Powerful grid

[Alan Freeman]

Hi There

I am new to the VCL / Delphi / C++ Builder world.

I work for a software house that writes financial software.

We are porting a real-time portfolio management system from Visual Basic to
C++ Builder but will be using VCL components written in Delphi as our main
grid.

We are trying to settle on an approach that will provide us with sufficient
flexbility but still provide raw update speed.

The grid will be used to display a dataset of up to 50,000 rows at any time
(by 20 columns).
Clearly they will not all be visible on the screen at one time.
* The data needs to be grouped
* And sorted
* Various calculations will be performed on this data - if the grid can do
this so much easier
* As we are using live price feeds, there could be around 150 rows changing
a second.
And there will be the occassional add and delete of a data item.

Clearly the grid that we use has to be virtual otherwise it will be of no
use to us.

If anyone in the Borland community has any commercial or other grids to
recommend or has worked on a similar project I would really appreciate any
advice you have to offer.

We would like to avoid writing our own grid from scratch, but would like the
source code to any grid that we buy or download so that we can modify it to
suit our needs.

Thanks for your help

Alan

[Mariella]

Maybe you should try TopGrid

http://www.objectsight.com/TopGridOverview.htm

Mariel

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