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NextGrid & NextDBGrid

• Html Column Tutorial
• Upgrade existing projects for loading changes
• Edit events in NextGrid
• NextGrid Vista Style
• NextGrid How To
• Integrating Inplace Editors
• NextGrid Slide Style Tutorial
• InputLine Tutorial
• FieldChooser Tutorial
• Using Editors in runtime
• Grid Report Tutorial

NextGrid

• TreeColumn Tutorial
• NextGrid Quick Start
• Custom Draw in NextGrid
• Export to XML from NextGrid
• Optimize NextGrid
• NextGrid Custom Sorting
• VirtualColumn Tutorial
• Graphic Column Tutorial

NextDBGrid

• NextDBGrid Quick Start
• NextDBGrid Events
• NextDBGrid How To
• Sorting records in NextDBGrid
• LookupColumn Tutorial

NextInspector

• NextInspector Advanced tutorial
• ToolbarItem tutorial
• NextDBInspector Tutorial
• NextInspector Item Types
• Map VCL property to item
• NextInspector Quick Start

NextSheet

• NextSheet Sample Project
• NextSheet Quick Start
• Formating in NextSheet
• NextSheet Print Method

NextCollection

• NxAlertWindow Tutorial
• NxInfoPanel Tutorial
• Vista Styled Panels
• NxPathControl and NxNotebook tutorial
• NxPathControl Quick Start
• NxFlipPanel and NxHeaderPanel Quick Start
• NxOutlookBar Tutorial
• NxPageControl and NxNotebook Quick Start
• NxButton Tutorial

Misc

• Component Names Change
• NxComboBox styles
• Numeric FormatMask
• NxVirtualDataSet tutorial
• DateTime FormatMask
• NxPreview Quick Start
• 32bit Bitmaps Tutorial
• Quick update
• Enable typing unicode characters in InplaceEditors
• Using NxColorScheme
• NxProgress Tutorial
• NxAutoCompletion Tutorial

Labs

• NxReport Project

NextGrid .NET

• Working with tree
• Custom Drawing in NextGrid dot NET
• NextGrid Dot Net
• NextGrid Dot Net Events
• NextGrid dot NET Quick Start

Related Articles:

Next Grid can represent data in 2 global Visual Styles Report and Slides

This 2 styles share Columns Settings, Rows and Cells, and Style can be changed at any time with one property: GridStyle

To change style to Slides, set GridStyle property to gsSlides.



Working with Slides is almost same as working with Report. Style can be switched any time and both styles share all data.

Each Slide represent one row, same as in Report Style, but in Slide rows, Cell can be postitioned at any position in row.

Size of each Slide is determined by SlideSize property. SlideSize is usualy set to Value larger than 50.

Position and size cell within slide is specified by SlideBounds property of Column.



In this example we will move cell to Position: X: 120, Y: 20 and cell will have size 120 x 16.



NextGrid also include integrated Design-time Slides Editor which may be picked after right click on component.



After editor is open, work with them is very similar to work with Form Designed from Delphi/CBuilder IDE. Cell may be moved within slide, resized and configured as usuall in ObjectInspector.



Important properties to know are SlideCaption and SlideCaptionLocation. With this 2 properties every cell may have additional caption attached on one of the sides. This "captions" are visible with designer too.

Additional adjustments

SlideSelectionColor property determine color of border around selected slide. Selection of cells may be turned off by setting flag soHideSelection in SlideOptions property.

SlidesOptions property provide access to next flags:

Slide Options flags

Name	Meaning
soFrame	When True, frame will be drawn around selected slide.
soHideSelection	When True, selected frame will be drawn if focused into SlideSelectionColor Color, otherwise in clBtnFace color.

SlideAnchors

Version 5.3 introduce a SlideAnchors property for column which give a control of slide resizing.