Merging controls

Has anyone ever put a checkbox inside a cell of the MSFlexGrid control?

TIA
Nate

there are two answers:

1)the simple one is IT CAN'T BE DONE - MSFlexGrid is a grid of Text entries.
The cells in the grid are text entries only. To get what you want, try TrueDBGrid
from APEX, or VSFlexGrid from VideoSoft, or DataWidgets from Sheridan - all
of these give infinitly more possibilities for Grids that does the lowly
MSFlexGrid (or it's cousing the Hierarchical FLex Grid)

2) With a great deal of very painful coding, you can make it LOOK like you
have placed anoth control in the cells of a MSFlexGrid. It involves palceing
the controls ON TOP(not in) of the grid, by setting the Top, Left, Height
and Width of the controls that you want to make appear as if they were in
the grid. (Yucky code, especially if you want to allow the users to manipulate
the gid in any way (like resizing columns or rows)

My advice- get a third party Grid COntrol.

Arthur Wood


"Nate" <nkane@enak.com> wrote:
>
>Has anyone ever put a checkbox inside a cell of the MSFlexGrid control?
>
>TIA
>Nate

Or Sheridan UltraGrid - http://www.shersoft.com

"Arthur Wood" <wooda@saic-trsc.com> wrote in message
news:39fef796@news.devx.com...
>
> there are two answers:
>
> 1)the simple one is IT CAN'T BE DONE - MSFlexGrid is a grid of Text
entries.
> The cells in the grid are text entries only. To get what you want, try
TrueDBGrid
> from APEX, or VSFlexGrid from VideoSoft, or DataWidgets from
Sheridan - all
> of these give infinitly more possibilities for Grids that does the
lowly
> MSFlexGrid (or it's cousing the Hierarchical FLex Grid)
>
> 2) With a great deal of very painful coding, you can make it LOOK like
you
> have placed anoth control in the cells of a MSFlexGrid. It involves
palceing
> the controls ON TOP(not in) of the grid, by setting the Top, Left,
Height
> and Width of the controls that you want to make appear as if they were
in
> the grid. (Yucky code, especially if you want to allow the users to
manipulate
> the gid in any way (like resizing columns or rows)
>
> My advice- get a third party Grid COntrol.
>
> Arthur Wood
>
>
> "Nate" <nkane@enak.com> wrote:
> >
> >Has anyone ever put a checkbox inside a cell of the MSFlexGrid
control?
> >
> >TIA
> >Nate
>

yeah, that one also...LOL

I wasn't trying to be exhaustive nor was I trying to plug on comapny over
another.

"Tim Hitchings \(Sheridan\)" <timh@shersoft.com> wrote:
>Or Sheridan UltraGrid - http://www.shersoft.com
>
>"Arthur Wood" <wooda@saic-trsc.com> wrote in message
>news:39fef796@news.devx.com...
>>
>> there are two answers:
>>
>> 1)the simple one is IT CAN'T BE DONE - MSFlexGrid is a grid of Text
>entries.
>> The cells in the grid are text entries only. To get what you want, try
>TrueDBGrid
>> from APEX, or VSFlexGrid from VideoSoft, or DataWidgets from
>Sheridan - all
>> of these give infinitly more possibilities for Grids that does the
>lowly
>> MSFlexGrid (or it's cousing the Hierarchical FLex Grid)
>>
>> 2) With a great deal of very painful coding, you can make it LOOK like
>you
>> have placed anoth control in the cells of a MSFlexGrid. It involves
>palceing
>> the controls ON TOP(not in) of the grid, by setting the Top, Left,
>Height
>> and Width of the controls that you want to make appear as if they were
>in
>> the grid. (Yucky code, especially if you want to allow the users to
>manipulate
>> the gid in any way (like resizing columns or rows)
>>
>> My advice- get a third party Grid COntrol.
>>
>> Arthur Wood
>>
>>
>> "Nate" <nkane@enak.com> wrote:
>> >
>> >Has anyone ever put a checkbox inside a cell of the MSFlexGrid
>control?
>> >
>> >TIA
>> >Nate
>>
>
>