Embed Any Control within WinGrid Cell using ControlContainerEditor Object

Before You Begin

WinControlContainerEditor™ enables you to embed any control within any Ultimate UI for Windows Forms controls that support embeddable editors. You can embed two controls, one used for rendering and the other used for editing by using the RenderingControl and EditingControl property settings. The rendering control renders the underlying value or text of the object it is attached to (e.g., WinGrid™ cells, WinTree™ nodes, etc). The editing control provides editing ability for the object it is attached to.

Note	Note The Rendering control will be drawn to a Bitmap. Hence any control used as the Rendering control must support the DrawToBitmap method.

What you will Accomplish

This topic shows you how a standard Microsoft® .NET NumericUpDown and WinGauge™ controls are embedded within a WinGrid cell as the Editing and Rendering controls by using the ControlContainerEditor Object. Both the rendering and editing controls must have a single property (e.g. Text or Value property) that can be used for the value of the UltraGridCell object. For more information and requisites about using ControlContainerEditor, please see the Overview of ControlContainerEditor Object topic. Since the WinGauge control does not have a Value or Text property, you will have to create a class that inherits from the ControlContainerEditor class and override the RendererValue property so that you can pass whatever value to and from the WinGauge control.

Follow These Steps

Drag and drop an UltraGrid, UltraGauge, and.NET NumericUpDown controls from Visual Studio® Toolbox onto your form.
Bind the UltraGrid control to the Products DataTable of Northwind database.
Create a class named Editor that inherits from the ControlContainerEditor class. The ControlContainerEditor class can be found in the Infragistics.Win.UltraWinEditors namespace.
Place the following using/imports directives in your Form object’s code-behind and within the Editor class code file so you don’t need to always type out a member’s fully qualified name.

In Visual Basic:

Imports System.Windows.Forms
Imports Infragistics.Win.UltraWinEditors
Imports Infragistics.UltraGauge.Resources
Imports Infragistics.Win.UltraWinGauge

In C#:

using System.Windows.Forms;
using Infragistics.Win.UltraWinEditors;
using Infragistics.UltraGauge.Resources;
using Infragistics.Win.UltraWinGauge;

Add the following members to the Editor class.

In Visual Basic:

#Region "Private Members"
Private gauge As UltraGauge
Private numericUpDown As NumericUpDown
Private marker As LinearGaugeBarMarker
#End Region

In C#:

#region Private Members
private UltraGauge gauge;
private NumericUpDown numericUpDown;
LinearGaugeBarMarker marker;
#endregion

Delete the default constructor from the Editor class and write the following code.

In Visual Basic:

#Region "Constructor"
Public Sub New(ByVal gauge As UltraGauge, ByVal numericUpDown As NumericUpDown)
    Me.gauge = gauge
    Me.numericUpDown = numericUpDown
    ' Set the Gauge control as the Rendering control
    Me.RenderingControl = gauge
    '  Set the NumericUpDown control as the Editing control
    Me.EditingControl = numericUpDown
    ' Get a reference to the gauge control's marker so we can easily set the value for it.
    Dim linearGauge As LinearGauge = DirectCast(gauge.Gauges(0), LinearGauge)
    Dim scale As LinearGaugeScale = DirectCast(linearGauge.Scales(0), LinearGaugeScale)
    Me.marker = DirectCast(scale.Markers(0), LinearGaugeBarMarker)
End Sub
#End Region

In C#:

        #region Constructor
        public Editor(UltraGauge gauge, NumericUpDown numericUpDown)
        {
            this.gauge = gauge;
            this.numericUpDown = numericUpDown;
            // Set the Gauge control as the Rendering control
            this.RenderingControl = gauge;
            // Set the NumericUpDown control as the Editing control
            this.EditingControl = numericUpDown;
           // Get a reference to the gauge control's marker so we can easily set the value for it.
            LinearGauge linearGauge = (LinearGauge)gauge.Gauges[0];
            LinearGaugeScale scale = (LinearGaugeScale)linearGauge.Scales[0];
            this.marker = (LinearGaugeBarMarker)scale.Markers[0];
        }
        #endregion

Override the ControlContainerEditor class RendererValue property to get and set the LinearGaugeBarMarker object’s value.

In Visual Basic:

#Region "override RendererValue"
Protected Overloads Overrides Property RendererValue() As Object
    Get
        Return Me.marker.Value
    End Get
    Set(ByVal value As Object)
        Me.marker.Value = value
    End Set
End Property
#End Region

In C#:

#region override RendererValue
        protected override object RendererValue
        {
            get
            {
                return this.marker.Value;
            }
            set
            {
                this.marker.Value = value;
            }
        }
        #endregion

The following code assigns the Editor class that specifies the Rendering and Editing controls, to the UnitsInStock column of UltraGrid. Write the code in UltraGrid control’s IntializeLayout event.

In Visual Basic:

Dim editor As New Editor(Me.ultraGauge1, Me.numericUpDown1)
e.Layout.Bands(0).Columns("UnitsInStock").Editor = editor

In C#:

Editor editor = new Editor(this.ultraGauge1, this.numericUpDown1);
e.Layout.Bands[0].Columns["UnitsInStock"].Editor = editor;

The following screenshot shows a WinGrid with WinGauge embedded as the Rendering control and a NumericUpDown control embedded as the Editing control.

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Embed Any Control within WinGrid Cell using ControlContainerEditor Object