Hi Todd,

I'm having some trouble understanding the situation. It's clear that you have some grids and Radio buttons on a scrollable form.

If you tab into a grid that is partially out of view, the form will scroll the grid control into view. This has nothing to do with the grid, the form does this. Three's a property on the form called AutoScroll which automatically tries to scroll the active control into view.

Todd N said:

This makes the page extremely difficult to use if there is content present in these rows. If you reverse tab - or even repeatedly click between the two cells on a row and the form re-positions to the bottom the row you are clicking - till any rows that were visible (i.e. 3 valid rows that were visible below current row) - no longer are.

Here's where you lost me. This paragraph doesn't make sense. I think you are missing some words in there.

Can you post a small sample project demonstrating the issue you are having so we can check it out? I expect with something so complex, it will be impossible to assist you without a sample we can work with. There are just too many factors in play here.

I did notice if I click yes and TAB into a barely visible grid - that as you said, the form scrolls to place 'almost' the entire box on the page, just a few pixels of the grid remain off the page. The problem is - IF the grid is remotely off the screen which it was here - the form scrolls on click. If the entire grid is visible, above the bottom of the form - then the form does not scroll at all.

This is not a show-stopper - the application can be used - but considering the users have been 'TAB'ing through these grids for years - since updating from 7.3 to 11.2 they now have to manually re-position the page at times to work on a medication table now - which is why it was sent to me.

Trivia: I did download the source for 11.2...2028 - and sorry, I forgot the line - but I found the auto-scroll function that was causing this to happen, commented it out and solve this - course, management didn't want modified 3rd party code so that solution/directory was deleted when the app was released in February.
What was happening then was the following code - previously used with 7.3 - now used with 11.2 caused the entire page to scroll dramatically making it unusable - so OnGridEnter was commented out for the Feb release.  Then it was realized that this code was what enabled TABing through cells - thus my fix above - redesign of this method. So - you could paste this in a sample grid app, attach it to the grid-event and see if it destroys scrolling in that app??

From the form related to Grid:

 public static void OnGridEnter(object sender, EventArgs e)
 {
     UltraGrid grid = (UltraGrid)sender;

     // Activate the first non-hidden cell.
            using (UltraGridColumn FirstNonHiddenColumn = grid.DisplayLayout.Bands[0].Columns.OfType<UltraGridColumn>().FirstOrDefault(a => !a.Hidden))
            {
                if (FirstNonHiddenColumn != null)
                {
                    grid.Rows.TemplateAddRow.Cells[FirstNonHiddenColumn.Index].Activate();
                }
            }

     grid.PerformAction(UltraGridAction.EnterEditMode);
 }

 public static void BeforeGridRowDeactivate(object sender, System.ComponentModel.CancelEventArgs e)
 {
  UltraGrid grid = (UltraGrid)sender;
  int activeRowIndex = grid.ActiveRow.Index;
  grid.Rows[activeRowIndex].PerformAutoSize();
 }
 

From the class that dynamically adds this grid to the form:

 UltraGrid grid = new UltraGrid();
        grid.Name = currentQuestion.Id.ToString();
        grid.DisplayLayout.TabNavigation = TabNavigation.NextControlOnLastCell;
        grid.Leave += new System.EventHandler(QuestionnaireForm.OnGridLeave);
        grid.BeforeRowDeactivate += new System.ComponentModel.CancelEventHandler(QuestionnaireForm.BeforeGridRowDeactivate);
        grid.InitializeLayout += new Infragistics.Win.UltraWinGrid.InitializeLayoutEventHandler(QuestionnaireForm.OnInitializeLayout);
        // Enter - used during form load to pre-enable grids if they have data - normally all grids loaded disabled
        grid.Enter += new EventHandler(QuestionnaireForm.OnGridEnter);
        // AfterCellUpdate - sets values from database
        grid.AfterCellUpdate += new CellEventHandler(grid_AfterCellUpdate);
        grid.Error += new Infragistics.Win.UltraWinGrid.ErrorEventHandler(this.OnGridError);
        grid.DataSource = currentQuestion.GridResponses;
        grid.Top = currentQuestion.AnswerYCoordinate;
        grid.Left = currentQuestion.AnswerXCoordinate;
        grid.Height = currentQuestion.AnswerHeight;
        grid.Enabled = questionEnabled;

        section.Controls.Add(grid);

There is further processing to set cell styles based on content - I exclued thatsince technically with breakpoints in it, they never hit on this form load. The calling class uses this grid for other forms as well which may use these set cell styles. This from uses only standard text cells.