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Anthony · Guest

Is this newsgroup used? I can't beleive the amount of spam, why doens't
borland moderate this or something?

Ok, anyway, what is the best grid control to use? I want the behavior to be
very intutitive for user navigation...my users like to use an enter.

I want a lot of control programatically, to enter data into non bound fields
and then run my own queries to enter them into different parts of the
database.

Anyway, are there any good suggestions. Something easy to use for user and
programmer. :)

Velociraptor · Guest

Hi Anthony

Have a look at www.bennet-tec.com and their TLIST7 tree/grid component. I
have been using this (ActiveX) for a couple of years (the past 9 months with
Delphi 5 & 7) and it gives a lot of programability and looks good. It is
also very fast at loading data and can support a variety of different
built-in input styles for the cells (Text, Combo-Box, Spin-up/down, date
etc). The control also allows you to create trees where nodes have sub-grids
(a forest of grids) - neat. You also have considerable control over node,
column/row and cell formatting (fonts, colours etc). The event model is rich
and it all seems to work OK under Delphi.

However, the control is not (yet) data-bound so you have to do your own
loading and updating of data if you are using it for database
display/update. However, having had bad experiences with some MS data-bound
components, I prefer to have hands-on anyway.

HTH

Paul

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