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Table of contents
TABLE OF CONTENTS ........................................................................................................................................ 2
WELCOME ........................................................................................................................................................ 4
TADVSTRINGGRID AVAILABILITY ...................................................................................................................... 5
TADVSTRINGGRID DESCRIPTION ...................................................................................................................... 6
TADVSTRINGGRID MAIN FEATURES ................................................................................................................. 7
TADVSTRINGGRID USE ..................................................................................................................................... 8
TADVSTRINGGRID IMPORT & EXPORT CAPABILITIES ........................................................................................ 9
TADVSTRINGGRID SORTING CAPABILITIES ..................................................................................................... 17
TADVSTRINGGRID INPLACE EDITING .............................................................................................................. 25
TADVSTRINGGRID MOUSE AND NAVIGATION CONTROL ................................................................................ 50
TADVSTRINGGRID CELL AND CELL PROPERTIES ACCESS .................................................................................. 56
TADVSTRINGGRID CELL GRAPHICS ................................................................................................................. 59
USING A VERTICAL SCROLLBAR PER CELL IN TADVSTRINGGRID ...................................................................... 73
TADVSTRINGGRID HTML FORMATTED CELLS .................................................................................................. 76
TADVSTRINGGRID HTML FORMS .................................................................................................................... 81
TADVSTRINGGRID MISCELLANEOUS DISPLAY CONTROL ................................................................................. 83
TADVSTRINGGRID NODES .............................................................................................................................. 90
TADVSTRINGGRID FILTERING ......................................................................................................................... 93
TADVSTRINGGRID GROUPING ........................................................................................................................ 99
TADVSTRINGGRID PRINTING CAPABILITIES .................................................................................................. 105
TADVSTRINGGRID CLIPBOARD HANDLING ................................................................................................... 112
TADVSTRINGGRID FLOATING FOOTER USE ................................................................................................... 114
TADVSTRINGGRID SEARCH PANE ................................................................................................................. 117
TADVSTRINGGRID CELL MERGING ................................................................................................................ 120
TADVSTRINGGRID OLE DRAG & DROP .......................................................................................................... 122
TADVSTRINGGRID HIDDEN COLUMNS AND ROWS ....................................................................................... 125
TADVSTRINGGRID CELL FORMATTING .......................................................................................................... 127
TADVSTRINGGRID VIRTUAL CELLS ................................................................................................................ 130
TADVSTRINGGRID HINTS .............................................................................................................................. 132
TADVSTRINGGRID SEARCH & REPLACE TEXT ................................................................................................ 134
TADVSTRINGGRID DISJUNCT ROW, COLUMN AND CELL SELECTION ............................................................. 136
TADVSTRINGGRID CELL CHECK ARCHITECTURE ............................................................................................ 138
TADVSTRINGGRID ADD-ON DIALOGS ........................................................................................................... 140
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TADVSTRINGGRID UNICODE SUPPORT ......................................................................................................... 141
TADVSTRINGGRID UNDO/REDO ADD-ON COMPONENT ............................................................................... 143
TADVSTRINGGRID COLUMN STATE PERSISTENCE ......................................................................................... 144
TADVSTRINGGRID IMPORT/EXPORT TO XLS FILES VIA TADVGRIDEXCELIO ................................................... 146
TADVSTRINGGRID EXPORT TO RTF FILES VIA TADVGRIDRTFIO ..................................................................... 151
USING THE ICELLGRAPHIC INTERFACE FOR CELLS ......................................................................................... 152
USING THE COMPONENT TADVGRIDDROPDOWN ........................................................................................ 156
CUSTOMIZING THE ITEM CLASS IN TADVGRIDDROPDOWN .......................................................................... 160
TADVSTRINGGRID TIPS AND FAQ ................................................................................................................. 163
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Welcome
Welcome to the TAdvStringGrid Developer's Guide, created by tmssoftware.com.
At tmssoftware.com, we strive to produce world class software components that enable developers
to produce quality software for the most demanding of environments.
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TAdvStringGrid availability
TAdvStringGrid is available as VCL and VCL.NET component.
VCL versions:
TAdvStringGrid is available for Delphi 5,6,7,2005,2006,2007,2009,2010,XE and C++Builder
5,6,2006,2007,2009,2010,XE
TAdvStringGrid has been designed for and tested with: Windows 2000, 2003, 2008, XP, Vista,
Windows 7.
VCL.NET versions:
TAdvStringGrid is available for Delphi 2005,2006,2007.
