TXDBGrid component is a powerful functional extension of standard TDBGrid component.
TXDBGrid component looks beautiful and implements many additional features like: fixed columns, fixed styles
(flat and 3D), Windows XP themes, many variants of gradient drawing style, enhanced flat and 3D scrollbars,
proportional scrolling for any DataSet even filtered, expandable columns and title headers, checkboxes,
hot buttons, title and indicator images, many variants of pictures drawing into cells, title markers and
multicolumns sorting, enhanced lookup lists, pick lists and drop-down lists, calculator, calendar, storing and
loading columns layout (to ini file, registry, stream, string), enhanced support for bdRightToLeft BiDiMode,
extended rows selection and notification, multiline rows and auto-numbering, hints, tooltips, column stretching
and many many more ...
TXDBGrid 4.1 offers in addition: auto-updated quick sequence number,
auto-changed sorting order for all standard DataSet descendants (ADO, BDE, CDS, DBX, IBX), auto-calculated
totals values for whole DataSet and/or for SelectedRows, 4 kinds of integrated totals footers, many variants
of drawing totals cells according to current FixedStyle & FixedTheme and some others improvements.
TXDBGrid component is fully compatible with standard TDBGrid and can be used as a replacement without losing
existing settings. It's also compatible with Windows XP and Windows Vista and can take advantage of Windows XP/Vista styles (themes).
TXDBGrid has its own ColumnEditor, which can fully support all new column's properties.
TXDBNavigator represents a gradient database navigator. TXDBNavigator is a functional
extension of standard TDBNavigator. TXDBNavigator introduces several new properties to control border of buttons,
gradient drawing style and parent's background.
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Overview
Main advantages of TXDBGrid:
- Excellent context help system (over 370 topics)
- Hints and ToolTips for data cells
- Hints for titles, headers, indicator and filler
- User defined markers list (TitleMarkers)
- User defined indicators list (IndicatorImages)
- User defined pictures list for columns (Images)
- Pictures for titles and filler (TitleImages)
- Many variants of pictures drawing into cells (ImageDraw)
- Autotoggled markers for multicolumns sorting (OrderFields)
- Support for fixed columns and styles (FixedCols, FixedStyle)
- Support for bdRightToLeft BiDiMode for Middle Eastern locale
- Support for mouse wheels and drag & drop for selected rows
- Support for save and restore row position in the grid
- Extended rows selection and notification (OnRowSelect)
- Additional options for pick/lookup lists (ListOptions)
- Additional options for PickList/PickText (PickOptions)
- Stretching columns to grid client area (StretchMode)
- Multiline rows, title buttons, headers and many more ...
See also, what new was introduced in version 3.x.
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Gallery
Below they are located some screenshots of the demo applications included in all packages.
Click on selected screenshot to see its bigger version.
| X-DBGrid Test for ADO, BDE, IBX |
| Classic Windows Style |
Windows XP Style |
| Classic Windows Style |
Windows XP Style |
| Windows Vista Style |
Windows Vista Style |
History
X-Files Components 1.0 (June 14, 1999). First version for Delphi 4.
X-Files Components 1.1 (July 4, 1999). First version for Delphi 3.
X-Files Components 1.2 (September 9, 1999).
- New Option - dgIndicatorMarkOff
- New properties - ImageOffsetX, ImageOffsetY
- New properties - CheckBox, CheckBoxValues, CheckBoxToggle
- New procedures - IsCheckBoxValue, ToggleCheckBoxValue
X-Files Components 1.3 (October 16, 1999). First version for Delphi 5.
X-Files Components 1.4 (December 18, 1999).
- New Option - dgAllowDeleteOff, dgAllowInsertOff
- New properties - StretchMode, StretchWidthMax, StretchWidthMin, WidthBase
- New properties - ScrollBarHeight, ScrollBarWidth, TrueWidth
- New procedures - StretchGrid
- New events - OnColumnResize, OnColumnScroll, OnRowScroll
X-Files Components 1.5 (March 26, 2000).
- New properties - FillerButton, FillerColor, FixedCols, FixedStyle
- New properties - RowHeight, TitleHeight
- New events - OnFillerClick
X-DBGrid Component 2.0 (June 24, 2000).
- New procedures - HeaderLeft, HeaderRight
- New procedures - DisableGrid, EnableGrid, GridDisabled
- New properties - Report (Visible, TotalType, TotalText, TotalMask)
X-DBGrid Component 2.1 (November 7, 2000).
- New Option - dgMarkerAutoToggle, dgMarkerAscendOnly
- New properties - FillerHint, FillerIndex, FillerPopupMenu, HintOptions, IndicatorImages, IndicatorPopupMenu, IndicatorWidth, OrderFields, TitleImages, TitleMarkers, LastShiftState
- New properties - ColLineWidth, RowLineWidth, Indicators, Markers
- New events - OnCalcImageIndex, OnCellHint, OnIndicatorClick, OnOrderChanged
- New procedures - BeginOrderUpdate, EndOrderUpdate, SetupOrderFields
- New properties - EditorHint, ToolTips, ToolTipsWidth, TransparentColor, Images, AutoToggle, Hint, HeaderHint, HeaderHintRows, ImageIndex, MarkerIndex, OrderIndex
- New procedures - ToggleMarker, UpdateMarkers
- New procedures - ModifyOrderFileds, ExtractOrderFields, CommaToSemicolon, SemicolonToComma
X-DBGrid Component 2.2 (March 21, 2001).
