Selecting a row in TStringGrid from click on any cell within that row.

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Seryth picture Seryth · Feb 28, 2014 · Viewed 15.6k times · Source

I have a TStringGrid object on a form which has 1 FixedCol and 1 FixedRow. I want to be able to select an entire row on the object when the user clicks on any cell within that row. This selection must also be visible to the user (I want the row to change colour).

EDIT: Have put goRowSelect in options on the object. Is there now a way to select the row on the click of one of the cells in the fixed column?

Answer

Hari Babu Mandala picture Hari Babu Mandala · Mar 1, 2014

In order highlight entire row when ever the user clicks on any cell in that row, set the following StringGrid properties.

In design time: Go to options property and check the following sub-properties.

goEditing := TRUE;
goRowSelect := TRUE;

To achieve this at run time,

StringGrid1.Options := StringGrid1.Options + [goEditing];
StringGrid1.Options := StringGrid1.Options + [goRowSelect];

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