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Is there a property that adjusts the cell width to fit the contents and label...

Rico posted over 16 years ago

depending on whichever is larger automatically.

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Offline Joe Modica posted over 16 years ago

Hi -

There is no property that can achieve this and in fact this is not a scenario that is supported. The reason is simple really: if the cell width was based on the contents of the cell then the cell width would potentially change as the grid was scrolled to reveal new rows that contained different cell content. This wouldn't be great behavior.

You will need to manually initialize the width to a value that accomdates most content scenarios and then rely on the user to resize the column manually via the UI if larger content is displayed. The grid will preserve the user's resizing as the grid is scrolled to new pages.

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Paul posted over 16 years ago in reply to Joe Modica

Is this not a step backwards in the grand scheme of things, considering dataGrids of the past?
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samc1959 posted over 16 years ago in reply to Joe Modica

Maybe your ultragrid never has, but the standard grid from VB has - I think this is what is meant by 'a step backwards'. I for one am amazed that there's not an easy design setting that does this. I've created a combo and the drop down is tiny, not taking up the real-estate I've laid out on the form - why? This seems counter-intuitive, as if the control has a mindset of it's own. Be that as it may, I should be able, through properties, not complex property assignments, be able to do the following on any grid: Display to header width, Disply to max width of displayed cells, display to max width of all data in cells, expand to fill available area. Why this is so complex, is a mystery to me.
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Offline Joe Modica posted over 16 years ago in reply to Paul
Hi -

With regard to our WindowsForms UltraGrid, it has never provided automatic column width sizing, although it does offer the following functionality which the XamDataGrid does not:

it exposes public methods that you can call to resize column widths based on header content or cell content, for all records or just visible records

it resizes the column width when the user double-clicks the splitter between column headers

If you would like to see one or both of these features added to the XamDataGrid, please submit a feature request here: http://devcenter.infragistics.com/Protected/RequestFeature.aspx

Joe
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