Datagridview MultiSelect without shift or CTRL

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Datagridview MultiSelect without shift or CTRL

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Looking to be able to MultiSelect a datdgridview without using shift or CTRL. I am running this GUI on a touchscreen and don't want to have to use a keyboard (or onscreen keyboard) if possible. Is this possible?

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Re: Datagridview MultiSelect without shift or CTRL

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See this for variations on how to accomplish this.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/417 ... dview?rq=1
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Thanks for the link.

I tried following along and am having trouble understanding. Would you happen to have an example in PowerShell Studio I could try to deconstruct to learn?
If you don't have time, its no big deal.

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According to Microsoft the on-screen keyboard is the correct way to use the shift key to multi-select.

Since your request is a non-standard use, I don't have a sample. Just remember the current selection in a script scoped variable and add teh new selection and reset the selected items on each selection. That should take about 5 lines of code. The issue is deciding how to go into multi-select mode. A context menu can do that.

Believe me. The onscreen keyboard is more natural for users and follows the Windows GUI spec and documentation for tablets. I always recommend not to re-inventing what the industry has already defined. Standards are less confusing to users and provide built-in help for users trained in Windows.
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Here is a quick and dirty example of how to multiselect on a row select.
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Re: Datagridview MultiSelect without shift or CTRL

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Thanks for the example, that helps a ton!!!

I will also reconsider just using the OSK, but this will help me learn this method anyway if I choose to go with the OSK.

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jvierra, this worked perfectly. Thanks!

One more question. I was trying to add a button to clear the selection, in order to select different rows.
This did work:

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$button1_Click={
	Clear-Variable selected
	$datagridview1.ClearSelection()
}
but the "selections" seem to be remembered. For example if I select 3 rows, then hit the button I created above, it does unselect them (and clear all selected rows) but if I select another row it selects that one and the ones that were selected previously.

Sorry, I know this is probably simple but I just cant seem to get it to work.

EDIT: Here is the entire code if that helps.

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$form1_Load={
}

$buttonLoad_Click={
    $nac = Get-WmiObject -ClassName Win32_NetworkAdapterConfiguration #-ComputerName $ComputerName.Text
    $datagridview1.DataSource = [System.Collections.ArrayList]$nac
}

$datagridview1_SelectionChanged={
    if($datagridview1.CurrentRow.Index -ge 0){
        if($datagridview1.CurrentRow.Index -notin $selected){
            [array]$script:selected += $datagridview1.CurrentRow.Index
        }
        $selected |
            ForEach-Object{
                $datagridview1.Rows[$_].Selected = $true
            }
    }
}

$button1_Click={
	Clear-Variable selected
	$datagridview1.ClearSelection()
}
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Re: Datagridview MultiSelect without shift or CTRL

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Get the selected items and clear them one-by-one. A multi-select mode cannot be cleared with a single "ClearSelection" which clears only the most current selection.
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Re: Datagridview MultiSelect without shift or CTRL

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Thanks, that makes sense.

I tried this as a test:

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$button1_Click= {
	Clear-Variable selected
	$datagridview1.Rows[2].Selected = $false
}
after making sure Row2 was selected and it does unselect the row but if I then select a different row, it selects that row plus the one that was unselected (Row2 in this case). It seems to be remembering what was selected.

Or am I going completely in the wrong direction :D
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Enumerate "SelectedItems" and set "Selected" to false.
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