I am trying to create a "conversation control" that can show a running list of entries, much like the IM application on many smartphones. To do this, I was thinking about using a WinGrid and then merging cells together to get the overlap look that is prevalent with other UIs that do this sort of thing.
I started by trying to merge cells and shown in this example (http://forums.infragistics.com/forums/p/34712/206196.aspx#206196), but was unsuccessful.
Does anyone know of a way to mimic the overlapping "text bubbles" look prevalent in many IM apps? Does Infragistics have a control that would be easily adaptable to this?
Here is the images of the example showing the problem:
Hristo,
Thanks again for your help with this. I have been able to reproduce this in the attached example. I just took the prior example and added filter code to make this happen. I docked the grid in the form so that when you resize the form, the cells are resized as well. The problem here is that the text is slightly truncated on the right side when the cells are resized. It is more pronounced in my app, but you can definitely see what I am talking about with this example. Do you have any suggestions as to how I might be able to avoid this truncation problem?
Hello ,
I am not able to reproduce this issue on my end with the latest sample which I have posted. And the strange thing that I have noticed is that the header is not trunked, so is it possible to post a small sample where this is reproducible and I will look into it.
Thank you for using Infragistics components.
First, thanks again for your help.
There is one nagging issue that I can't seem to solve and that is the problem of text being truncated. As you can see on the picture below, text is being cut off in some situations. I have tried editing the CellPadding, CellSpacing, and TextTrimming parameters, but no amount of tweaking to these parameters seems to help. Also, I have gone into the draw filter and removed the rounding on the edges of the cells to just draw a squared-off rectangle and that didn't help either.
This problem can be seen in the latest example project that is attached in this thread. Is there some special way to correct the truncation, or is this a limitation when using a FormattedText cell style?
Thanks again,
Keith
Using the min row height worked. I think that has the control in good shape. Thanks for all of your help!