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Thread Masoud re: DBGrids
Fri, Jun 10 2016 8:57 AMPermanent Link

Roy Lambert

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Masoud

Here's a new thread to discuss DBGrids

What is out there depends on what you want, and how you want to do it. Essentially the dbgrids I've looked at split into two main camps:

1. based on TStringGrid (or linear descendent)

2. based on TDBGrid

The former generally speaking offer more facilities (eg sort by any column or combination of columns) but they come at the cost of having to load the entire dataset into the grid. Good examples of type 1 are TMS and DevEx - big, powerful, will do just about anything you can think of.

At the other end of the scale you get type 2 grids such as Scalabium's freeware which looks pretty good but is nowhere near as powerful as TMS or DEvEx. The grid I personally use is derived from an older version of Scalabium's but enhanced with in-grid editors and a few other things.

Two good ones are:

NextGrid - www.bergsoft.net
XDBGrid - www.x-files.pl/components/xdbgrid.html

You could also go onto Torry.net and put dbgrid into its search box

What I would recommend is before you start looking list what it is you actually want out of the grid - "good looking" is not a good start point since it can mean a lot of different things.

Roy Lambert
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