Grid/X 1.00.004

Mabrys new Grid/X ActiveX control provides functionality and flexibility not seen in other grid controls. The rich object model consists of 20+ separate objects that make utilizing Grid/Xs features easy and reliable.The following are some of the more important top-level objects found in the Grid/X programming model:Views - GridX provides multiple of the data it manages. Views may be split either vertically or horizontally, and you may allow the users to resize, remove, and create new views as required. A number of objects and properties may be used to customize the data that appears in views. And, unique to Grid/X, is the ability to host ActiveX controls in a View. The Grid/X tutorials show how to put this powerful feature to good use. RowStyles - Each RowStyle object has a Condition property. A condition is a Boolean expression that is evaluated for each row of data before it is displayed. You may add multiple Styles to the RowStyles collection. When there are multiple styles each row of data is evaluated relative to each Style, until a match is found. Then the matching Style object is used to determine how the rows data is displayed. GroupByBar - The GroupByBar object provides you with an easy way to present hierarchical data. It maintains a collection of Group objects that determine the way that data is grouped. The GroupByBar also servers as a user-interface element. Using the GroupByBar users can organize hierarchical data, as they require. StatusBar - The Status Bar is displayed at the bottom of the Grid, when visible. There are a number of properties that provide you with the ability to customize the StatusBar. For example, the Image and ImageAlignment properties make it easy to add an icon or other image to the StatusBar. And the StatusBar.Style property provides complete control over font, colors, and more.Like other grid controls, Grid/X supports the following data modes:Unbound - UnboundRead and UnboundWrite events are fired when Grid/X requires access to the dataset. ADO/DAO - ADO/DAO recordsets/data sources are used to supply data to the grid.In addition to those commonly seen data modes Grid/X supports data modes and extensibility not seen in other grid controls.Object - You can supply an Object as the data source for GridX. The objects properties are used as the data. Appropriate columns are created automatically. Collection - Uses a Collection object as the source of data. VBAdaptor - This is one of Grid/Xs most unusual and flexible features. Grid/X defines a COM Interface which you may implement using Visual Basic alone. Using the VBAdaptor interface you have complete control over the data accessed by Grid/X and can easily provide things such as calculated values for given cells, rows, or columns. The Grid/X tutorials show how easy it is to use this extensibility feature.Grid/X provides many other features - too many to describe here - including OLE Drag & Drop, automatic mapping of column values to drop-down box items, built-in edit controls such as text and calendar, the ability for you to provide custom drawing for any or all cells, and much more.