Datagrid formating

[donnacha]

Hi folks,

I am trying to display data in a datagrid that is too wide for the datagrid column. The datagrid takes up the full screen so I can't make it wider. Does anybody know how to make the datagrid text box a multi-line text box. I have tried a few things with table styles but nothing has worked yet.

 

 

Any Ideas.:confused:

[archer_coal]

RE datagrid

 

This is all ive found thus far on that subject

 

add Imports System.Windows.Forms.DataGridTextBox

 

'create you custom colums and tablestyles and add
Dim theCol As DataGridTextBoxColumn
       theCol.TextBox.Multiline = True

 

Hope this helps

[donnacha]

Thanks but I have already tried that plus

theCol.TextBox.WordWrap= True

 

but It still doesn't work

 

this is really a pain, ther must be some way to do it, I have searched everywhere for possible examples.

 

Does anybody know of an alternative to a datagrid that would allow me to do this.

 

Tahks again:-\

[spebola]

This is just a suggestion (I haven't tried it). Try adding the following after the multiline statement.

 

dg.PreferredRowHeight = theCol.TextBox.Height

[archer_coal]

RE

 

you could try a listbox

binding to a listbox is tricky tho with the INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE routines

[donnacha]

I would prefer to use a datagrid as I would have to learn the listbox and I have also got buttons in my grids.

I have long since tried the preferred height, but like the others to no avail. The only thing i get is taht when I click in the cell I get to see all the contents. Thsi si not sufficent as I need to be able to print it as well.

 

I have an example aplication that uses a 3rd party component but I do not want to use 3rd party components if at all possible, but this does show me that it does work, all I need now is to figure out how they did it.

 

Any further ideas.