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NextGrid & NextDBGrid

• FieldChooser Tutorial
• NextGrid How To
• InputLine Tutorial
• Html Column Tutorial
• NextGrid Slide Style Tutorial
• Edit events in NextGrid

NextGrid

• NextGrid Quick Start
• Graphic Column Tutorial
• Optimize NextGrid
• Custom Draw in NextGrid
• VirtualColumn Tutorial
• NextGrid Custom Sorting
• TreeColumn Tutorial

NextDBGrid

• NextDBGrid Events
• NextDBGrid Quick Start
• LookupColumn Tutorial

NextInspector

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

NextSheet

• Formating in NextSheet
• NextSheet Quick Start

NextCollection

• NxInfoPanel Tutorial
• NxOutlookBar Tutorial
• NxPathControl and NxNotebook tutorial
• NxPathControl Quick Start
• NxButton Tutorial
• NxFlipPanel and NxHeaderPanel Quick Start
• NxPageControl and NxNotebook Quick Start

Misc

• DateTime FormatMask
• NxComboBox styles
• NxPreview Quick Start
• Numeric FormatMask
• Enable typing unicode characters in InplaceEditors
• 32bit Bitmaps Tutorial

Labs

• NxReport Project

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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.