ColumnView.CustomColumnDisplayText Event

Allows you to replace cell display texts (for cells with textbox-based editors), group row texts, and filter menu item captions.

Namespace: DevExpress.XtraGrid.Views.Base

Assembly: DevExpress.XtraGrid.v24.1.dll

NuGet Packages: DevExpress.Win.Grid, DevExpress.Win.Navigation

Declaration

C#

[DXCategory("Data")]
public event CustomColumnDisplayTextEventHandler CustomColumnDisplayText

VB.NET

<DXCategory("Data")>
Public Event CustomColumnDisplayText As CustomColumnDisplayTextEventHandler

Event Data

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

Property	Description
Column	Gets the column that contains the cell currently being processed.
DisplayText	Gets or sets the display text for the cell currently being processed.
GroupRowHandle	Gets the handle of the currently processed group row. Returns the GridControl.InvalidRowHandle value if the CustomColumnDisplayText event is not called for a group row.
IsForFilter	Gets a value that specifies whether the CustomColumnDisplayText event is raised for the Filter Panel.
IsForGroupRow	Returns whether the CustomColumnDisplayText event is called to get the display text of a column value displayed within a group row.
ListSourceRowIndex	Gets the index in the data source of the row which contains the cell currently being processed.
Value	Gets the edit value of the cell currently being processed.

Remarks

To modify the displayed text, change the e.DisplayText parameter value. The following code illustrates how to add units to the “Distance” cell values. See the end of this article for more examples.

C#

private void gridView1_CustomColumnDisplayText(object sender, CustomColumnDisplayTextEventArgs e) {
    if (e.Column.FieldName == "Distance") {
        e.DisplayText = ((int)e.Value).ToString() + " mil.";
    }
}

VB.NET

Imports System

Private Sub gridView1_CustomColumnDisplayText(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As CustomColumnDisplayTextEventArgs)
    If e.Column.FieldName = "Distance" Then
        e.DisplayText = CInt(Math.Truncate(e.Value)).ToString() & " mil."
    End If
End Sub

To obtain the currently processed row, use the e.ListSourceRowIndex property. Note that it returns the same value for both Auto Filter and New Item rows. If you need to show custom strings in the cells of these rows, use the GridView.CustomDrawCell event instead.

C#

private void Gv_CustomDrawCell(object sender, XtraGrid.Views.Base.RowCellCustomDrawEventArgs e)
{
    if (e.RowHandle == GridControl.AutoFilterRowHandle)
        e.DisplayText = "AutoFilterRow";
    if (e.RowHandle == GridControl.NewItemRowHandle)
        e.DisplayText = "NewItemRow";
}

VB.NET

Private Sub Gv_CustomDrawCell(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As XtraGrid.Views.Base.RowCellCustomDrawEventArgs)
    If e.RowHandle = GridControl.AutoFilterRowHandle Then
        e.DisplayText = "AutoFilterRow"
    End If
    If e.RowHandle = GridControl.NewItemRowHandle Then
        e.DisplayText = "NewItemRow"
    End If
End Sub

Modify group row captions

Read the e.IsForGroupRow event parameter to identify whether the event was raised for a group row. In the code sample below, the CustomColumnDisplayText event handler adds the item counter to Kanban Board group captions.

C#

tileView1.CustomColumnDisplayText += TileView1_CustomColumnDisplayText;

private void TileView1_CustomColumnDisplayText(object sender, CustomColumnDisplayTextEventArgs e) {
    if (e.IsForGroupRow) {
        e.DisplayText = string.Format("{0} ({1})", e.DisplayText, CalcGroupCount(e.GroupRowHandle));
    }
}

int CalcGroupCount(int groupRowHandle) {
    int groupIndex = Math.Abs(groupRowHandle) - 1;
    return tileView1.DataController.GroupInfo[groupIndex].ChildControllerRowCount;
}

VB.NET

AddHandler tileView1.CustomColumnDisplayText, AddressOf TileView1_CustomColumnDisplayText

