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Customizing the sortglyph in the datagridview

I have implemented custom sorting in my datagridview and am setting the sortglyphdirection property. All of this works fine but the position of the sort glyph is too far to the right in my columns. I set the column width to something reasonable for the width of the data in the column and the sortglyph doesn't show because it is outside the visible width of the column. It seems that I have to set the width of the column artificially wide in order to see the glyph. Is there some way to control the placement of the glyph or to display my own arrow in the header?

Linda Call Friday, December 19, 2008 3:18 PM

Hi Linda Call,

By default, the glyph alwaysdisplays at the right of the headCell of a column.
It's impossible to control the placement of if.
But you can handle the cellPainting event of a dataGridVew to draw the text and the arrow yourself.

privatevoiddataGridView1_CellPainting(objectsender,DataGridViewCellPaintingEventArgse) 

{ 

if(e.ColumnIndex>-1&&e.RowIndex==-1) 

{ 

e.Paint(e.CellBounds,DataGridViewPaintParts.All&~DataGridViewPaintParts.ContentForeground); 

e.Graphics.DrawString("ASDAa",e.CellStyle.Font,newSolidBrush(e.CellStyle.ForeColor),e.CellBounds); 

e.Handled=true; 

} 

}

If there's any problem, please feel free to let me know.

Best regards,
Steven Yu

Marked As Answer byKira QianMSFT, ModeratorFriday, December 26, 2008 2:50 AM

Steven.Yu Monday, December 22, 2008 6:13 AM

privatevoiddataGridView1_CellPainting(objectsender,DataGridViewCellPaintingEventArgse) 

{ 

if(e.ColumnIndex>-1&&e.RowIndex==-1) 

{ 

e.Paint(e.CellBounds,DataGridViewPaintParts.All&~DataGridViewPaintParts.ContentForeground); 

e.Graphics.DrawString("ASDAa",e.CellStyle.Font,newSolidBrush(e.CellStyle.ForeColor),e.CellBounds); 

e.Handled=true; 

} 

}

If there's any problem, please feel free to let me know.

Best regards,
Steven Yu

Marked As Answer byKira QianMSFT, ModeratorFriday, December 26, 2008 2:50 AM

Steven.Yu Monday, December 22, 2008 6:13 AM

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