The following is what a general windows programmer would expect from a "grid
control" to be used from an IDE for windows development.... such as VB6,
Delphi, VC ...
Perhaps picking from among the following "bullet list" would help.
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Grid Grouping Support
Grid offers support for grouping both your flat datasources and your
hierarchical datasources. It supports expressions fields, filters,
multi-column sorting, grouping, nested tables/hierarchies and custom
summaries.
Grouping Support
Hierarchical (nested tables) Support
Multiple Nested Tables
Summaries
Expression Fields
Filters
Error Indicator
Group by Column in Nested Tables
Synchronize Records with Parent Tables
AddNew Record
Drag Column Headers
Synchronize Records with Categories
Multiple Rows perRecord
Record Navigation Bar
ScrollTips
Base Styles
General Features
Grid supports all standard grid control features. In addition, Grid sports
features such as full support for Undo / Redo and OLE Drag & Drop.
Alphablending/Background bitmaps
OLE DND and Clipboard Support
Printing
Property Grid Integration
Resize Rows and Columns
Serialization
Virtual Mode
Merged Cells
Covered Cells
Banner Cells
Formula Support
Freeze Rows or Columns
GDI+ Drawing
Grid List Control/Autocomplete dropdown list
Hide Rows or Columns
Keyboard interface
Mouse operations
Cell Attributes
Grid is implemented using a cell oriented architecture that allows intricate
customization at the cell level. Listed below are some of the cell
attributes that can be changed.
Cell Text Alignment
Cell Text Color
Cell Text Orientation
Cell Borders
Cell Wrap Text Mode
Cell Auto Size Mode
Cell Allow Enter Mode
Cell Types
Cell Format
Cell Choice List
Cell Image List
Data Source
Read Only
ShowButtons
Cell Base Style
Cell Interior
Cell Types
Grid supports several cell types including Header Text, Static, Text Box,
Check Box, NumericUpDown, Push Button and Combo Box. In addition, you can
derive from our classes to easily add additional cell types.
Static Text
Grid Drop Down
Custom Cells
Header Text
Formula Cell
Check Box
NumericUpDown
Push Button
Combo Box
Month Calendar
MaskEdit
Password Cell
PictureBox Cell
ProgressBar Cell
RichText Cell
Slider Cell
WebBrowser Cell
XHtml Cell
Color Picker
Data Binding
Grid provides excellent data binding support. It supports ODBC natively. It
also provides an excellent infrastructure for custom data binding. Bound or
unbound data mode available at run time.
ADO
Images
Record navigation bar
DateTime and Boolean field Cell types
Split views
Sorting
Rearranging columns
Resizing rows
Ole Drag Drop and Clipboard
Hierarchies
Custom collections
FilterBar
Multiple rows per record
Multiple Header cells
Formatting cells based on criteria
Dropdown lists for foreign key
MS Office Emulation
Grid emulates popular Microsoft applications. Your users will find its
interface to be friendly and familiar.
Cell Floating Mode
Multilevel Undo / Redo
Accelerated Scrolling
Intelli-mouse Scrolling
Shared Scrollbars
Excel Emulation
Access Emulation
Workbook and Worksheets
Scrolltips and Thumbtracking
Document / View Support
Dynamic Splitters
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not in a tech spec but within a product definition would be such market info
as
Cost:
Binary subscription ... $295
Developer subscription with source .... $695
Anticipated sales:
ahh this I leave as an exercise to ...
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