We have a grid in our applications showing varying numbers of items depending on the status of our instrumentation. The space taken by this grid is fixed, and often there are not enough records to fill the whole vertical span of the grid. We would like the column separators and the row colour alteration to continue to the bottom of the available space even if there aren't enough records to fill those rows, but we don't want to simply add blank records to the grid since it can affect how the data appears with the columns are sorted. Is there any built in way to accomplish this, or will we have to code the behaviour in ourselves?
Hello Tyler,
Thank you for your post.
I have been investigating you requirements. Currently the XamDataGrid control does not support built-in functionalities that you try to achieve.
What I can suggest about the functionality for columns separator is to create style for LabelPresenter. In it you can use EventSetter to handle the Loaded event. Inside in the event handler of Loaded you can handle the LayoutUpdated event of LabelPresenter. By using LabelPresenter and our Utilities class you can get the Grid that is child of XamDataGrid and add to it Canvas panel that contains Rectangle. To set the position of the Rectangle you can use SetTop and SetLeft methods of Canvas panel. To determine how much should be the offset of left side for each columns separator, you can use the TranslatePoint method of LabelPresenter. From the following link you can read more details about it: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.windows.uielement.translatepoint%28v=vs.110%29.aspx . I created short sample application based on your scenario to show you how you can implement this functionality.
About the functionality for alternating records to fill the whole vertical available space, if you want this functionality to be implemented for a future version of the XamDataGrid I can suggest submitting a new Product Idea, also you can include and functionality for the column separator.
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I am just checking if there is anything else I can do for you.
Hi Zhivko,
Thanks for the suggestion and the sample project. We're all good here for now.
Thank you for your reply.
If you require any further assistance, please do not hesitate to ask.