Private Sub TileView1_CustomColumnDisplayText(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As CustomColumnDisplayTextEventArgs)
    If e.IsForGroupRow Then
        e.DisplayText = String.Format("{0} ({1})", e.DisplayText, CalcGroupCount(e.GroupRowHandle))
    End If
End Sub

Private Function CalcGroupCount(ByVal groupRowHandle As Integer) As Integer
    Dim groupIndex As Integer = Math.Abs(groupRowHandle) - 1
    Return tileView1.DataController.GroupInfo(groupIndex).ChildControllerRowCount
End Function

Modify filter menu item captions

If the event’s ListSourceRowIndex parameter returns the value of the static GridControl.InvalidRowHandle field, the event was raised for a filter menu item. Use the e.DisplayText property to rename filter items in drop-down filter menus.

C#

private void gridView1_CustomColumnDisplayText(object sender, DevExpress.XtraGrid.Views.Base.CustomColumnDisplayTextEventArgs e) {
    if (e.Column.FieldName == "Distance" && e.ListSourceRowIndex == GridControl.InvalidRowHandle) {
        //change the e.DisplayText here
    }
}

VB.NET

Private Sub gridView1_CustomColumnDisplayText(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As DevExpress.XtraGrid.Views.Base.CustomColumnDisplayTextEventArgs)
    If e.Column.FieldName = "Distance" AndAlso e.ListSourceRowIndex = GridControl.InvalidRowHandle Then
        'change the e.DisplayText here
    End If
End Sub

Handle the ColumnView.FilterPopupExcelData event to customize filter items in Excel style pop-up filter menus (ColumnViewOptionsFilter.ColumnFilterPopupMode property).

Important notes

• When you change cell display texts, underlying values remain unchanged. Data Grid uses these data-layer values to filter and sort records. For that reason, if you handle the CustomColumnDisplayText event, you may also want to switch the GridColumn.SortMode and GridColumn.FilterMode to DisplayText. Note that in this case, Data Grid will work with string values instead of real data source objects.

• Instead of replacing cell display texts on the CustomColumnDisplayText event, you can create an unbound column and handle the ColumnView.CustomUnboundColumnData event to supply this column with values. Often, this is a better option since it does not affect Grid filters, and does not force you to change SortMode and FilterMode properties.

• The CustomColumnDisplayText event does not allow you to display or modify text within cells that contain non-textbox-based editors (for example, PictureEdit, ImageEdit, CheckEdit, RadioGroup, ToggleSwitch, SparklineEdit).

Example 2

The following example demonstrates how to handle the ColumnView.CustomColumnDisplayText event to display custom display text in data cells. In the example empty strings are displayed within the “Discount” column’s cells if they contain zero values.

The result is shown below:

C#

using DevExpress.XtraGrid.Views.Base;

private void gridView1_CustomColumnDisplayText(object sender, 
CustomColumnDisplayTextEventArgs e) {
   if(e.Column.FieldName == "Discount")
      if(Convert.ToDecimal(e.Value) == 0) e.DisplayText = "";
}

VB.NET

Imports DevExpress.XtraGrid.Views.Base

Private Sub GridView1_CustomColumnDisplayText(ByVal sender As Object, _
ByVal e As CustomColumnDisplayTextEventArgs) Handles GridView1.CustomColumnDisplayText
   If e.Column.FieldName = "Discount" Then
      If e.Value = 0 Then e.DisplayText = ""
   End If
End Sub

Example 3

The following example shows how to dynamically customize the cell’s display text by handling the ColumnView.CustomColumnDisplayText event.

The grid View in the example contains the Currency Type and Price columns. If the currency type is equal to 0, the price is displayed in dollars; if it is equal to 1, it is displayed in euros.

