DashboardViewer.DashboardItemBeforeControlDisposed Event
Allows you to access underlying WinForms controls.
Namespace: DevExpress.DashboardWin
Assembly: DevExpress.Dashboard.v24.1.Win.dll
NuGet Package: DevExpress.Win.Dashboard
Declaration
public event DashboardItemBeforeControlDisposedEventHandler DashboardItemBeforeControlDisposed
Event Data
The DashboardItemBeforeControlDisposed event's data class is DashboardItemControlEventArgs. The following properties provide information specific to this event:
Property | Description |
---|---|
CardControl | Gets an underlying Card control. |
ChartContext | Gets the chart context. |
ChartControl | Gets an underlying chart control. |
DashboardItemName | Gets the component name of the dashboard item for which the event was raised. |
DateFilterControl | Gets an underlying date filter control. |
GaugeContext | Gets the gauge context. |
GaugeControl | Gets an underlying gauge control. |
GridContext | Gets the grid context. |
GridControl | Gets an underlying grid control. |
MapControl | Gets an underlying map control. |
PictureEdit | Gets an underlying picture edit control. |
PivotGridControl | Gets an underlying PivotGridControl. |
RichEditControl | Gets an underlying RichEdit control. |
TreeMapControl | Gets an underlying TreeMap control. |
Remarks
The WinForms Viewer uses DevExpress WinForms controls to visualize data within dashboard items. The DashboardViewer.DashboardItemControlUpdated event allows you to access these controls and customize their settings if necessary.
The DashboardItemControlEventArgs.DashboardItemName property returns the component name of the dashboard item to be customized. Use the following properties to access the corresponding underlying controls.
Dashboard Item | Control | Property |
---|---|---|
You can change the control setting or handle its events. To subscribe/unsubscribe from control events, use the DashboardViewer.DashboardItemControlCreated/DashboardItemBeforeControlDisposed events, respectively.
To learn more, see Access to Underlying Controls.
Example
The following example demonstrates how to customize controls used to visualize data within dashboard items at runtime using DashboardViewer‘s API.
In this example, the following options are changed:
- The font of data rows’ text is changed in the underlying grid control in the DashboardViewer.DashboardItemControlUpdated event handler.
- The background color of the chart’s pane is changed in the DashboardViewer.DashboardItemControlUpdated event handler.
- Values of data cells in the underlying pivot grid control are customized using the PivotGridControl.CustomCellValue event. Subscription and unsubscription to/from the CustomCellValue event are performed in the DashboardViewer.DashboardItemControlCreated and
DashboardViewer.DashboardItemBeforeControlDisposed
event handlers respectively.
Imports System.Drawing
Imports DevExpress.XtraEditors
Imports DevExpress.DashboardWin
Imports DevExpress.XtraGrid.Views.Grid
Imports DevExpress.XtraCharts
Imports DevExpress.XtraPivotGrid
Namespace Dashboard_ControlAccess
Partial Public Class Form1
Inherits XtraForm
Public Sub New()
InitializeComponent()
dashboardViewer1.LoadDashboard("..\..\Data\Dashboard.xml")
End Sub
Private Sub dashboardViewer1_DashboardItemControlCreated(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As DashboardItemControlEventArgs) Handles dashboardViewer1.DashboardItemControlCreated
If e.DashboardItemName = "pivotDashboardItem1" Then
Dim pivotGridControl As PivotGridControl = e.PivotGridControl
AddHandler pivotGridControl.CustomCellValue, AddressOf pivotGridControl_CustomCellValue
End If
End Sub
Private Sub pivotGridControl_CustomCellValue(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As PivotCellValueEventArgs)
If e.Value IsNot Nothing AndAlso DirectCast(e.Value, Decimal) < 2000 Then
e.Value = "Too low to show"
End If
End Sub
Private Sub dashboardViewer1_DashboardItemControlUpdated(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As DashboardItemControlEventArgs) Handles dashboardViewer1.DashboardItemControlUpdated
If e.DashboardItemName = "gridDashboardItem1" Then
Dim gridView As GridView = TryCast(e.GridControl.MainView, GridView)
gridView.Appearance.Row.Font = New Font("Segoe Script", 10)
End If
If e.DashboardItemName = "chartDashboardItem1" Then
Dim chartControl As ChartControl = e.ChartControl
CType(chartControl.Diagram, XYDiagram).Panes(0).BackColor = Color.Orange
End If
End Sub
Private Sub dashboardViewer1_DashboardItemBeforeControlDisposed(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As DashboardItemControlEventArgs) Handles dashboardViewer1.DashboardItemBeforeControlDisposed
If e.DashboardItemName = "pivotDashboardItem1" Then
Dim pivotGridControl As PivotGridControl = e.PivotGridControl
RemoveHandler pivotGridControl.CustomCellValue, AddressOf pivotGridControl_CustomCellValue
End If
End Sub
End Class
End Namespace