** NOTE ** This fork has had Nedko Ivanov's changes removed
Description of NiceGrid /author Priyatna/
NiceGrid is a Delphi component that aimed to be a standard string grid replacement. It is written from scratch, not descended from TStringGrid. The main reason why I write this component is to have a grid component that nice and smooth. Here's some feature of NiceGrid:
-
Headers can be merged and or multilined.
-
Smooth scrolling, not aligned to top left cell coordinate.
-
All aspect of grid colors can be customized: header light color, header dark color, header color, grid color, text color, etc.; resulting a real nice looking grid.
-
Alternate row color.
-
Can be customized at design time.
-
Each column can have its own horizontal and vertical alignment, color, and font.
-
Each column can be hidden.
-
Can be auto fit to width.
-
Can be auto calculate column width.
-
BeginUpdate and EndUpdate method for bulk cells access. Since it is a new component, there are several main differences between NiceGrid and TStringGrid:
-
Headers are excluded from cells, unlike TStringGrid that treats fixed rows as regular cells (Row 0, for example), Cells[0,0] in NiceGrid will access the top left editable cells, not fixed cell.
-
The only way to access the data is using Cells property or using direct array referencing style: NiceGrid1[0,0]. There are not (yet) Cols, or Rows property.
-
FixedRows -> Header, FixedCols -> Gutter.
For sample see BasicDemo
Change history:
2018-12-28:
- Reverted NiceGrid.pas to the original version from http://www.priyatna.org/nicegrid.php
- Modified CopyToClipboard and CutFromClipboard to add tab character only if s is non-blank, since the first column in the selection may not be visible
- Modified TNiceGrid.WMHScroll and TNiceGrid.WMVScroll to use HiWord(TMessage(Msg).WParam) for the Pos value because in TWMScroll, the Pos value is a SmallInt, turning values > 32768 into a negative value