C#

using DevExpress.XtraGrid.Views.Base;
using System.Globalization;

// The cultures used to format the values for the two different currencies.
CultureInfo ciUSA = new CultureInfo("en-US");
CultureInfo ciEUR = new CultureInfo("fr-FR", false);

private void gridView1_CustomColumnDisplayText(object sender, CustomColumnDisplayTextEventArgs e) {
    ColumnView view = sender as ColumnView;
    if (e.Column.FieldName == "Price" && e.ListSourceRowIndex != DevExpress.XtraGrid.GridControl.InvalidRowHandle)
    {
        int currencyType = (int)view.GetListSourceRowCellValue(e.ListSourceRowIndex, "CurrencyType");
        decimal price = Convert.ToDecimal(e.Value);
        switch (currencyType)
        {
            case 0: e.DisplayText = string.Format(ciUSA, "{0:c}", price); break;
            case 1: e.DisplayText = string.Format(ciEUR, "{0:c}", price); break;
        }
    }
}

VB.NET

Imports DevExpress.XtraGrid.Views.Base
Imports System.Globalization

' The cultures used to format the values for the two different currencies.
Dim ciUSA As CultureInfo = New CultureInfo("en-US")
Dim ciEUR As CultureInfo = New CultureInfo("fr-FR", False)

Private Sub GridView1_CustomColumnDisplayText(ByVal sender As Object, _
ByVal e As CustomColumnDisplayTextEventArgs) _
Handles GridView1.CustomColumnDisplayText
    Dim view As ColumnView = TryCast(sender, ColumnView)
    If e.Column.FieldName = "Price" AndAlso e.ListSourceRowIndex <> DevExpress.XtraGrid.GridControl.InvalidRowHandle Then
        Dim currencyType As Integer = CInt(view.GetListSourceRowCellValue(e.ListSourceRowIndex, "CurrencyType"))
        Dim price As Decimal = Convert.ToDecimal(e.Value)
        Select Case currencyType
            Case 0
                e.DisplayText = String.Format(ciUSA, "{0:c}", price)
                Exit Select
            Case 1
                e.DisplayText = String.Format(ciEUR, "{0:c}", price)
                Exit Select
        End Select
    End If
End Sub

Related GitHub Examples

The following code snippets (auto-collected from DevExpress Examples) contain references to the CustomColumnDisplayText event.

Note

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C#

winforms-grid-richedit-highlight-search-results/CS/E4422/Form1.cs#L18

gridView1.CustomDrawCell += new DevExpress.XtraGrid.Views.Base.RowCellCustomDrawEventHandler(OnCustomDrawCell);
gridView1.CustomColumnDisplayText += new DevExpress.XtraGrid.Views.Base.CustomColumnDisplayTextEventHandler(OnCustomColumnDisplayText);
List<Invoice> invoices = CreateData();

winforms-dashboard-custom-items/CS/TutorialsCustomItems/CustomItems/SimpleTableItem.cs#L43

view.OptionsView.ShowGroupPanel = false;
view.CustomColumnDisplayText += View_CustomColumnDisplayText;
grid.MainView = view;

winforms-dashboard-trend-line-indicators/CS/WinformsIndicator/Program.cs#L48

view.OptionsView.ShowGroupPanel = false;
view.CustomColumnDisplayText += View_CustomColumnDisplayText;
grid.MainView = view;

VB.NET

winforms-grid-richedit-highlight-search-results/VB/E4422/Form1.vb#L17

AddHandler gridView1.CustomDrawCell, New DevExpress.XtraGrid.Views.Base.RowCellCustomDrawEventHandler(AddressOf OnCustomDrawCell)
AddHandler gridView1.CustomColumnDisplayText, New DevExpress.XtraGrid.Views.Base.CustomColumnDisplayTextEventHandler(AddressOf OnCustomColumnDisplayText)
Dim invoices As List(Of Invoice) = CreateData()

winforms-dashboard-custom-items/VB/TutorialsCustomItems/CustomItems/SimpleTableItem.vb#L46

view.OptionsView.ShowGroupPanel = False
AddHandler view.CustomColumnDisplayText, AddressOf View_CustomColumnDisplayText
grid.MainView = view

winforms-dashboard-trend-line-indicators/VB/WinformsIndicator/Program.vb#L56

view.OptionsView.ShowGroupPanel = False
AddHandler view.CustomColumnDisplayText, AddressOf View_CustomColumnDisplayText
grid.MainView = view