Nick, how do you wrap text in a multi-row grid using an HtmlViewDefinition?

[Nick]

Hello Barry Harkness,

Thank you for contacting us. It is the same in both views but there is a bug so just setting a property to the column does not work as its value does not propagate properly to the cell. You can work-around the issue by manually setting the text wrapping to the cell in ViewCellFormatting:

void radGridView1_ViewCellFormatting(object sender, CellFormattingEventArgs e)
{
     if (e.CellElement.ColumnInfo.WrapText)
     {
         e.CellElement.TextWrap = true;
     }
}

 
The code above checks the column and propagates the text wrapping to the visual cell element.

We are going to fix the issue in our next official release (Q1 2010) expected at the beginning of March.

Greetings,
Nick
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[Nick]

Hi Barry Harkness,

I created the work-around with our development version, but the property TextWrap is not exposed in Q3 2009 SP1 so here is another work-around (unfortunately there is more code now):

void radGridView1_CreateCell(object sender, GridViewCreateCellEventArgs e)
{

   if (e.CellType == typeof(GridDataCellElement))
   {

       e.CellType = typeof(CustomDataCell);
   }
}

public class CustomDataCell: GridDataCellElement
{

public CustomDataCell(GridViewColumn column, GridRowElement row)
: base(column, row)
{
}

protected override Type ThemeEffectiveType
{
   get
   {
       return typeof(GridDataCellElement);
   }
}

public override StringFormat PaintTextFormat
{

get
{
   StringFormat sf = base.PaintTextFormat;
   sf.FormatFlags &= ~StringFormatFlags.NoWrap;
   return sf;
}

}
}

Best wishes,
Nick
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