I am writing a control based on the UltraDayView (inherits UltraDayView) which requires a lot of custom GDI+ work.
One of the problems I'm running into is my inability to control the invalidation of certain parts of the control. As I move the mouse, resize the window, etc, the UltraDayView marks certain areas as invalidated and I can't stop it. Overriding OnInvalidated obviously doesn't help because at that point the areas have already been marked for repainting. It would be great if there was an event like OnBeforeInvalidate(_invalidRect) so that I could control what areas are to be redrawn, but of course one does not exist.
Is there a way I can turn off all or refreshing done by the UltraDayView itself or perhaps just control the rectange/region being passed to invalidate? Perhaps by overriding WndProc? Perhaps through some underlying Infragistics mechanism I am not aware of?
Thanks,
Raphael
When trying to change the appearance or layout of our controls. You want to use a DrawFilter or a CreationFilter. Essentially you create a class that lets you change how elements are drawn or laid out.
For more information see the following on the Presentation Layer Framework that our controls are built on top of:
http://help.infragistics.com/Help/NetAdvantage/WinForms/2009.1/CLR2.0/html/Win_Presentation_Layer_Framework_PLF.html
Filters:
http://help.infragistics.com/Help/NetAdvantage/WinForms/2009.1/CLR2.0/html/Win_Filters.html
Sung,
Thank you for your reply. I am already using GetPhasesToFilter/DrawElement rather than overriding OnPaint in order to customize my inherited UltraDayView control. However, I need to do something more complex. I have a parent control that needs to draw on top of the child UltraDayView controls contained within it (using WS_CLIPCHILDREN). The problem is that I need to be able to control specifically which part of the UltraDayView control is being invalidated, otherwise managing the repainting in my parent control becomes unmanageable.
I'd love to get some ideas on how this could be accomplished.
Please let me know if what I'm describing makes any sense.
I've never used WS_CLIPCHILDREN but from your description it seems that you want to keep certain parts of the dayview from repainting so that it does not get paint over your parent control.
Could you provide a screenshot of specifically what portions you want to keep from painting. Is it a general region?
If I have misunderstood, can you provide further details. Images will probably help.
Yes, that is exactly right.
One of the things the parent control needs to do is draw custom context menus/sub-windows on top of the UltraDayView controls and the repainting of the different UIElements is paining over these windows. The region I want to keep from painting is arbitrary (does not map to any specific UIElement within the UltraDayView) and often spans parts of several UltraDayView controls and many UIElements within each.
I can send a stripped down sample to show you what is happening if that would be helpful.
Thanks again!
rmorozov said:One of the things the parent control needs to do is draw custom context menus/sub-windows on top of the UltraDayView controls
Brian,
I need an extremely customized interface for extremely picky users (specialty project for the president of a major motion picture studio and his team) and I'm working off graphic designer generated screenshots/flows. A context menu just won't do.
-Raphael
I guess see what Sung comes up with after he tales a lok at the sample...I would think this problem could be solved using the IUIElementCreationFilter interface, but the penalty there is you will have to devote some time to creating your own custom UIElement-derived classes to use in your implementation.