Re: TMultiView, open-source flexible display component (alpha release)

From: Herbert Sitz (hsitz_at_nwlink.com)
Date: 06/13/04

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    Date: Sat, 12 Jun 2004 20:35:59 -0700

    "marek jedlinski" <marek@tranglos.INVALID.com> wrote in message
    news:1eanc01a4mln73193s0kj627tn8mt3hd3a@4ax.com...
    > On Sat, 12 Jun 2004 17:33:41 -0700, "Herbert Sitz" <hsitz@nwlink.com>
    > wrote:
    >
    >
    > >I can't tell from the screenshot or description: How is the TMultiView
    > >component different from the standard DBCtrlGrid vcl control that's
    shipped
    > >with Delphi?
    >
    > I did say it was hard to describe, but I hoped the screenshot would help
    :)
    > A grid gives you a matrix of cells: all cells must be aligned vertically,
    > all cells in a column must have the same width and each row must have the
    > same number of cells.
    >
    > MultiView is not a matrix, it does not have columns. Each row can have a
    > different number of cells and each cell can have a different width.
    >

    Sorry, I still don't see any major difference, except that from what I can
    tell DBCtrlGrid is probably more flexible than MultiView. Have you ever
    used the DBCtrlGrid? It's not really a grid, it's just a way to show
    multiple records at the same time in a flexible format. The DBCtrlGrid is
    not organized by columns, either. It contains cells, and each cell displays
    a single record of data using any data controls you want in any format you
    want: 3 across; 2 rows of 3 across; 2 rows with 1st row having 2 controls
    second row having 4 controls, etc.

    Plus, the cells of a DBCtrlGrid can be arranged in different ways, 1 cell by
    n rows, 2 cells by n rows, 3 cells by n rows, etc.

    I still don't see the difference. Everything you've said about MultiView
    seems to me to apply to DBCtrlGrid as well.

    -- Herb Sitz

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