VB Flex Grid

Flex Grid Control
 Pjt- Components-MsFlexGrid Control 6.0

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More powerful than grid control.
Has 80 properties, 20 events, 10 methods.
It lets to build spread sheet- like feature.
It helps to display tabular information neatly
& efficiently.
It works faster.
It displays a rectangular grid of rows &
columns .
Number of rows & columns depends on how
much we set at the design time.
Intersection of rows & columns is called cell.
Cells can hold text, bitmaps or icons(images).
It has build-in word wrap. It can be activated
through code or by properties window.
The user can move from cell-cell using arrow
keys or by mouse.
 User moves around the grid, VB
keep track of current cell as the
values of rows & column properties.
User can work with group of cells
called regions.
GENERAL PROPERTIES OF FLEXGRID
CONTROL
 Height, width properties tell how large the
grid appears.
Scroll bars can also be set
1- horizontal
2- vertical
3-both
 Cell font bold, Cell font italic, cell back
color, Cell fore color properties affect the text
or color of the current cell.
1.Cols,Rows:
• These properties determines the number of rows
& columns in the grid.
• Default 2
Syntax
GridName. Cols= Numofcols%
GridName .Rows=Numofrows%
2.Cols,Rows:
• These properties return the rows & column for the
current selected cell inside the grid.
• It is available only at run time.
3. Col position, row position
 Occasionally useful.
We can move whole rows & columns around
the grid.
Syntax
Grid Name. colposition(number) [=value]
Grid Name. rowposition(number) [=value]
4. Col Width, Row Height
 These 2 properties specifies the width of a
specified column or height of specified row.
They can be set only by code.
Syntax
Grid Name. colwidth(colnumber%) = width%
Grid Name. rowheight(rownumber%) = height%
5.Text, Text matrix
The text property returns the text inside
the current cell with 4 rows & 4 columns.
We make the cell in the bottom right
corner of the current cell.
Syntax
Text martix(rowindex, colindex)= [string]
6. Cell Left, Cell Width, Cell Top, Cell
Height
7. Col Alignment
0- left justify
1- right
2-center
Syntax
Grid Name. col Alignment(Index%) =
setting%
8. Fixed cols, Fixed Rows & Fixed Alignment
• When working with grids, we often want certain
cells to display information all the times.
• Eg: column headings.
• Fixed rows & columns are always displayed in
gray & must be at the top & left sides of the grid.
• By default we will have one fixed rows &
columns.
• Fixed alignment works exactly like coumn
alignment property, but applies only to fixed
columns.
Syntax
Grid Name. fixed col= number of fixed cols%
Grid Name. fixed row = number of fixed cols%
Grid Name. fixed Alignment = setting number %
9. Grid lines , scroll bars

• These 2 properties control gridlines & scrol bar
appearance.
• Default- is to show grid line & to have both
horizontal & vertical scroll bars.
10. Left col, Top row
• These 2 properties controls the left most
column & top row displayed from a grid.
• They can be set only by code.
Syntax
Grid Name. left col= left most col%
Grid Name. top row= height row%
PROPERTIES OF SELECTED CELLS INSIDE
THE GRIDS
1. Col sel, Row sel:
These properties work with row & col properties
to determine the size of the current selection.
2. Clip:
This property returns the contents of the selected
region.
Syntax
Grid Name. clip=string$
3. Fill style
 User enter into one cell of the selected
region to fill up the entire region.
Default-0, 1- flex fill repeat.
4. High light
 It has 3 values
0- flex high light never
1- flex high light always
2- flex high light with focus
5. Allow Big Selection
• True/False property determines clicking on rows
& column header selects the entire row or column.
6. Allow user resizing
• It determines whether the user can resize a row or
column at run time using mouse.
0-default
1-column resize
2- row resize
3-both
Sorting a grid
• Most powerful feature of flex grid .
• It has got the ability to sort rows according to the
column selected.
Syntax
Flex Grid Name. sort=value
Value 0-none
1- Ascending order
2-Descending order
3-Ascending but converts string to numbers
4- Descending but converts string to
numbers.
5-Ascending but case insensitive
6- Descending but case insensitive
7-Ascending but case sensitive
8- Descending but case sensitive
9- Use the compare events to compare
rows
EVENTS AND METHODS FOR FLEX
GRID
Grids respond to many of the std. events
Eg: Click event
key press event
Methods for resizing a grid
• There are also methods to insert or delete rows
from a grid.
Syntax
Grid Name. add item item$[,index%]
Remove item:
It removes a row from a grid
Syntax
Grid Name. remove item index%

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