Thanks for the reply.

I forgot to mention this. I need the original row appearance sans the selected or active row appearance. How can I get that?

Thanks

Hello Duncan,

You cannot programmatically get that appearance. It sounds like you are trying to use the row's parent appearance to set the row's appearance, and you are defending against the case that the parent is active. A simpler approach would be to create your Appearance objects you need and set each row's Appearance to the correct global Appearance you've created, based on that row's position.

Please let me know if I can assist you further.

Hello John,

Thank you very much for the tip. Let me try to explain the problem below.

Here is a small snippet containing what we are trying to achieve. This is being done inside on InitializeRow event of the grid.

with e.row

If .HasParent Then
Dim bWasActive As Boolean = False
Dim cellActive As UltraGridCell = ActiveCell
Dim bWasEditing As Boolean = (cellActive?.IsInEditMode).GetValueOrDefault()
Dim bWasSelected As Boolean = .ParentRow.Selected

If .ParentRow.IsActiveRow Then
ActiveRow = Nothing
bWasActive = True
End If

.ParentRow.Selected = False
.ParentRow.ResolveAppearance(oAppData, AppearancePropFlags.BackColor)
.Appearance.BackColor = oAppData.BackColor

If bWasActive Then
ActiveRow = .ParentRow
End If

ActiveCell = cellActive

If bWasEditing Then
PerformAction(UltraGridAction.EnterEditMode)
End If

.ParentRow.Selected = bWasSelected
End If

End With

One thing I will like to mention here is we use themes and have a style file for each theme. Doing the above causes issues because see how we set active row to nothing. If there is an active object binding for a grid, then making active row nothing and again back to something creates issues. Similarly putting cell back to edit mode is not always working. It puts the cell to active mode but user sometimes cannot edit it. So above way does not appear to be a decent way to achieve what we need. 

So if I am using style files, when will be a good time in code to create these appearance objects. Unless initializeRow fires, user does not know if it is going to normal row or alternate row. Hope this clarifies our issue more.

Thanks

Hello John,

The style library name and style resource name really helped. We did the following:

If .HasParent Then

If HasData(.ParentRow.Appearance.StyleLibraryName) Then
.Appearance.StyleLibraryName = .ParentRow.Appearance.StyleLibraryName
.Appearance.StyleResourceName = .ParentRow.Appearance.StyleResourceName
Else
.Appearance.StyleLibraryName ="GRIDROWSTYLE"

If .ParentRow.IsAlternate Then
.Appearance.StyleResourceName = "ALTERNATEROW"
Else
.Appearance.StyleResourceName = "NORMALROW"
End If
End If
End If

It is working. Thank you so much for the assistance.