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Put a TCheckBox inside a TStringGrid in Delphi

Asked 2011-03-14T23:55:19.773
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I want to put a TCheckBox inside a TStringGrid in Delphi in every cell of certain column. I'm using Delphi XE.

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You should draw your own checkboxes, preferably using visual themes, if enabled. This is a simple sketch of how to do that:

const
  Checked: array[1..4] of boolean = (false, true, false, true);

procedure TForm4.StringGrid1DrawCell(Sender: TObject; ACol, ARow: Integer;
  Rect: TRect; State: TGridDrawState);
const
  PADDING = 4;
var
  h: HTHEME;
  s: TSize;
  r: TRect;
begin
  if (ACol = 2) and (ARow >= 1) then
  begin
    FillRect(StringGrid1.Canvas.Handle, Rect, GetStockObject(WHITE_BRUSH));
    s.cx := GetSystemMetrics(SM_CXMENUCHECK);
    s.cy := GetSystemMetrics(SM_CYMENUCHECK);
    if UseThemes then
    begin
      h := OpenThemeData(StringGrid1.Handle, 'BUTTON');
      if h <> 0 then
        try
          GetThemePartSize(h,
            StringGrid1.Canvas.Handle,
            BP_CHECKBOX,
            CBS_CHECKEDNORMAL,
            nil,
            TS_DRAW,
            s);
          r.Top := Rect.Top + (Rect.Bottom - Rect.Top - s.cy) div 2;
          r.Bottom := r.Top + s.cy;
          r.Left := Rect.Left + PADDING;
          r.Right := r.Left + s.cx;
          DrawThemeBackground(h,
            StringGrid1.Canvas.Handle,
            BP_CHECKBOX,
            IfThen(Checked[ARow], CBS_CHECKEDNORMAL, CBS_UNCHECKEDNORMAL),
            r,
            nil);
        finally
          CloseThemeData(h);
        end;
    end
    else
    begin
      r.Top := Rect.Top + (Rect.Bottom - Rect.Top - s.cy) div 2;
      r.Bottom := r.Top + s.cy;
      r.Left := Rect.Left + PADDING;
      r.Right := r.Left + s.cx;
      DrawFrameControl(StringGrid1.Canvas.Handle,
        r,
        DFC_BUTTON,
        IfThen(Checked[ARow], DFCS_CHECKED, DFCS_BUTTONCHECK));
    end;
    r := Classes.Rect(r.Right + PADDING, Rect.Top, Rect.Right, Rect.Bottom);
    DrawText(StringGrid1.Canvas.Handle,
      StringGrid1.Cells[ACol, ARow],
      length(StringGrid1.Cells[ACol, ARow]),
      r,
      DT_SINGLELINE or DT_VCENTER or DT_LEFT or DT_END_ELLIPSIS);
  end;
end;

                        
                        
answered 2011-03-15T02:17:01.383

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