- Context help system
- Custom multiline editor
- Support for BiDiMode property
X-DBGrid Component 2.3 (July 17, 2001). First version for Delphi 6.
X-DBGrid Component 2.4 (November 25, 2001).
- New Options - dgAutoUnselectOff, dgExtendedSelect
- New properties - SelectionAnchor, DragRows
- New procedures - SelectAll, SelectRows, InvertAll, InvertRows, UnselectAll, UnselectRows, ColGetText, ColSetText, DisablePosition, EnablePosition, PositionDisabled
- New events - OnColGetText, OnColSetText
- New properties - ListOptions (loAutoDropDown, loSelectNextValue, loAllowClearValue), PickOptions (poDropDownList, poListItemOnly, poSelectPickText, poStoreItemIndex, poAcceptPickList, poAcceptItemIndex), PickText
X-DBGrid Component 2.5 (March 25, 2002).
- New Options - dgInternalSelect
- New HintOptions- hoDataHints, hoShowDataHints
- New properties - IndicatorHint, Column.Hint
- New events - OnColExpand, OnRowSelect
- New HintCell - hcData, hcIndicator
X-DBGrid Component 2.6 (September 17, 2002). First version for Delphi 7.
X-DBGrid Component 3.0 (September 7, 2003). First version for C++Builder 5 & 6.
- New Options - dgForceSequence, dgThumbTracking, dgHotButtons
- New properties - RecNumber, RecCount, AutoNumber, FixedTheme, GridStyle
- New procedures - ForcedSequence, UpdateSequence, IsGridThemed
- New class - TGridStyle (DataRowSpace, HeaderRowSpace, TitleRowSpace, TitleColMargin, VisualStyle)
X-DBGrid Component 3.2 (March 15, 2004). First version for Delphi 8 for .NET.
X-DBGrid Component 3.3 (July 20, 2004).
- New properties - Ctl3DAuto, DoubleBuffered, EditorColor, FocusRect, HotButtons, ListBorder, MarkerStyle, MarkerTransparent, ResizeOptions, ScrollProp, SelectionColor, SelectRowColor, StripeColor, WheelScrollRows, OnExpandClick, FlatSBMode, Position, DataRowCount, ColumnsWidth, FixedColsWidth
- New methods - ColumnAtDepth, DefaultEditorColor, DefaultSelectionColor, DefaultSelectRowColor, DefaultStripeColor, DropDownMenu, DropDownPoint, GotoPosition, MouseWheelScrollRows, ThemesEnabled
- New properties - CheckBoxKind, CheckBoxStyle, DialogOptions, DropDownMenu, DropDownWidth, ExpandCols, ExpandStyle, Visibility, Report.DialogOptions, Title.DropDownMenu
- New class - TXScrollProp(AutoHidden, Color, ParentColor, ParentStyle, Style, ThumbBar, WinXPMode)
X-DBGrid Component 3.4 (October 8, 2004). First version for Delphi 2005 (.NET & Win32).
- New events - OnMouseWheel, OnMouseWheelDown, OnMouseWheelUp, OnMouseActivate
- New method - DefaultSelectCellColor
- New property - SelectCellColor
X-DBGrid Component 3.5 (April 10, 2005).
- New properties - LookupDataSet, LookupKeyField, LookupListFields
- New ButtonStyle- cbsCalculator, cbsCalendar
- New ListOptions- loShowToday, loShowTodayCircle, loShowWeekNumbers
- New event - OnCalcBoldDays
- New unit - XDBFields
- New function - FieldGraphicClass
- New classes - TXBlobField, TXGraphicField
X-DBGrid Component 3.6 (October 1, 2005). First version for BDS 2006.
- New properties - Settings, AutoStretch
- New event - OnLayout
- New method - MoveTo
- New class - TXDBGridSettings
+ properties - Active, FileName, IniFile, Layout, Options, Section
+ methods - ApplyLayout, EraseLayout, LayoutExists, LoadLayout, ReadLayout, SaveLayout, DefaultFileName, DefaultSection
- New variables - DefaultDelimiter, DefaultIniFileName, DefaultRegistryKey
- New functions - ScanStr, ScanInt
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DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTY
PRODUCT IS PROVIDED "AS IS" WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND. THE AUTHOR DISCLAIMS
ALL WARRANTIES, EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED, WITHOUT LIMITATION, THE WARRANTIES OF
MERCHANTABILITY AND OF FITNESS FOR ANY PURPOSE. THE AUTHOR ASSUMES NO LIABILITY
FOR DAMAGES, DIRECT OR CONSEQUENTIAL, WHICH MAY RESULT FROM THE USE OF THIS PRODUCT.
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