Re: StringGrid
From: genc ymeri (genc_ymeri_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 04/04/04
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Date: Sun, 4 Apr 2004 16:14:56 -0400
Hi Tony,
I had the same problem and I did ask the same question. The only thing
close to StringGrid I have seen so far is ListView. This is what I got way
with. DataGrid had terrible slow speed while trying to add some arrays as
rows......
Good luck.
Genc Ymeri
x-Delphi programmer
"Tony Drake" <drake@usa_._net_> wrote in message
news:403ddaed.12857828@news.microsoft.com...
> Hi Miha,
>
> Thanks for you reply.
>
> "Miha Markic [MVP C#]" <miha at rthand com> wrote:
>
> >Hi Tony,
> >
> >"Tony Drake" <drake@usa_._net_> wrote in message
> >news:403c877f.13531843@news.microsoft.com...
> >> LOL
> >>
> >> As a delphi programmer moving to C#, the string grid, and such 'super'
> >> grids appear a lot more powerful then the datagrid.
> >>
> >> See the following two sites:
> >> http://www.delphi-gems.com/VirtualTreeview/VT.php
> >> http://www.tmssoftware.com/advgrid2.htm
> >> Both brilliant, and one free!!!! (he's thinking of porting it to c#).
> >
> >Is this a stringgrid provided with Delphi or a derived 3rd party
component?
> Touch! You are right. The standard comp with delphi is poor, but as
> the 1st comp is free it 'feels' like part of Dephi ;-)
> >
> >> It's hard to put my finger on it, but in delphi land, we moved away
> >> from tying data to forms years ago, and moved to more 'abstract'
> >> methods.
> >
> >Good for you.
> >
> >All the ado.net stuff I see seems to be stuck in 2-tier land
> >> (I might have not read the right books/web sites)
> >
> >Obviously you haven't.
> Any Ideas? I've got 'Deitel's C# A programmer introduction' which I'm
> finding really good, and C# Class Design handbook - while good a bit
> light on detail. and a 'generic' ado.net book (at work tonight), which
> is a bit '2-tier'.
>
> Anything that's focusing on object persistance, or n'tier database on
> c# (not asp net - gui too
> >
> >
> >> I'm very new the C# (< month and loving it), but the general level of
> >> components avaliable seem very basic. The type of thing we could do
> >> with the stringgrid family of components are things such as a 'mixed
> >> tree/grid' - banding, merged cells, owner draw etc etc see very hand,
> >> or not supported in most grid examples. I might not know how to use
> >> the datagrid, but the propeties are not there,
> >
> >With stringgrid provided with Delphi?
> I conceed, you are right the standard one doesn't do this.
> >
> >> I just love how people assume 'their' language is the best, with the
> >> best features etc etc.
> >
> >Indeed.
> >
> >> Oh, and by the way I've moved to C# not because delphi cannot do
> >> everything I need, it because of perceptions like this, and one has to
> >> eat, so we delphi guys can't fight it anymore.
> >
> >Yes, even delphi guys have to eat.
> >
> >> Looking foward to finding out how to handle non-data bound
> >> unstructured strings using a mix tree/grid in one 'grid'..... ;-)
> >>
> >> Oh and do remember the guy who architected delphi was the atchitect of
> >> C# - C# is like Delphi with a 'C++/Java' syntax to me!!
> >
> >Really? That's really astonishing discovery. Does he know it? :)
> see
> http://windows.oreilly.com/news/hejlsberg_0800.html
>
> Absoluetely, Anders Hejlsberg Chief C# Language Architect who also
> architected the orginal Delphi in 1993 was poached by MS in the late
> 1998, and was put to work 'fixing J++, as did so. (remember the 'vb'
> like j++... ), when MS killed that, he was asked to build a java
> killer, and was on the team who but .net together and build the C#
> language - which he admitted was based on the Delphi object strucutre.
> Believe me, if C# is Delphi version 2 (or Delphi with the minor
> mistakes fixed - eg better garbage collection) it all good and will
> rock!!
>
> BTW I've found more stuff on binding arraylist to grids (hopping it
> will work with a hasharray etc, and have downloaded the trial
> Devexpress grids...
>
> >
> >--
> >Miha Markic [MVP C#] - DXSquad/RightHand .NET consulting & software
> >development
> >miha at rthand com www.rthand.com
> >
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> >
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