datagridview check if font is bold

[coopdog]

I need to check if fonts are bold or not within each cell. I can easily change the font to bold but I can't seem to get a true/false after I have written to the cell to see if it is bold or not.

Should this not work?
If Me.DataGridView1.Item(x, y).Style.Font.Bold Then

Thanks

Mike

[Killer42]

Should this not work?
If Me.DataGridView1.Item(x, y).Style.Font.Bold Then

What happens when you do that?

Note, it might be necessary to create a new font object and set it to match the one that's in the cell, then use that. There were cases in VB6 where this is necessary, so maybe it's still hanging around.

[coopdog]

What happens when you do that?

Note, it might be necessary to create a new font object and set it to match the one that's in the cell, then use that. There were cases in VB6 where this is necessary, so maybe it's still hanging around.

It returns an error for any cell that does not contain bold text.

I cheated and created a function that will check for bold and catches the error if it is not then returns true or false. Not sure if this is the best solution but it seems to work.

Thanks for the reply

Mike

[QVeen72]

Hi,

Yes, in VB.net, It works alright if the Font is Bold,
but if not Bold then you will get Null Reference Exception,
this is work around.

Dim TFlg As Boolean
Try
    TFlg = DataGridView1.Item(2, 5).Style.Font.Bold
Catch ex As Exception
    TFlg = False
End Try
MsgBox(TFlg)
 

Regards
Veena

[Killer42]

Yes, in VB.net, It works alright if the Font is Bold, but if not Bold then you will get Null Reference Exception ...

Wow! What an amazinlgy stupid language feature. :(

I hope someday we get a programming language that we can work with instead of around.

[coopdog]

Thanks for all the help, that is almost exactly what I came up with in my little function.

Thanks again

Mike

[Killer42]

Shouldn't you be checking the type of exception?