Re: User customisable grid

Hello Michael,

I think that my library may fit your requirements.

You may follow news on our home page, or go to our support forum:
www.bergsoft.net/forum/

We are extending components every month (sometime twice per month). It is
not such powerfull as DevExpress, but I have targeting at first place on
speed, small footprint and easy to use. But, there is already some nice
features in grid such as TreeColumn, FixedCols and more. Before some time, I
was working alone but now there is a 2 more people with me.

Best regards
Boki (Berg)
www.bergsoft.net

"Michael Baytalsky" <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Hi Boki,

Marko is a owner of http://mxs.bergsoft.net/ and all content there.
I see, that's nice.

Since you've joined our conversation ;), could you, please comment on
my questions above. Marko has suggested several libraries to use
for the purpose of getting a complete set of contemporary
looking UI components. My problem with this approach is that -
that's exactly what I'm trying to avoid by all means (including
paying for expensive DevEx library). I need *one* comprehensive
set of components (supported by a nice developer ;)) which would
be compact, easy to install and update, solid, relatively small
footprint, easy to understand code, the components should be
designed to work together and be 100% compatible with each other
with same naming conventions, same property names for similar
properties, sharing theming and things like that. I see, that
you library has great potential in this respect (I didn't see the
source code, though, but the demos look very nice).
Are you planning to extend it in [near] future?

I'll appreciate your response.

Sincerely,
Michael



"Michael Baytalsky" <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Marko,

Thanks, I appreciate your response and will check out
the components you suggested. Sorry, I for some reason,
thought you were the owner of http://mxs.bergsoft.net.

Sincerely,
Michael

Marko Binic wrote:
I like your web site and your components a lot.
[...]

That's not my website - that's my friend's site :) My components are
free, you can find them here: http://mxs.bergsoft.net

1. I didn't find a toolbar components, except for those
using tb2000. Unfortunately, tb2000 demo is very buggy and
my attempts in the past to use tb2000 failed - somehow they
don't feel 100% solid.
TB2k is a stable and mature toolbar pack. If you ask me - it's the best
Delphi toolbar pack there is (when used with TBX) and a "work of art"
//an understaitment <g>

2. Luck of docking solution. Basically, toolbar and docks
are the main points of interest at this moment at least
from functionality perspective.
You mean lack, right? Take a look at the JvTBX Lib demo at my site,
JVCL docking components have been themed (by Kiriakos) and can be used
with TBX. You can find JVCL (another great and free Delphi pack) daily
packs at http://jvcl.sf.net/daily (you'll need JCL:
http://jcl.sf.net/daily , Make sure you get compatible packages = with
the same dates) and if you want stable go to http://jvcl.sf.net (and
http://jcl.sf.net ).

3. I've found a few bugs in your demos. E.g. in nextgrid_demo.zip
in SlideView scrolling (with mouse scroller or keyboard)
does not repaint screen correctly.
You should report the bugs you noticed to Boki - thos are his
components...

Therefore my question to you - as you're obviously an expert
in interface design - which components would you recommend to
someone, who would want to mimic VS 2005 look & feel completely.
I need: menu & toolbar, sidebar, dockers, tabset, component palette,
property editor, grid with tree column and a set of editors.
I need them all to be solid, look consistently, be able to
support themes and switch between XP, Office11, VS 2005, Delphi 2006
and other looks. Also, they should work and look decent under
Win2000 and preferably have smaller footprint and not be
too overloaded with unnecessary features (a feeling I always
get from DevEx is that it takes me longer to customize their
grid, then to paint it manually in DrawGrid ;)).
Not being the expert you were targeting I'll risk it and give you an
answer, you can use:

1) TB2k v2.2.0 (by Jordan Russell, www.jrsoftware.org )
2) TBX v2.1b (by Alex Denisov, www.g32.org ) + TB2k & TBX Patch (by
Vladimir Bochkarev, mirror here:
http://mxs.bergsoft.net/files/TBXPatch220.zip )
3) TBX Themes (by Roy Magne Klever, http://www.rmklever.com/delphitbx )
4) SpTBX Lib (by Robert Lee, http://club.telepolis.com/silverpointdev )
if you need Unicode support and some additional items. Robert has made
a MultiInstaller program which could help you install and patch the
components
5) If you want the docking components you'll need the JVCL and my JvTBX
Lib, also, for more TBX components you can use my mbTBX Lib

* If you need an Office 2007 style ribbon component look on the
MBRibbon forum on my site.

I hope that was helpful :)
Marko


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