DataGridView.CellContentClick

Question

DataGridView.CellContentClick is not firing if I mouse click a DataGridViewCheckBoxCell very fast. How can I solve this? I need to know when CheckBox's check state changes

Answer 1

Regardless of how fast the user clicks in the checkbox cell, the value won't change from true to false or vise versa until they click out of that row, and the DataGridView goes out of edit mode.

What I've done in the past, is set that column to ReadOnly = true. Then, in the CellContentClick event handler, if that column was clicked, I manually flipped the bool like this:

bool b = (bool)this.dataGridView1.Rows[e.RowIndex].Cells[e.ColumnIndex].Value;
this.dataGridView1.Rows[e.RowIndex].Cells[e.ColumnIndex].Value = !b;

Then, you can do your logic at this point that you would normally do for the CheckChanged.

Answer 2

Hello,

Try handling the CellMouseUp event. You can check which colum the MouseUp event occurred in to see if it is your checkbox column. You can also find out if it is in edit mode and end the edit mode programmatically, which in turn will fire the CellValueChanged event.

In the example below, I have a datagridview with two colums. The first is a textbox column and the second is a checkbox column. When the checkbox changes, the first column wil reflect its check state, without having to move from the row or cell.

public partial class Form1 : Form
{
    public Form1()
    {
        InitializeComponent();
        dataGridView1.Rows.Add("False", false);
        dataGridView1.Rows.Add("True", true);


    }

    private void dataGridView1_CellMouseUp(object sender, DataGridViewCellMouseEventArgs e)
    {
        if (e.ColumnIndex == 1 && e.RowIndex >-1 && dataGridView1.Rows[e.RowIndex].Cells[1].IsInEditMode)
        {
            dataGridView1.EndEdit();
        }
    }

    private void dataGridView1_CellValueChanged(object sender, DataGridViewCellEventArgs e)
    {
        if (e.RowIndex != -1)
        {
            dataGridView1.Rows[e.RowIndex].Cells[0].Value =
               dataGridView1.Rows[e.RowIndex].Cells[e.ColumnIndex].Value.ToString(); 
        }

    }
}

HTH

Colby Africa

Answer 3

@BFree Good answer dude.. this trick worked