iGrid Control
Current version4.0
Intro
iGrid is an ActiveX grid control. Its main idea is to provide the developers with a lightweight and easy-to-use grid control, which is super-fast, highly-adjustable and ideal for creating unbound grids first of all.
It is one of the best versatile and editable replacements for the Visual Basic ListView, VB DataGrid and FlexGrid (MSFlexGrid/MSHFlexGrid) controls.
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Some Distinctive Features
The highly optimized flicker-free display code makes this grid draw faster than FlexGrid and other VB grids.
You access each cell and its individual properties using the cell's row and column indices - as easy as in a two-dimensional array!
Each cell of iGrid can be formatted individually (even in the same column) using different format strings, fonts, colors, and other flags (horizontal/vertical alignment, an ellipsis at the end or middle of the truncated cell text, etc).
iGrid provides you with fast access to rows and columns by additional string keys which allow you to find the required row/column even after they were reordered.
Sorting can be multi-column with numerated sort icons using different sort criteria for each column (by raw cell data, as case-insensitive text, by icons, by colors, by fonts, etc - including custom sorting).
iGrid can emulate the Outlook messages list with message preview and supports virtual mode.
The rich event model helps you to control practically each aspect of the grid, including fine tuning of the editing process (key and mouse processing, data validation, etc).
Special scroll bar features allow you to display them always even if they are not needed or always hide them; an extended set of scroll bar events gives you control over each user action with the scroll bars.
iGrid works properly and fully supports the native OS look and feel including visual styles in such modern versions of Windows, as Windows XP, Vista and Windows 7!
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Real-world Applications
Usage in real-world apps is the best description of any component. Our iGrid is used by thousands customers throughout the world, and below is a screenshot of the network inventory system called NEWT developed by Komodo Laboratories:
 (Click to Enlarge)iGrid is the core component of the NEWT visual interface. It is intensively used in many forms to display tons of data about scanned computers. The cells are formatted on the fly and work fast for such big amounts of rows. Some of them contain progress bars to indicate the scan status for each pc; others display cool 32-bit icons with alpha-channel to give the user the best visual representation of retrieved information. In dialogs iGrid is used to adjust the list of columns allowing to do WinAMP-styled reordering of selected items. And all these things are put together by one more iGrid in which the built-in tree view feature is exploited!
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Supported Development Platforms (Visual Basic, VBA in MS Office, etc)
The most suitable development environments are Visual Basic 6 and MS Office VBA (Visual Basic for Application) with UserForms, though iGrid is also widely used in such development environments as different CAD systems.
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Constant support
We are proud to say that despite the fact of the .NET Framework widespread occurrence, we are still continuing the development of iGrid ActiveX. As a part of the everyday support process, we have a free library of code samples for iGrid to which we constantly add examples of the iGrid usage implemented for our customers.
What's new in the latest versions »
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