Triggering a checkbox value changed event in DataG

Question

I have a grid view that has a check box column, and I want to trigger a drawing event as soon as the value of the cell is toggled. I tried the ValueChaged and the CellEndEdit and BeginEdit, and chose the selection mode as CellSelect. As for the the first 2 events, the event was triggered upon the finishing of the edit mode, like moving out of the current cell, or going back and forth. It's just a weird behavior.

Is there anything that triggers the event on the grid view as soon as the cell value is changed?

Answer 1

Small update.... Make sure you use EditedFormattedValue instead of value as I tried value but it never give right status that is checked/unchecked most of the site still use value but as used in latest c# 2010 express below is one way to access..

grdJobDetails.Rows[e.RowIndex].Cells[0].EditedFormattedValue

Also _CellValueChanged event suggested or used by few must be usable for some cases but if you are looking for every check/uncheck of cell make sure you use _CellContentClick else per my notice I see not every time _CellValueChanged is fired.. that is if the same checkbox is clicked over & over again it does not fire _CellValueChanged but if you click alternately for example you have two chekbox & click one after other _CellValueChanged event will be fired but usually if looking for event to fire everytime the any cell is check/uncheck _CellValueChanged is not fired.

Answer 2

cellEndEditTimer.Start();

this line makes the datagridview update the list of checked boxes

Thank you.

Answer 3

I finally implemented it this way

  private void dataGridView1_CellMouseClick(object sender, DataGridViewCellMouseEventArgs e)
    {

        if (e.ColumnIndex >= 0 && e.RowIndex >= 0)
        {
            if (dataGridView1[e.ColumnIndex, e.RowIndex].GetContentBounds(e.RowIndex).Contains(e.Location))
            {
                cellEndEditTimer.Start();
            }
        }

    }

    private void dataGridView1_CellEndEdit(object sender, DataGridViewCellEventArgs e)
    { /*place your code here*/}


    private void cellEndEditTimer_Tick(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {
        dataGridView1.EndEdit();
        cellEndEditTimer.Stop();
    }