Coloring Alternating Sorted Groups….How?

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#14068 |

Here’s my current coloring routine:

Private Sub ColorGridGroups(ByVal grid As GridControl)
Dim Toggle As Boolean = False
For Each myGroup As Group In grid.Groups
Toggle = (Toggle = False)
If Toggle Then
myGroup.BackColor = Color.Beige
End If
Next
End Sub

The problem is this: The groups are built dynamically and are getting placed into the Groups collection in the order of creation – but VISUALLY they are sorted (ascending) so the above loop does not produce the desired result which would be “Alternating group colors.”

Is there anyway to loop the Groups collection in a sorted manner? Or alternately is there a method like, GetSortedGroups that I’m not seeing?

I’m looking for a convenient method, not the grunt method which would be capturing the Title of the group into an arraylist along with their indexes, sorting the arraylist and then looping through that sort.

Thanks all!

-LK

Imported from legacy forums. Posted by Curtis (had 2344 views)

[User (Old forums)]

#14069

Try this (untested code):<pre>Dim toggle As Boolean = False
Dim row As Xceed.Grid.DataRow
Dim group As Xceed.Grid.GroupBase = Nothing
For Each row in grid.GetSortedDataRows(True) Do
If row.ParentGroup <> group Then
group = row.ParentGroup
toggle = Not toggle
If toggle Then
group.BackColor = Color.Beige
End If
End If
Next</pre>

Imported from legacy forums. Posted by Tommy (had 349 views)

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#14070

I almost half expected a reply from you Tommy 🙂 Thanks for the input, it’s appreciated.

Unfortunately, my DataRows are sorted differently than the Groups – so this would also produce unwanted results.

I think for the time, I’ll just stick to the grunt method! It’s clunky but fast and works.

Thanks again 🙂

Kindest regards,
Curtis

Imported from legacy forums. Posted by Curtis (had 3409 views)

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