CardView.CustomDrawCardField Event

Enables you to custom paint card fields.

Namespace: DevExpress.XtraGrid.Views.Card

Assembly: DevExpress.XtraGrid.v19.1.dll

Declaration

C#

[DXCategory("CustomDraw")]
public event RowCellCustomDrawEventHandler CustomDrawCardField

VB.NET

<DXCategory("CustomDraw")>
Public Event CustomDrawCardField As RowCellCustomDrawEventHandler

Event Data

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

Property	Description
Appearance	Gets the painted element’s appearance settings. Inherited from CustomDrawEventArgs.
Bounds	Returns a value specifying limits for the drawing area. Inherited from CustomDrawEventArgs.
Cache	Provides methods to paint on drawing surfaces in GDI+ and DirectX modes. See DirectX hardware acceleration to learn more. Inherited from CustomDrawEventArgs.
Cell	Provides information on the painted cell.
CellValue	Gets the painted value or display text (depending on the event).
Column	Gets the column whose element is being painted.
DisplayText	Gets or sets the painted element’s display text.
Graphics	A GDI+ drawing surface. Use the CustomDrawEventArgs.Cache property instead if you enable the DirectX hardware acceleration. Inherited from CustomDrawEventArgs.
Handled	Gets or sets a value specifying whether an event was handled and that the default element painting is therefore not required. Inherited from CustomDrawEventArgs.
RowHandle	Gets the handle of a painted element’s row.

The event data class exposes the following methods:

Method	Description
DefaultDraw()	Performs default painting of an element. Inherited from CustomDrawEventArgs.

Remarks

Card fields consist of captions and value cells. Therefore, the event’s CustomDrawEventArgs.Bounds parameter specifies the rectangle bounding both these elements. If you need to custom paint field captions and value cells separately, handle the CardView.CustomDrawCardFieldCaption and CardView.CustomDrawCardFieldValue events instead.

If you set the event’s CustomDrawEventArgs.Handled parameter to true, the CardView.CustomDrawCardFieldCaption and CardView.CustomDrawCardFieldValue events will not fire.

See the Custom Painting Basics and Custom Painting Scenarios topics for information on using custom draw events.

Important

Never change cell values or modify the control’s layout on this event, or any other event designed to tune the control’s appearance. Any action that causes a layout update can cause the control to malfunction.

Example

The sample code below handles the CardView.CustomDrawCardField event to custom paint fields whose GridColumn.FieldName properties are not set. Such fields are considered header fields, which precede regular data fields.

A header field’s caption is painted centered. The field value is hidden.

C#

using DevExpress.Utils;
using DevExpress.XtraGrid.Views.Base;

private void cardView1_CustomDrawCardField(object sender, RowCellCustomDrawEventArgs e) {
   if(e.Column.FieldName != "") return;
   e.Cache.FillRectangle(e.Cache.GetSolidBrush(SystemColors.Control), e.Bounds);
   e.Appearance.TextOptions.HAlignment = HorzAlignment.Center;
   e.Appearance.Font = e.Cache.GetFont(e.Appearance.Font, FontStyle.Bold);
   e.Appearance.DrawString(e.Cache, e.Column.Caption, e.Bounds);
   e.Handled = true;
}

VB.NET

Imports DevExpress.Utils
Imports DevExpress.XtraGrid.Views.Base

Private Sub CardView1_CustomDrawCardField(ByVal sender As Object, _
ByVal e As RowCellCustomDrawEventArgs) Handles CardView1.CustomDrawCardField
   If Not e.Column.FieldName = "" Then Exit Sub
   e.Cache.FillRectangle(e.Cache.GetSolidBrush(SystemColors.Control), e.Bounds)
   e.Appearance.TextOptions.HAlignment = HorzAlignment.Center
   e.Appearance.Font = e.Cache.GetFont(e.Appearance.Font, FontStyle.Bold)
   e.Appearance.DrawString(e.Cache, e.Column.Caption, e.Bounds)
   e.Handled = True
End Sub