Gridview borders

[cogier]

Can anybody tell me how to get Gridview cell borders? The help says

This class defines constants used by the Border property of many controls. Moreover, since Gambas 3.7, this class is creatable, and allows to describe the border of a GridView cell or row.

I have tried: -

GridViewCmdSearch.Row[0] = Border.Plain

GridViewCmdSearch.Row[0].Border = Border.Plain

GridViewCmdSearch[0,0].Border = Border.Plain

GridViewCmdSearch[0, 0].Border("margin:4;width:4;left-style:none;left-margin:0;left-width:0;top-right-radius:24;right-color:green")

I've missed something, but what?

[stevedee]

Hi cogier, this is one of those cases where I find Gambas documentation pretty useless.

However, I discovered that this format seems to work;

GridView1[1, 1].Border = New Border("style:double;color:Red")

Unless something is obvious to beginners (& me), there needs to be a working example + a plain English {other languages are also available} description of how it works.

[cogier]

Well done stevedee. Once you have done it and press[F2] you, belatedly, get: -

border.png (263.1 KiB) Viewed 17132 times

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Not that I know anything about 'CSS-like syntax'

So my code is now: -

GridViewCmdSearch[0, 0].Border = New Border("style:plain")

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[stevedee]

Its certainly not a complete answer, and I've just looked at it again and found that using a Static Function:-

GridView1[1, 1].Border = Border("style:double;color:Red")

...works just as well.

Also, if you type:-

GridView1[1, 1].Border. 

...you are offered a list of possible Properties. So it looks like it should be possible to do something like this:-

GridView1[1, 1].Border.BottomColor = Color.Red

...but this reports a 'Null Object' error, because in this context, Border is a Property, not a Class.

It really shouldn't be this difficult.

[stevedee]

OK try this:-

Public Sub Form_Open()
Dim hBorder As Border

hBorder = New Border
'specify cell border
With hBorder
  .Width = 5
  .Color = Color.Red
  .BottomStyle = Border.Raised
  .BottomColor = Color.DarkBlue
  .TopColor = Color.Green
End With

GridView1.Columns.Count = 3
GridView1.Rows.Count = 4
GridView1.Header = GridView1.Both
GridView1.Columns.Width = 150
GridView1.Rows[1].Height = 50
GridView1[0, 1].Text = "jornmo"
GridView1[1, 1].Text = "cogier"
GridView1[2, 1].Text = "stevedee"

GridView1.Border = True   'enable control border
GridView1[1, 1].Border = hBorder    'apply cell border

End

[jornmo]

The object is useful if you want to use the border in several places.

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[cogier]

I did a bit of digging into CSS syntax and came up with this modification to sevedee's code.

hTimer As Timer
siCount As Short

Public Sub Form_Open()
Dim hBorder As Border

hTimer = New Timer As "Timer1"
hTimer.start

hBorder = New Border
'specify cell border
With hBorder
  .Width = 5
  .Color = Color.Red
  .BottomStyle = Border.Raised
  .BottomColor = Color.DarkBlue
  .TopColor = Color.Green
End With

GridView1.Columns.Count = 3
GridView1.Rows.Count = 6
GridView1.Header = GridView1.Both 'Interesting that "GridView1" works as well as "GridView"
GridView1.Columns.Width = 150
GridView1.Rows[1].Height = 50
GridView1[0, 1].Text = "jornmo"
GridView1[1, 1].Text = "cogier"
GridView1[2, 1].Text = "stevedee"
GridView1[5, 1].Text = "Hello world!"
GridView1[5, 1].Alignment = Align.Center
GridView1.Grid = False
GridView1.Border = True   'enable control border
GridView1[1, 1].Border = hBorder    'apply cell border

End

Public Sub Timer1_Timer()
Dim sBor As String[] = ["style:", "none ", "plain "]
Dim sDer As String[] = ["02111", "01211", "01121", "01112", "021115", "02211", "02221", "02222"]
Dim siCounter As Short
Dim sTemp As String

For siCounter = 1 To 5
  sTemp &= sBor[Mid(sDer[siCount], sicounter, 1)]
Next

If siCount = sDer.Max Then GridView1[5, 1].Font.Bold = True Else GridView1[5, 1].Font.Bold = False

GridView1[5, 1].border = New Border(sTemp)

Inc siCount
If siCount = sDer.Count Then siCount = 0

End

[Technopeasant]

Does this only work for gridview borders or can you change the colour and style on other controls?

[stevedee]

Does this only work for gridview borders or can you change the colour and style on other controls?

It looks like it only works with GridView controls. The border property on most controls just turns it on/off, and it wont accept a bunch of style properties.

However, did you just want to create a simple border like this?

Border.png (9.26 KiB) Viewed 14110 times

[Technopeasant]

I wanted to be able to change the colour and size of the borders of my controls, but I might just have to add my own drawing code.