TcxCustomGridView.PatternGridView Property

Returns the View whose copy (clone) is the current View.

Declaration

property PatternGridView: TcxCustomGridView read;

Property Value

Type
TcxCustomGridView

Remarks

The ParentGridView property represents a “pattern“ View for the current View. “Pattern” Views are not displayed at runtime, they only provide settings for creating “clone” Views.

Master-detail data representation requires the presence of two levels assigned to master and detail Views respectively, connected to data sets linked by field values (see the Master-Detail topic for details). Each time a master row gets expanded, the corresponding portion of the detail data set is displayed. A View representing that portion is called a “clone” View. All “clone” Views copy the settings from a View corresponding to the detail hierarchy level. That View is called a “pattern” and represents a template for all detail Views appearing when the master rows are expanded.