RepositoryItemGridLookUpEdit Class
Contains settings specific to the GridLookUpEdit control.
Namespace: DevExpress.XtraEditors.Repository
Assembly: DevExpress.XtraGrid.v19.1.dll
Declaration
[RepositoryItemLookUpEditBase.LookupEditCustomBindingProperties("GridLookUpEdit")]
[ToolboxBitmap(typeof(ToolboxIconsRootNS), "GridLookUpEdit")]
public class RepositoryItemGridLookUpEdit :
RepositoryItemGridLookUpEditBaseRelated API Members
The following members return RepositoryItemGridLookUpEdit objects:
Remarks
The RepositoryItemLookUpEdit class contains settings specific to the GridLookUpEdit control. You can access these settings via the editor’s GridLookUpEdit.Properties object. See the GridLookUpEdit topic for details on the control.
You need to create repository items as standalone objects only to specify inplace editors for container controls (such as the XtraGrid, XtraTreeList, etc).
Note
The GridLookUpEdit and SearchLookUpEdit controls do not have a connection to their underlying data sources while their dropdown windows are closed. So in this instance it is not possible to access the underlying data or a grid’s calculated data using methods provided by the embedded Grid Control and its View. You can use these methods only when the controls’ dropdown windows are open.
While the dropdown windows are closed, you can access the underlying data using methods provided by the underlying data source.
Example
The following example demonstrates how to create and customize a GridLookUpEdit control at runtime.
In the example, a lookup editor will be used to edit the values of the “ProductID” field in the “Order Details” table (NWind database). It must display a list of the available products in the dropdown, which are stored in the “Products” table in the NWind database. By selecting a row from the dropdown an end-user will change the current order’s product. Also a data navigator will be created that will assist an end-user to navigate through the “Order Details” table.
To implement the required functionality the following key properties of the lookup editor must be set:
- The editor’s BaseEdit.EditValue property is bound to the “ProductID” field in the “Order Details” table via the DataBindings property.
- The editor’s RepositoryItemLookUpEditBase.DataSource property is set to a DataView object which contains rows from the “Products” table in the NWind database.
- The editor’s RepositoryItemLookUpEditBase.ValueMember property is set to the “ProductID” field in the “Products” table. This field’s value must match the editor’s edit value, and so the “ProductID” field in the “Order Details” table.
- The editor’s RepositoryItemLookUpEditBase.DisplayMember property is set to the “ProductName” field in the “Products” table. This identifies the field in the DataSource whose values match the editor’s display text.
- Two columns are created within the underlying View via the ColumnView.Columns property. These will display values from the “ProductID” and “ProductName” fields in the dropdown data source.
The result of the example is shown in the following image:
using DevExpress.XtraEditors;
using DevExpress.XtraGrid.Columns;
using System.Data.OleDb;
// A lookup editor created at runtime.
GridLookUpEdit gridLookup;
// A navigator control to navigate the "Order Details" table.
DataNavigator dataNav;
// DataView for the "Order Details" table.
DataView dvMain;
// DataView for the "Products" table.
DataView dvDropDown;
//...
private void Form1_Load(object sender, System.EventArgs e) {
gridLookup = new GridLookUpEdit();
gridLookup.Bounds = new Rectangle(10, 40, 200, 20);
this.Controls.Add(gridLookup);
dataNav = new DataNavigator();
dataNav.Bounds = new Rectangle(10, 10, 250, 20);
this.Controls.Add(dataNav);
InitData();
InitLookUp();
dataNav.DataSource = dvMain;
}
private void InitData() {
// Dataset to provide data from the database
DataSet ds = new DataSet();
string connestionString =
"Provider=Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0;Data Source=C:\\DB\\nwind.mdb";
// Connect to the "Order Details" table
System.Data.OleDb.OleDbDataAdapter dbAdapter =
new OleDbDataAdapter("SELECT * FROM [Order Details]", connestionString);
// Load data from the "Order Details" table to the dataset
dbAdapter.Fill(ds, "Order Details");
// Connect to the "Products" table
dbAdapter = new OleDbDataAdapter("SELECT * FROM Products", connestionString);
// Load data from the "Products" table into the dataset
dbAdapter.Fill(ds, "Products");
DataViewManager dvm = new DataViewManager(ds);
dvMain = dvm.CreateDataView(ds.Tables["Order Details"]);
dvDropDown = dvm.CreateDataView(ds.Tables["Products"]);
}
private void InitLookUp() {
// Bind the edit value to the ProductID field of the "Order Details" table;
// the edit value matches the value of the ValueMember field.
gridLookup.DataBindings.Add("EditValue", dvMain, "ProductID");
// Prevent columns from being automatically created when a data source is assigned.
gridLookup.Properties.PopupView.OptionsBehavior.AutoPopulateColumns = false;
// The data source for the dropdown rows
gridLookup.Properties.DataSource = dvDropDown;
// The field for the editor's display text.
gridLookup.Properties.DisplayMember = "ProductName";
// The field matching the edit value.
gridLookup.Properties.ValueMember = "ProductID";
// Add two columns in the dropdown:
// A column to display the values of the ProductID field;
GridColumn col1 = gridLookup.Properties.PopupView.Columns.AddField("ProductID");
col1.VisibleIndex = 0;
col1.Caption = "Product ID";
// A column to display the values of the ProductName field.
GridColumn col2 = gridLookup.Properties.PopupView.Columns.AddField("ProductName");
col2.VisibleIndex = 1;
col2.Caption = "Product Name";
// Set column widths according to their contents.
gridLookup.Properties.PopupView.BestFitColumns();
// Specify the total dropdown width.
gridLookup.Properties.PopupFormWidth = 300;
}