StringGrid and Horizontal Scroll Bars

[Dave]

I have a TStringGrid control on my form. The TStringGrid has the Scrollbars
property set to both, yet, when I set the first column of a two column grid
to fixed, the horizontal scroll bar does not display.

Also, When I have more than two columns on the grid, the Horizontal scroll
bar does work , however, it only jumps to the beginning of the next column
all the time.
I need the String Grid to allow character scrolling, not column scrolling.
Is this possible?

TIA
Dave

[Timothy H. Buchman]

No. TStringGrid scrolls by full columns, and only displays a partial
column/row on the right and bottom, when necessary. Note that the
reason a scroll bar appears is because of the need to see off-client
data, not because you have a fixed column. When goEditing is true,
you can move the cursor one character at a time. TStringGrid is not
as clever as Excel(R), say, but it's not a bad component. You might
want to explore free/shareware third-party grids at places like
www.torry.ru .

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[Dave]

"Timothy H. Buchman" <tbuc...@citycenter.org> wrote in message
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> No. TStringGrid scrolls by full columns, and only displays a partial
> column/row on the right and bottom, when necessary. Note that the
> reason a scroll bar appears is because of the need to see off-client
> data, not because you have a fixed column. When goEditing is true,
> you can move the cursor one character at a time. TStringGrid is not
> as clever as Excel(R), say, but it's not a bad component. You might
> want to explore free/shareware third-party grids at places like
> www.torry.ru .

I have searched www.torry.ru but can't seam to find the stringgrid
replacment.

I have got the TStringGrid to work though. What I did was simply place the
grid within a panel control. This way, the panel controls the scrolling,
not the grid. Works quite well as long as you don't need any fixed
columns/rows although I am sure that with a combination of controls it can
be done.

Cheers
Dave

[Jonathan Arnold]

> I have searched www.torry.ru but can't seam to find the stringgrid
> replacment.

There's a million of them out there. Here's a sampler of some I've found:

Orpheus by TurboPower : huge toolkit, pretty expensive, does everything
http://www.turbopower.com

ExpressGrid by Developer Express : http://www.devexpress.com/products/pexpgrid.html

Colosseum Builders TColossalGrid : For some reason they've stopped "supporting Borland
products", but:
http://www.colosseumbuilders.com/inprise.htm

Top Support's TopGrid : http://www.topsupport.com/

TMS software's TAdvStringGrid : I've used this one in the past and it's pretty good.
http://www.tmssoftware.com/

IMCA Systems TFlyGrid: http://www.imcasys.com/

Woll2Woll's Infopower: http://www.woll2woll.com

ProfGrid : http://www.geocities.com/profgrid

And, of course, check out Torry's for more:

http://www.torry.webnorth.com/index.htm

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