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BaseGallery.CustomDrawItemText Event

Enables the Gallery item’s text to be painted manually.

Namespace: DevExpress.XtraBars.Ribbon.Gallery

Assembly: DevExpress.XtraBars.v24.1.dll

NuGet Package: DevExpress.Win.Navigation

Declaration

[DXCategory("Events")]
public event GalleryItemCustomDrawEventHandler CustomDrawItemText

Event Data

The CustomDrawItemText event's data class is GalleryItemCustomDrawEventArgs. The following properties provide information specific to this event:

Property Description
Bounds Gets the bounding rectangle of the Gallery item currently being painted.
Cache Gets an object which specifies the storage for the most used pens, fonts and brushes.
Gallery Gets the Gallery that contains the processed Gallery item. Inherited from GalleryItemEventArgs.
Handled Gets or sets whether an event was handled. If it was handled default painting isn’t required.
InRibbonGalleryLink For In-Ribbon galleries, gets the bar item link that displays the current gallery. Inherited from GalleryItemEventArgs.
Item Gets the Gallery item currently being processed. Inherited from GalleryItemEventArgs.
ItemInfo Gets the information which is required to paint a Gallery item.

The event data class exposes the following methods:

Method Description
DrawHtml(HtmlTemplate, DxHtmlPainterContext, Action<DxHtmlPainterArgs>) Paints the required HTML template inside an element that raised this event. The context parameter allows you to assign an object that transfers mouse events to template elements.
DrawHtml(HtmlTemplate, Action<DxHtmlPainterArgs>) Paints the required HTML template inside an element that raised this event.

Remarks

The CustomDrawItemText event is raised each time an item’s text is about to be painted. The event parameter provides all the information necessary to paint the text. Set the Handled property to true to prohibit default text painting.

Example

In this example the BaseGallery.CustomDrawItemText event is handled to manually paint the text within Gallery items.

The full source code can be found in the ‘Ribbon Simple Pad’ demo supplied with the XtraBars.

The image below shows the result:

CustomDrawItemText

using DevExpress.XtraBars.Ribbon.ViewInfo;

private void gddFont_Gallery_CustomDrawItemText(object sender, GalleryItemCustomDrawEventArgs e) {
    DevExpress.XtraBars.Ribbon.ViewInfo.GalleryItemViewInfo itemInfo = e.ItemInfo as DevExpress.XtraBars.Ribbon.ViewInfo.GalleryItemViewInfo;
    itemInfo.PaintAppearance.ItemDescriptionAppearance.Normal.DrawString(e.Cache, e.Item.Description, itemInfo.DescriptionBounds);
    AppearanceObject app = itemInfo.PaintAppearance.ItemCaptionAppearance.Normal.Clone() as AppearanceObject;
    app.Font = (Font)e.Item.Tag;
    try {
        e.Cache.DrawString(e.Item.Caption, app.Font, app.GetForeBrush(e.Cache), itemInfo.CaptionBounds);
    }
    catch { }
    e.Handled = true;
}

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