The obvious solution is a webbrowsercontrol, as that already knows how to show PDFs, and can be added to a form. Christian Graus - Microsoft MVP - C++ Metal Musings - Rex and my new metal blog

I'm not sure of the extent of formatting you plan on doing...but here is what I've done: private void RowPrePaint( object sender, DataGridViewRowPrePaintEventArgs e ) { if ( ( ( DataGridView )sender ).Name.StartsWith( "detail" ) ) return; DataGridViewCell cell = viewer.BatchGrid.Rows\[ e.RowIndex \].Cells\[ "BatchSelectColumn" \]; bool ThisRowSelected = false; if (cell.Value != null) { ThisRowSelected = cell.Value == DBNull.Value ? false : (bool)cell.Value; } ElementState rowState = states\[ new Guid(viewer.BatchGrid.Rows\[e.RowIndex\].Cells\["batchGuid"\].Value.ToString()) \]; if ( rowState.InvalidDate) viewer.BatchGrid.Rows\[ e.RowIndex \].Cells\[ "dateReceived" \].Style.BackColor = Color.LightCoral; else viewer.BatchGrid.Rows\[ e.RowIndex \].Cells\[ "dateReceived" \].Style.BackColor = ThisRowSelected ? Color.LightSteelBlue : SystemColors.Info; if ( rowState.OutOfSequence ) viewer.BatchGrid.Rows\[ e.RowIndex \].Cells\[ "batchNumber" \].Style.BackColor = Color.LightCoral; else viewer.BatchGrid.Rows\[ e.RowIndex \].Cells\[ "batchNumber" \].Style.BackColor = ThisRowSelected ? Color.LightSteelBlue : SystemColors.Info; if ( rowState.AmountOutOfBalance ) viewer.BatchGrid.Rows\[ e.RowIndex \].Cells\[ "dollarAmount" \].Style.BackColor = Color.LightCoral; else viewer.BatchGrid.Rows\[ e.RowIndex \].Cells\[ "dollarAmount" \].Style.BackColor = ThisRowSelected ? Color.LightSteelBlue : SystemColors.Info; if ( rowState.CountOutOfBalance ) viewer.BatchGrid.Rows\[ e.RowIndex \].Cells\[ "formCount" \].Style.BackColor = Color.LightCoral; else viewer.BatchGrid.Rows\[ e.RowIndex \].Cells\[ "formCount" \].Style.BackColor = ThisRowSelected ? Color.LightSteelBlue : SystemColors.Info; if ( ThisRowSelected ) viewer.BatchGrid.Rows\[ e.RowIndex \].DefaultCellStyle.BackColor = Color.LightSteelBlue; else viewer.BatchGrid.Rows\[ e.RowIndex \].DefaultCellStyle.BackColor = SystemColors.Info; }

did you try to debug your application and then take the generated SQL query to execute directly on SQL Server or "Server Connections" in VS, for instance?

Hello printscreen12345 wrote: Strange?!! Well, errors like these in Visual Studio are what keeps Borland on business;P Anyway, My last question would be: Do you put the false value directly into the cells, or do you put some sort of a local reference field in the try block to hold it?? If you put it in a local field it will turn to null once the block is finished, otherwise really... I'm out of guesses. printscreen12345 wrote: it is at the end of the try block that they were switched back. I guess I'd pass out if I see something like that while debugging??:-D Regards:rose:

Hi, It's working now. I found out that the datagridview is readonly though I checked that the checkboxcolumn is not readonly. Anyways, thanks very much for your help.

post the code..

I assume, from your question, that you are doing the following: 1) override void OnPaint() 2) doing a graphic.DrawString() You will not be able to select text in that situation. The only way you can have selectable text is to replace the owner-paint function with populating a control that is meant for text selection....like, oh say textbox???!!!!!

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Hello If I were you I'd use a foreach loop to check the parent.Controls for the next: 1- Make sure that the pictureboxes are all added up tto the parent successfully 2- Make sure of the ImageLocation property of each Picturebox 3- The size and location of each picturebox This may clarify the problem. If it's like you said, simply calculate the size manually each time by calculating the image's size -ie. don't rely on AutoSize" Happy programming;)

It seems working now. Thanks a lot.

Great and thanks!

I know there is an article here on Code Project that lets the user basically create SQL statements to return records. I've been researching datagrids myself; if you search on it you will get lots of articles. It may take a little time to search through them, but chances are you will find what you need. Also from what I understand, VS2005 will let you treat cells individually more easily rather than as an entire row like VS2003. So that may make a difference on how you decide to program. Hope your search turns out well!

It works now. I have added a panel on a tabpage and have the text painted on the panel. Thank you very much for your help.

How do I use paint event? When will the paint event be triggered? I need to write different text on a tabpage line by line. Can the paint event draw different strings to a control? Please help!!! I need a solution to it.

You must draw the existing string using background color to clear it.

I managed to displayed text by using graphic object. g = tabPage1.CreateGraphics(); g.DrawString(text, fnt, brsh, x, y); g.Dispose(); I used labels before and the tabPage was scrollable (tabPage.AutoScroll = true). But now it is not scrollable any more and thus those text at the bottom are missing from the tabPage. Do you know why? -- modified at 11:48 Tuesday 30th May, 2006