ReportDesignTool.ShowDesignerDialog(UserLookAndFeel, DesignDockPanelType) Method
Invokes the standard End-User Report Designer form modally using the specified look and feel settings and with the specified design panels hidden.
Namespace: DevExpress.XtraReports.UI
Assembly: DevExpress.XtraReports.v24.1.Extensions.dll
NuGet Package: DevExpress.Win.Reporting
Declaration
public void ShowDesignerDialog(
UserLookAndFeel lookAndFeel,
DesignDockPanelType hiddenPanels
)Parameters
| Name | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| lookAndFeel | UserLookAndFeel | A UserLookAndFeel object which specifies the look and feel settings applied to the Preview Form. |
| hiddenPanels | DesignDockPanelType | A DesignDockPanelType enumeration value identifying the End-User Designer dock panels to be hidden. |
Remarks
Use the ShowDesignerDialog method to invoke the XRDesignForm form, and show a report in a standard End-User Report Designer form.
To access the XRDesignForm object of a ReportDesignTool, use the ReportDesignTool.DesignForm property.
After the End-User Designer form has been loaded for the current report, its XtraReport.DesignerLoaded event is raised.
Note that when an end-user edits a report in the End-User Designer, the instance of a report, for which the ShowDesignerDialog method was called, is also changing. So, a report instance is changed even if an end-user chooses the No button in the “Report has been changed” dialog, invoked when closing a report.
Therefore, if you want to reject all changes made by an end-user, you first need to clone a report instance to a temporary object, and then restore a report from it.
To invoke the ribbon-based End-User Report Designer form for a report, call the ReportDesignTool.ShowRibbonDesignerDialog method.
Example
This example demonstrates how to run the standard End-User Designer form for a particular report, using the ReportDesignTool, via either the ReportDesignTool.ShowDesigner or ReportDesignTool.ShowDesignerDialog methods.
Note that in this example, the End-User Designer is invoked two times: the first time modally, and the second time with the Properties window and Report Explorer windows being hidden. You can pass the list of windows to be hidden to the overloaded method as a parameter.
For this example to work correctly, the XtraReport1 class derived from the XtraReport class should exist in the example application.
using System;
using System.Windows.Forms;
using DevExpress.LookAndFeel;
using DevExpress.XtraReports.UI;
using DevExpress.XtraReports.UserDesigner;
// ...
private void button1_Click(object sender, EventArgs e) {
ReportDesignTool dt = new ReportDesignTool(new XtraReport1());
// Invoke the standard End-User Designer form, modally.
dt.ShowDesignerDialog();
// Invoke the standard End-User Designer form
// without the PropertyGrid and ReportExplorer panels.
dt.ShowDesigner(UserLookAndFeel.Default, DesignDockPanelType.PropertyGrid |
DesignDockPanelType.ReportExplorer);
}