Popup when clicked on a cell DataGridView possible?

Hello! The title is misleading kinda haha. Anyways, I have a client that wants me to build them an application that uses DataGridView but wants a popup to happen whenever they click a cell. Like they are a store, they want to keep track of customer credit but whenever they click their name, they want to add a note of what they bought. Here is an image to help describe what I mean: Attachment 148033 Where it says Popup here or whatever, like a little overlay that they can add when press exit or an X or whatever? They want those notes to be linked to that specific cell and that is something I have no idea how to do, which is why I have come here. All help is awesome!

Your explanation isn't really very clear but, as a general note, if you want to do something when the user clicks a cell in a DataGridView then you need to handle the CellClick event of that grid. The event handler provides to column and row indexes of the cell that was clicked so you can decide whether to do anything and what to do based on that. You can then display a tool tip or whatever.

Yes that what I want to do but here is what I don't know how to word: They input something, it will be different depending on who uses it. When they click that name(whatever it may be) a, say rich text box pops up. I want them to be able to write something and close it but it is saved to that specific cell, so to say.

As I said in my previous post, the CellClick event provides the column and row index of the cell that was clicked. I'm assuming that you know, or at least can find out, how to get a cell from the grid using those values.

Yeah I can. Just to make sure we are on both same page. I have my datagridview alphabetized so the position of the cell will be different from when they originally clicked and wrote. All that will be handled from what you mentioned, correct? Like they click on a name, write some stuff down, then click done. That data will be saved to that specific cell from what you mentioned, correct? Sorry as well, I am still learning and, well, this is how I learn.

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That data will be saved to that specific cell from what you mentioned, correct?

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The data will go to the cell you send it to. If you use the column and row index provided by the CellClick event then it will go to the cell at that position. Will anything have happened between the click and where you want to send the data to the cell to have changed the positions of the cells? If not then what reason could there be for that to not be the cell that was clicked? It would take you about three minutes to test this for yourself. Just add the event handler, call InputBox and populate the cell. If that works then you know that the principle is sound and then you can change the input method to whatever you actually want.

I know how to use a cellclick event now but my issue I am trying to say isn't working. Nevermind about it, sorry for the troubles.

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my issue I am trying to say isn't working.

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If it's not working then you did it wrong. If you don't show us what you did then we can't tell you what's wrong with it.

The issue isn't coding. I am trying to understand this all. The whole thing is dynamic. That one specific cell I want to hold the data will move positions. I am trying to understand is this, even if the position of the cell moves, does that specific cell that originally stored the data when moved still hold that data?

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The issue isn't coding. I am trying to understand this all. The whole thing is dynamic. That one specific cell I want to hold the data will move positions. I am trying to understand is this, even if the position of the cell moves, does that specific cell that originally stored the data when moved still hold that data?

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I don't really see how that's relevant. You're asking how to click a cell and populate that cell from a for that you display. What happens to the cell before that click and after it's populated isn't relevant at all. The cell is what it is and is where it is for that period so it matters not what happens outside that period. It seems to me that you're trying to complicate something that isn't complex. Have you done what I said and tested using InputBox? If not, why not? If so, did it work? If not, what happened? If so, it's working so there's no problem.

Alright I got it, thanks man!