About MS Flex Grid - Tell me
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> > > Does anyone know how to make the width of each column equal to the
> widest
> > > data in the field?.........................
> >.................
> > This is the quick 'visual' programming way. These days, I dont use db
> > grids anymore. The M$Flex is faster. I hate monopoly too, but the M$Flex
> > is better.
> I haven't apparently been in VB programming long enough & I haven't heard of
> the MSFlex. Can you tell me more about it -
> (details?/downloadable?/price?/shareware?/etc)
> David Wier
> http://www.flash.net/~dwier
M$Flex Grid is the M$ replacement for the non-data-bound GRID control
that was in VB4. M$Flex comes WITH VB5. Its a Micro$oft product.
Its a non-data-bound grid that *can* be bound to a data control for
read-only ops if you want to. I didnt like it at first, but now i do. It
runs a tad faster than my old db-bound grids. It's less 'volatile' in
terms of user selection of rows: I dont have to do as much error
trapping and its easier to select rows and work with results.
I have made my own small personal 'library' of routines to use with
M$Flex, and if you use Enum and Collections judiciously, the coding can
be quite readable. The only drawback is you cannot 'visually program'
the grid at design time. But what the hell, you cant have *everything*.
M$Flex has some cool properties: TextMatrix, Clear, among others.
-- thomas --
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