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Re: Can nobody help me? Re: selecting a column in a grid

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• Subject: [mg98318] Re: Can nobody help me? Re: selecting a column in a grid
• From: Albert Retey <awnl at gmx-topmail.de>
• Date: Sun, 5 Apr 2009 06:41:31 -0400 (EDT)
• References: <gr6c5c$ppo$1@smc.vnet.net>

Hi,

> Currently I have EventHandler wrapped around the whole grid. Is it possible
> to wrap it around each individual cell in a grid? I have tried a few ideas,
> but they don't seem to work. The documentation suggests that EventHandler
> can be wrapped around any expression, but that doesn't seem to be the case,
> or at least the wrapped expression doesn't seem to display properly inside
> other constructs, such as Grid, Column etc.

I think using EventHandler for the content of individual cells will work
much better and it works as documented, see below. The problem is that a
cell in a grid is not something that exists as an individual expression
(Item would actually be, but this indeed doesn't work, it looks like
Grid doesn't recognize the Item as such if it is wrapped with EventHandler).

> Is there some better approach I could take, rather than using EventHandler? 

Would this be close to what you want? Admittedly it is a little hacky,
since one needs to play with the ImageMargins and Spacings options to
get a result that has no blind spots for the mouse clicks and looks
decent. The possibility to wrap Item in Grid with EventHandler would be
nicer, or an option for Item that would allow the handling of events...

Deploy[Grid[
  MapIndexed[
   Item[
     EventHandler[
      Pane[#1, ImageMargins -> {3*{1, 1}, {0, 0}}],
      {"MouseClicked" :> (selectedcolumn = #2[[2]])}],
     Background ->
      Dynamic[If[selectedcolumn == #2[[2]], LightGray, White]]
     ] &,
   {{aasdf, b, c}, {dasdf, e, f}, {gasdf, h, i}},
   {2}
   ],
  Dividers -> All,
  Spacings -> 0.15
  ]]

note that I needed to set a small value for Spacings, otherwise when
clicking in the Spacing-area, the events won't be triggered. Using
Spacings->0 will make the Dividers become invisible which may or may not
be a problem for you. To get back the normal look of the table with
decent margins for the contents of the cells I am using a Pane with
individual ImageMargins options, which you might adopt to your taste. I
was choosing something that is close to the default spacings Grid will
use with no options. Without using Deploy it can happen that instead of
triggering the MouseClick Event you end up selecting some content of the
cell without changing the column selection, so I think usually using
Deploy will be a good choice for an interactive graphical user
interface. Changing the background color for the selected column is just
to demonstrate that it works...

Here is the same thing for selecting cells:

Deploy[Grid[
  MapIndexed[
   Item[
     EventHandler[
      Pane[#1, ImageMargins -> {3*{1, 1}, {0, 0}}],
      {"MouseClicked" :> (selectedcell = #2)}],
     Background -> Dynamic[Switch[selectedcell,
        #2, LightRed,{#2[[1]], _}, LightBlue,
        {_, #2[[2]]}, LightGreen,_, White]]
     ] &,
   {{aasdf, b, c}, {dasdf, e, f}, {gasdf, h, i}},
   {2}
   ],
  Dividers -> All,
  Spacings -> 0.15
  ]]


hth,

albert

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