GridView?

I am wondering if Dolphin has an equivalent of a grid view where you can
select individual items in different rows.  I looked at the ListPresenter /
Multi selection ehanced list, but this only allows selecting entire rows.
Is there an add on for this?
Regards,
  Gary Overgard

Gary,

> I am wondering if Dolphin has an equivalent of a grid view where you can
> select individual items in different rows.  I looked at the ListPresenter
> / Multi selection ehanced list, but this only allows selecting entire
> rows.  Is there an add on for this?

As it stands Dolphin doesn't have the sort of grid control that you are
looking for and it would be, I would guess, quite difficult to write one
without a lot of effort.

The subject of grid views has come up a few times in the newsgroup though
[1] and the solution that seems to be the favourite is to use an Active/X
control. A couple have been mentioned, "BeeGrid" and the "MSFlexGrid" (I
think?), but I don't know if anyone has got past the initial trial stages
and is using them in anger.

Regards
    Ian

[1] A complete archive of previous postings, as well as links to a couple of
tools that can search the archive,  is available from my web site at
http://www.iandb.org.uk

I did a little work with BeeGrid a couple of months ago and it seemed to
work ok.  I stopped because it was obvious my application would have more
than 1,024 rows, which I think is the limit for the free BeeGrid version.
However, I was able to manipulate the properties, populate the grid, trap
events and so on.  I did not create a GridPresenter class but just sent
messages directly from the Shell to AXControlSite controlDispatch.

The thing that attracted me to BeeGrid was its builtin support for a combo
box in a cell, as well as check box (for booleans), though dates would've
been nice too, thus allowing editing-in-place, which I don't think the
MSFlexGrid supports directly.

-- Louis

Thanks for the information on this.  Do you have any sample code for this
that I could look at?  I was under the impression that it was not possible
to use the GUI based ActiveX controls, perhaps my confusion is that these
items will not show up as resources?
Regards,
  Gary

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Gary,

"Gary Overgard" <[hidden email]> skrev i meddelandet
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> I was under the impression that it was not possible
> to use the GUI based ActiveX controls, perhaps my confusion is that these
> items will not show up as resources?

Actually there is no such limitation in Dolphin 4.0 but there was in older
versions. I have wrapped two or three visual ActiveX controls as basic MVP
components (that show up as rescources in the toolbox of the ViewComposer)
and I have written a simple pattern that I have used successfully on those
controls. If you would like to try the pattern, it can be found at
http://svane.swiki.net/2 . Of course I would welcome any feedback on the
pattern.

Best regards,

Mikael Svane
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Mikael
I am excited, I will try this out & give you feedback on anything that
causes any particular problems.  Thanks for publishing such a useful
pattern.  This should be advertised by Dolphin, as I suspect most people are
under the impression that it is not possible to do this.
--Gary

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> Gary,
>
> "Gary Overgard" <[hidden email]> skrev i meddelandet
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> > I was under the impression that it was not possible
> > to use the GUI based ActiveX controls, perhaps my confusion is that
these