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Question

How can I determine which rows are selected in the grid? It’s easy to determine which row is selected with:
owningTaskId := StrToInt((gantt1.Grid.FocusedCell.GridNode.ListItemWhenDataBound() as DataRowView).Item[‘id’].ToString)
but how do I determine which multiple rows are selected?

Answer

Often in gui controls like the GTP.NET there is a distinct difference between “select” and “focus”. The “thing” with focus can almost always be only one, and focus often mean keyboard-focus (where will the key-strokes go).

Selections can often consist of many “items”, often refered to as multi-select.

So in the grid there is only one Focused cell: gantt1.Grid.FocusedCell. And there are possibly many selected cells: ArrayList al=gantt1.Grid.GridStructure.SelectedCells();
You will need to iterate thru the list of selected cells and get to their GridNode just as you did with the focused cell.

Each Cell has a Selected property that is true or false. You can programatically set this if needed.

Symptoms

How to select a row in the gantt area when a node in the grid is selected?

Resolution

Whenever a cell is selected or de-selected the event Grid.OnCellSelectChanged is fired. If you implement this event and check if the event is fired due to a selection (nowSelected==true), look up the owning GridNode, find the corresponding GanttRow and check if it contains any time items. If so, select it:

gantt1.Grid.OnCellSelectChanged+=

new CellSelectChangedHandler(Grid_OnCellSelectChanged);

    private void Grid_OnCellSelectChanged(Cell cell, CellSelectChangedEventArgs cellSelectChanged)
    {
      if (cellSelectChanged.nowSelected)
      {
        GanttRow gr=Gantt.GanttRowFromGridNode(cell.Node);
        if (gr.Layers.Count>0 && gr.Layers[0].Count>0 )
        {
          gantt1.UpdateMultiSelect(gr.Layers[0][0]);

        }
      }
    }

Note; time items has a property Selected that will be set upon selection, but if this state actually shows on screen depends on the TimeItemLayout for the given time item… Try TimeItemLayout.SelectHandles=Color.Black;

Note2; You can set gr.Layers[0][0].Selected=true, but then the earlier selected time items will not be un-selected.

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