Highlighting SubItems

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I use 2 reports: 1st report allows focusing on (single) subitems... then the 2nd report shows the details of the item selected in the 1st.

I need to focus the user's attention on the ITEM not on the ROW (plus I need same coloring when the 1st control has no focus)

However I can't find the setting for this in the paintmanager, which is limited to highlighting ROWS and doesn't bother with items.
(other than NOT highlighting the item, and highlighting the ROW, which is exactly the opposite of what I need (and expect!)

Do I need to resort to one of the event handlers and implement this all by my lonely self, of did I overlook the obvious?

Any ideas?

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keepITcool Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Groupie Joined: 08 April 2009 Status: Offline Points: 36	Post Options Post Reply Quote keepITcool Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Topic: Highlighting SubItems Posted: 09 May 2009 at 7:48am
	I use 2 reports: 1st report allows focusing on (single) subitems... then the 2nd report shows the details of the item selected in the 1st. I need to focus the user's attention on the ITEM not on the ROW (plus I need same coloring when the 1st control has no focus) However I can't find the setting for this in the paintmanager, which is limited to highlighting ROWS and doesn't bother with items. (other than NOT highlighting the item, and highlighting the ROW, which is exactly the opposite of what I need (and expect!) Do I need to resort to one of the event handlers and implement this all by my lonely self, of did I overlook the obvious? Any ideas?
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Aaron Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Senior Member Joined: 29 January 2008 Status: Offline Points: 2192	Post Options Post Reply Quote Aaron Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 09 May 2009 at 9:36am
	Hi, You need: wndReportControl.FocusSubItems = True wndReportControl.SelectionEnable = True it will select entire row (blue) and the item you click will stay white
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jpbro Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Senior Member Joined: 12 January 2007 Status: Offline Points: 1355	Post Options Post Reply Quote jpbro Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 09 May 2009 at 10:13am
	If I understand correctly, I think you want the inverse of the situation that Aaron describes (e.g. the item/cell will be blue and the rest of the row will be white). I don't think there is a property for this (although InvertHighlight might be a useful PaintManager property). I have found a bit of a hack to get the desired results using the BeforeDrawRow event. Basically, you store the highligh colors at startup and the set them the the non-highlight background & foreground colors. Then, in the BeforeDrawRow event, you can set the Metrics Backcolor and Forecolor properties to the highlighted colors that you stored earlier. Here's a sample: uploads/20090509_101007_RcHighlightCell.zip I'm not 100% sure why the code works though, as I would have expected changing the Metrics backcolor to set the backcolor for the whole row (as it does if you change the Font.Bold property for example), but it does seem to only set the currently selected item/cell colors. Screenshot: If this is not what you require, perhaps you could post a mockup of what you want the RC to look like?
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keepITcool Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Groupie Joined: 08 April 2009 Status: Offline Points: 36	Post Options Post Reply Quote keepITcool Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 09 May 2009 at 2:27pm
	@jpbro: Your example screenshot it exactly what i meant. nice and short too... thx!

Aaron Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Senior Member Joined: 29 January 2008 Status: Offline Points: 2192	Post Options Post Reply Quote Aaron Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 09 May 2009 at 3:03pm
	Hi Jason, You would expect that all items would be painted same color, but I think after BeforeDrawRow event, the RC repaints the selected row... Same way as you would display a MsgBox, the selected row becomes grayed and after the ReportControl has focus again the selected row will be blue again. Well it works, that's important
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