Making a DataGridView look like a sudoku board

ddanbe 0 1K Views

Btw. this is not a sudoku solver.
To gain a deeper insight into the workings of the DataGridView beast (but I begin to love and appreciate it) I decided to make myself a sudoku layout with it.
Start a forms app. Make the form a bit bigger and fill in the code. I did most of it in the load event of the form. It was fun to do, but the real fun starts now:
How to handle the myriad of events of the DataGridView to fill up the board with digits? For the moment I can fill in only one character in a cell(see line 47),but I can also input letters. How to avoid this?
How can I jump the inputfield over an already filled in digit when I push an arrowkey? Etc. etc.
Let you know when I finished that in a couple of months or so. :o)

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.ComponentModel;
using System.Data;
using System.Drawing;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using System.Windows.Forms;

namespace SudokuStuff
{
    public partial class Form1 : Form
    {
        const int cColWidth = 45;
        const int cRowHeigth = 45;
        const int cMaxCell = 9;
        const int cSidelength = cColWidth * cMaxCell + 3;

        DataGridView DGV;

        public Form1()
        {
            InitializeComponent();
        }

        private void Form1_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
        {
            DGV = new DataGridView();
            DGV.Name = "DGV";
            DGV.AllowUserToResizeColumns = false;
            DGV.AllowUserToResizeRows = false;
            DGV.AllowUserToAddRows = false;
            DGV.RowHeadersVisible = false;
            DGV.ColumnHeadersVisible = false;
            DGV.GridColor = Color.DarkBlue;
            DGV.DefaultCellStyle.BackColor = Color.AliceBlue;
            DGV.ScrollBars = ScrollBars.None;
            DGV.Size = new Size(cSidelength, cSidelength);
            DGV.Location = new Point(50, 50);
            DGV.Font = new System.Drawing.Font("Calibri", 16.2F, FontStyle.Bold, GraphicsUnit.Point, ((byte)(0)));
            DGV.ForeColor = Color.DarkBlue;
            DGV.SelectionMode = DataGridViewSelectionMode.CellSelect;
            // add 81 cells
            for (int i = 0; i < cMaxCell; i++)
            {
                DataGridViewTextBoxColumn TxCol = new DataGridViewTextBoxColumn();
                TxCol.MaxInputLength = 1;   // only one digit allowed in a cell
                DGV.Columns.Add(TxCol);
                DGV.Columns[i].Name = "Col " + (i + 1).ToString();
                DGV.Columns[i].Width = cColWidth;                
                DGV.Columns[i].DefaultCellStyle.Alignment = DataGridViewContentAlignment.MiddleCenter;
                
                DataGridViewRow row = new DataGridViewRow();
                row.Height = cRowHeigth;
                DGV.Rows.Add(row);
            }
            // mark the 9 square areas consisting of 9 cells
            DGV.Columns[2].DividerWidth = 2;
            DGV.Columns[5].DividerWidth = 2;
            DGV.Rows[2].DividerHeight = 2;
            DGV.Rows[5].DividerHeight = 2;
            
            Controls.Add(DGV);
 
        }
	}
}
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