How to enable a disabled control on click

Question

I have a DevExpress grid, which is disabled on screen. When I click the control, I want it to become enabled. Right now I have a click event set up for the grid:

        private void gridPSR_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
        {
            gridPSR.Enabled = true;
        }

This isn't working. How should I be going about this?

Answer 1

Disabled controls do not receive windows messages, so you will never get the click message on that control. Assuming this is Winforms, you can listen for the click on the form (or whatever control is hosting this grid) and check if the click location is in the rectangle of the disabled control and then enable the control accordingly:

void Form1_MouseClick(object sender, MouseEventArgs e)
{
    if (gridPSR.ClientRectangle.Contains(e.Location))
    {
        gridPSR.Enabled = true;
    }
}

Answer 2

I know it's an old post but for me bounds worked instead of ClientRectangle

    private void OnPanelMouseClick(object sender, MouseEventArgs e)
    {
        if ((e.Button == MouseButtons.Left) &&
             myControl.Bounds.Contains(e.Location) &&
             !myControl.Enabled)
        {
            myControl.Enabled = true;
        }
    }

Where myControl is member variable of your control instance. OnPanelMouseClick handler should be linked with MouseClick event of form or container that holds control.