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Optimized for OLE DB technology, our COM grid's unique features and components provide more control and flexibility than ever before. We've incorporated truly innovative graphical capabilities, giving the developer the ability to simplify navigation through complex data structures while providing eye-popping visual appeal. With new printing and print preview capabilities, displayed data can look great on paper, too.
OLE DB data-bound grid control with intuitive hierarchical data ViewStyles. Single-band (flat recordsets), or multi-band (hierarchical) in either horizontal or vertical representation.
Unbound Support allows the control to be used without being directly attached to a database. Our COM grid supports unbound data using MVC (model-viewer-control) concepts via a connection to an OLE DB recordset without any database connections. This leverages Microsoft's advanced data model as the grid's data model, and empowers the developer to build applications in non-bound mode.
Printing and Print Preview methods provide the convenience of hard copies for displayed data. Further customization of the printed output is now achievable through the DrawFilter interface.
Group, Column, Row, and Cell objects provide clear access to data at all levels, allowing the ability to address any programming situation that arises.
The COM grid provides exceptional control and flexibility by exposing all of its user interface elements via a 'tree' of UIElement objects. This provides the ability to easily identify and customize all aspects of the COM grid's user interface.
The Appearance object features font control and color translucency/transparency over every display element, enabling data to be visually presented in new, exciting ways.
Owner-drawn elements allow for high performance custom drawing of every UIElement. A layered approach to drawing and an advanced callback interface provide absolute control over how every element is drawn in the COM grid.
Owner-controlled data values provides exacting control over data at the cell level, both loading into and updating from the grid.
Data formatting provides a powerful and convenient way to format data off the COM grid's column object.
Column styles control how data is input, saved, displayed and made available for clipboard operations. Styles include a Button, CheckBox, DropDown, DropDownCalendar, Edit (with or without Intelligent masking), EditButton and HTML rendering.
Multi-Level Display and Behavior Attributes The Override object at the Grid, Layout, and Band levels provides the ability to change the appearance and behavior of columns, rows, and cells at any level of the object hierarchy.
Save and Load Layouts The Layout object provides the ability to save and restore layouts with greater granularity, from file, registry, stream, or URL. Layout collections store multiple layouts, for added convenience.
AutoSizeEdit Editing A pop-up edit window will overlay cell edits in-place if the data for the cell cannot be contained in the current cell region. Edit expands dynamically as data is input.
ValueLists Associate value data contained in a column with alias data displayed without having to write any custom code. Bitmaps may also be attached to the list entries.
Protected Event Model Programmatically cause events to be suppressed and enabled on the fly, using the EventEnabled property.
User-Defined Cell Edits UIElements for cells and robust editing event architecture make user-defined edits a snap to implement. Pixel-level coordinate access for all UI elements allow the developer to accurately position other controls over any portion of the grid.
Row Connector Tips and Navigation Clicks Row Connector Tips and Navigation Clicks provide a visual method of navigating a hierarchical recordset. A row connector tip displays information about off screen rows.
Multi-Column Sorting Events Sort indicators and sorting events allow for multi-column sorting capability.
Custom Property Pages Visually manipulate the COM grid using the integrated property pages, featuring wizards for appearances, behaviors and properties, at design time.
Scrolling Regions The grid can be split multiple times horizontally and/or vertically, manipulated through Office 2000-like thumbs located on the border-corners of the grid or through code.
