{"id":1158,"date":"2014-10-29T12:02:28","date_gmt":"2014-10-29T12:02:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ibex.tech\/visualcpp\/?p=1158"},"modified":"2022-02-17T06:24:03","modified_gmt":"2022-02-17T06:24:03","slug":"buttons-in-a-datagridview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ibex.tech\/visualcpp\/datagridview\/buttons-in-a-datagridview","title":{"rendered":"Buttons, Images etc in a DataGridView"},"content":{"rendered":"

\nProgrammatically creating DataGridView with customised items in each cell
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\nSetup The DataGridView
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\r\n\r\n\t\/\/----- CREATE THE DATAGRID VIEW COLUMNS -----\r\n\tdataGridView1->AutoGenerateColumns = false;\r\n\tdataGridView1->DataSource = nullptr;\t\t\t\/\/Clear the grid if necessary\r\n\tdataGridView1->Columns->Clear();\r\n\r\n\t\/\/TEXT BOX COLUMN\r\n\tDataGridViewTextBoxColumn ^DataGridColumnString1 = gcnew DataGridViewTextBoxColumn();\r\n\tDataGridColumnString1->HeaderText = "My String Column";\r\n\t\/\/DataGridColumnString1->ReadOnly = true;\r\n\t\/\/DataGridColumnName->SortMode = DataGridViewColumnSortMode::NotSortable;\r\n\tdataGridView1->Columns->Add(DataGridColumnString1);\r\n\r\n\t\/\/BUTTON COLUMN\r\n\tDataGridViewButtonColumn ^DataGridColumnButton1 = gcnew DataGridViewButtonColumn();\r\n\tDataGridColumnButton1->HeaderText = "My Button Column";\r\n\t\/\/DataGridColumnButton1->ReadOnly = true;\r\n\tdataGridView1->Columns->Add(DataGridColumnButton1);\r\n\r\n\t\/\/IMAGE COLUMN\r\n\tDataGridViewImageColumn ^DataGridColumnImage1 = gcnew DataGridViewImageColumn();\r\n\tDataGridColumnImage1->HeaderText = "My Image Column";\r\n\t\/\/DataGridColumnImage1->ReadOnly = true;\r\n\tdataGridView1->Columns->Add(DataGridColumnImage1);\r\n\r\n\t\/\/COMBO BOX COLUMN\r\n\tDataGridViewComboBoxColumn ^DataGridColumnComboBox1 = gcnew DataGridViewComboBoxColumn();\r\n\tDataGridColumnComboBox1->HeaderText = "My Combo Box Column";\r\n\t\/\/DataGridColumnComboBox1->ReadOnly = true;\r\n\t\/\/DataGridColumnComboBox1->FlatStyle = FlatStyle::Flat;\t\/\/Enable to remove button look of cell\r\n\tDataGridColumnComboBox1->Items->Add("A");\r\n\tDataGridColumnComboBox1->Items->Add("B");\r\n\tDataGridColumnComboBox1->Items->Add("C");\r\n\tdataGridView1->Columns->Add(DataGridColumnComboBox1);\r\n\t\r\n\tdataGridView1->Columns[0]->Width = 120;\r\n\tdataGridView1->Columns[1]->Width = 80;\r\n\tdataGridView1->Columns[2]->Width = 60;\r\n\tdataGridView1->Columns[3]->AutoSizeMode = System::Windows::Forms::DataGridViewAutoSizeColumnMode::Fill;\r\n\r\n\t\/\/----- ADD THE ROWS -----\r\n\t\/\/Row 0\r\n\tdataGridView1->Rows->Add();\r\n\tdataGridView1->Rows[0]->Cells[0]->Value = "Row 0";\r\n\tdataGridView1->Rows[0]->Cells[1]->Value = "Button 0";\r\n\tdataGridView1->Rows[0]->Cells[2]->Value = imageList1->Images[0];\r\n\tdataGridView1->Rows[0]->Cells[3]->Value = "A";\r\n\r\n\t\/\/Row 1\r\n\tdataGridView1->Rows->Add();\r\n\tdataGridView1->Rows[1]->Cells[0]->Value = "Row 1";\r\n\tdataGridView1->Rows[1]->Cells[1]->Value = "Button 1";\r\n\tdataGridView1->Rows[1]->Cells[2]->Value = imageList1->Images[0];\r\n\tdataGridView1->Rows[1]->Cells[3]->Value = "B";\r\n\r\n<\/code><\/pre>\n
\nThe Cell Clicked Function
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\r\n\r\n\t\/\/********************************************************\r\n\t\/\/********************************************************\r\n\t\/\/********** DATAGRIDVIEW CELL \/ BUTTON CLICKED **********\r\n\t\/\/********************************************************\r\n\t\/\/********************************************************\r\n\tprivate: System::Void dataGridView1_CellClick(System::Object^  sender, System::Windows::Forms::DataGridViewCellEventArgs^  e)\r\n\t{\r\n\t\t\tif (e->RowIndex > -1)\t\t\/\/Ignore clicks of the column headers\r\n\t\t\t{\r\n\t\t\t\tif (e->ColumnIndex == 1)\r\n\t\t\t\t{\r\n\t\t\t\t\tMessageBox::Show(" Row " + e->RowIndex + ", Column " + e->ColumnIndex + " button clicked");\r\n\t\t\t\t}\r\n\t\t\t}\r\n\t}\r\n<\/code><\/pre>\n
\nSimple DataGridView with a column of matching buttons
