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NextGrid & NextDBGrid

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

NextGrid

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

NextDBGrid

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

NextInspector

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

NextSheet

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

NextCollection

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

Misc

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

Labs

• NxReport Project

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Vista Style Guidelines for NextGrid

In this tutorial we will explain how to have upcoming Microsoft(tm) Windows(tm) Vista(tm) styled Grids in your applications.



New Windows(tm) Vista(tm) style of Grid introduce new design guidelines:

1. Vertical 3D (Beveled) grid lines
2. New Header Style with Sort Indicator centered inside Header.
3. Slightly larger font size than before
4. Grayed Cells, except Cells inside Sorted Column.
5. Grayed text inside Cells

Step by Step

1. Place NextGrid component on Form and change Color to $00F0F0F0 (very light gray)

2. Set HeaderStyle property to hsVista, and SortedStyle to soWhite

First property will change appearance of Column Headers.

Second property will ensure that sorted column will be painted in White color. This will give very nice effect where sorted column will look like to be on lower plane than other columns:



3. Set Font.Name property of NextGrid1 to "Lucida Sans Unicode" or "Arial", and set Font.Size property of NextGrid1 to 9.

With this Font settings, our Grid Headers will look like:



4. Set flag ao3DGridLines in AppearanceOptions property of Grid to True.

This will turn ON 3D Grid Lines in Grid:



Now we will turn on only vertical grid lines with setting GridLinesStyle to lsVerticalOnly

5. Now we will add some Columns, and set Color to be same as Color of Grid: $00F0F0F0

Also, we will set same Font for Column as for Grid, but Font Color will be a little bit lighter:



Our tutorial is completed. Now we need to add some rows and data.