BaseGallery.CustomDrawItemText Event

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

Namespace: DevExpress.XtraBars.Ribbon.Gallery

Assembly: DevExpress.XtraBars.v19.2.dll

Declaration

C#

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

VB.NET

<DXCategory("Events")>
Public Event CustomDrawItemText As GalleryItemCustomDrawEventHandler

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.

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:

C#

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.Graphics.DrawString(e.Item.Caption, app.Font, app.GetForeBrush(e.Cache), itemInfo.CaptionBounds);
    }
    catch { }
    e.Handled = true;
}

VB.NET

Imports DevExpress.XtraBars.Ribbon.ViewInfo

Private Sub gddFont_Gallery_CustomDrawItemText(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As GalleryItemCustomDrawEventArgs) Handles gddFont.GalleryCustomDrawItemText
    Dim itemInfo As DevExpress.XtraBars.Ribbon.ViewInfo.GalleryItemViewInfo = TryCast(e.ItemInfo, DevExpress.XtraBars.Ribbon.ViewInfo.GalleryItemViewInfo)
    itemInfo.PaintAppearance.ItemDescriptionAppearance.Normal.DrawString(e.Cache, e.Item.Description, itemInfo.DescriptionBounds)
    Dim app As AppearanceObject = TryCast(itemInfo.PaintAppearance.ItemCaptionAppearance.Normal.Clone(), AppearanceObject)
    app.Font = CType(e.Item.Tag, Font)
    Try
        e.Cache.Graphics.DrawString(e.Item.Caption, app.Font, app.GetForeBrush(e.Cache), itemInfo.CaptionBounds)
    Catch
    End Try
    e.Handled = True
End Sub

Related GitHub Examples

The following code snippet (auto-collected from DevExpress Examples) contains a reference to the CustomDrawItemText event.

Note

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C#

dragdrop-items-from-one-standalone-gallerycontrol-to-another-one-extended-e3857/CS/DragDropExample/DragDropHelper.cs#L42

galleryControl2.DragDrop += OnGalleryControlDragDrop;
galleryControl1.Gallery.CustomDrawItemText += OnCustomDrawItemText;
galleryControl2.Gallery.CustomDrawItemText += OnCustomDrawItemText;

VB.NET

dragdrop-items-from-one-standalone-gallerycontrol-to-another-one-extended-e3857/VB/DragDropExample/DragDropHelper.vb#L43

AddHandler galleryControl2.DragDrop, AddressOf OnGalleryControlDragDrop
AddHandler galleryControl1.Gallery.CustomDrawItemText, AddressOf OnCustomDrawItemText
AddHandler galleryControl2.Gallery.CustomDrawItemText, AddressOf OnCustomDrawItemText