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Tip: Always show selection

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Topic: Tip: Always show selection

Posted By: znakeeye
Subject: Tip: Always show selection
Date Posted: 02 July 2008 at 6:39pm

I know many of us want the selection to be visible even when the report control loses focus. It turns out this is quite tricky to accomplish, but I found a quite simple solution:

Derive a custom class from CXTPReportPaintManager and override RefreshMetrics:

virtual void RefreshMetrics()
{
CXTPReportPaintManager::RefreshMetrics();

m_clrSelectedRowText = m_clrHighlightText;
m_clrSelectedRow = m_clrHighlight;
}

Replies:

Posted By: jshan
Date Posted: 02 July 2008 at 10:00pm

znakeeye wrote:

I know many of us want the selection to be visible even when the report control loses focus. It turns out this is quite tricky to accomplish, but I found a quite simple solution:

Derive a custom class from CXTPReportPaintManager and override RefreshMetrics:

virtual void RefreshMetrics()
{
CXTPReportPaintManager::RefreshMetrics();

m_clrSelectedRowText = m_clrHighlightText;
m_clrSelectedRow = m_clrHighlight;
}

good tip.

thanks znakeeye !

Posted By: SuperMario
Date Posted: 03 July 2008 at 9:34am

Is this what you are talking about?

GetTargetReport()->GetPaintManager()->m_bHideSelection = FALSE;

Posted By: SuperMario
Date Posted: 03 July 2008 at 9:43am

Also we added the above 2 properties for this exact purpose.

From COM help file:

"Can be useful when the report loses focus and you do not want the color of the focused row to change."

Posted By: znakeeye
Date Posted: 04 July 2008 at 1:03am

Nope, it doesn't work. In fact, m_bHideSelection does the exact opposite:

if (GetControl()->HasFocus())
{
   pItemMetrics->clrForeground = pPaintManager->m_clrHighlightText;
   pItemMetrics->clrBackground = pPaintManager->m_clrHighlight;
}
else if (!pPaintManager->m_bHideSelection)
{

pItemMetrics->clrForeground = pPaintManager->m_clrSelectedRowText;
pItemMetrics->clrBackground = pPaintManager->m_clrSelectedRow;
}

The correct solution is quite obvious:

if (!pPaintManager->m_bHideSelection || GetControl()->HasFocus())
{
pItemMetrics->clrForeground = pPaintManager->m_clrHighlightText;
pItemMetrics->clrBackground = pPaintManager->m_clrHighlight;
}