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\nSetup the DataGridView
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\r\n\r\n\t\/\/--------------------------------\r\n\t\/\/----- SETUP DATA GRID VIEW -----\r\n\t\/\/--------------------------------\r\n\tdataGridView1->DataSource = nullptr;\t\t\t\/\/Clear the grid if necessary\r\n\tdataGridView1->Columns->Clear();\r\n\r\n\tdataGridView1->AutoGenerateColumns = false;\r\n\tdataGridView1->ColumnCount = 3;\r\n\tdataGridView1->Columns[0]->Name = "Column A";\r\n\tdataGridView1->Columns[1]->Name = "Column B";\r\n\tdataGridView1->Columns[2]->Name = "Column C";\r\n\r\n\tarray<String^> ^DataGridRow = gcnew array<String^> { "1", "Item 1", "100" };\r\n\tdataGridView1->Rows->Add(DataGridRow);\r\n\r\n\tDataGridRow = gcnew array<String^> { "2", "Item 2", "200" };\r\n\tdataGridView1->Rows->Add(DataGridRow);\r\n\t\r\n\tDataGridRow = gcnew array<String^> { "3", "Item 3", "300" };\r\n\tdataGridView1->Rows->Add(DataGridRow);\r\n\t\r\n\tDataGridRow = gcnew array<String^> { "4", "Item 4", "400" };\r\n\tdataGridView1->Rows->Add(DataGridRow);\r\n\r\n\tDataGridViewButtonColumn ^DataGridButton = gcnew DataGridViewButtonColumn();\r\n\tdataGridView1->Columns->Add(DataGridButton);\r\n\tDataGridButton->HeaderText = "Button Column";\r\n\tDataGridButton->Text = "Click Here";\r\n\tDataGridButton->Name = "Abc";\r\n\tDataGridButton->UseColumnTextForButtonValue = true;\r\n<\/code><\/pre>\n
\nThe Cell Clicked Function
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\r\n\r\n\t\/\/********************************************************\r\n\t\/\/********************************************************\r\n\t\/\/********** DATAGRIDVIEW CELL \/ BUTTON CLICKED **********\r\n\t\/\/********************************************************\r\n\t\/\/********************************************************\r\n\tprivate: System::Void dataGridView1_CellClick(System::Object^  sender, System::Windows::Forms::DataGridViewCellEventArgs^  e)\r\n\t{\r\n\t\t\tif (e->RowIndex > -1)\t\t\/\/Ignore clicks of the column headers\r\n\t\t\t{\r\n\t\t\t\tif (e->ColumnIndex == 3)\r\n\t\t\t\t{\r\n\t\t\t\t\tMessageBox::Show(" Row " + e->RowIndex + ", Column " + e->ColumnIndex + " button clicked");\r\n\t\t\t\t}\r\n\t\t\t}\r\n\t}\r\n<\/code><\/pre>\n
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Programmatically creating DataGridView with customised items in each cell Setup The DataGridView \/\/—– CREATE THE DATAGRID VIEW COLUMNS —– dataGridView1->AutoGenerateColumns = false; dataGridView1->DataSource = nullptr; \/\/Clear the grid if necessary dataGridView1->Columns->Clear(); \/\/TEXT BOX COLUMN DataGridViewTextBoxColumn ^DataGridColumnString1 = gcnew DataGridViewTextBoxColumn(); DataGridColumnString1->HeaderText = "My String Column"; \/\/DataGridColumnString1->ReadOnly = true; \/\/DataGridColumnName->SortMode = DataGridViewColumnSortMode::NotSortable; dataGridView1->Columns->Add(DataGridColumnString1); \/\/BUTTON COLUMN DataGridViewButtonColumn ^DataGridColumnButton1 = […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[75],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-datagridview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ibex.tech\/visualcpp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ibex.tech\/visualcpp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ibex.tech\/visualcpp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ibex.tech\/visualcpp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ibex.tech\/visualcpp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1158"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/ibex.tech\/visualcpp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1158\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1363,"href":"https:\/\/ibex.tech\/visualcpp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1158\/revisions\/1363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ibex.tech\/visualcpp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ibex.tech\/visualcpp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ibex.tech\/visualcpp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}