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DBARANAS

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Re: Palette Problem
« Reply #15 on: August 16, 2006, 11:07:33 PM »
I went to datagridviews and solved the problem. The ENTER key now works. I also struggled on how to show a grid by rows instead of collumns.

This is valuable if you want to display items in a row instead of scrolling across lots of collumns like the datadridview typically works. Everything on the forms is like this now..I had 400 controls and I replaced them all by putting them into 10 grids.

I searched for 2 weeks to find how to do this with a grid and then had to figure it out. I think this is a nice way to display things in a CAD app...here is what I did....

    Public Sub DVGTest()

        With dgvDebugList  'A datagridview on a form

            .ColumnCount = 11
            .RowCount = 100

            For Each column As DataGridViewColumn In dgvDebugList.Columns
                Select Case column.Index
                    Case 0
                        column.HeaderCell.Value = column.Index & "DVG Test"
                        column.SortMode = DataGridViewColumnSortMode.NotSortable
                End Select
            Next

            For Each row As DataGridViewRow In dgvDebugList.Rows
                Dim chk As DataGridViewCheckBoxCell = New DataGridViewCheckBoxCell()
                Dim txt As DataGridViewTextBoxCell = New DataGridViewTextBoxCell()
                Select Case row.Index
                    Case 0
                        row.HeaderCell.Value = "allowMakeBnd"
                        row.Cells(0) = txt : txt.Value = SetupItems.allowMakeBnd
                    Case 1
                        row.HeaderCell.Value = "bAutotests"
                        row.Cells(0) = chk : chk.Value = SetupItems.bAutotests
                    Case 2
                        row.HeaderCell.Value = "bBuildPreview"
                        row.Cells(0) = chk : chk.Value = SetupItems.bBuildPreview
                    Case 3
                        row.HeaderCell.Value = "bColor"
                        row.Cells(0) = chk : chk.Value = SetupItems.bColor
                    Case 4
                        row.HeaderCell.Value = "bDimension"
                End Select
            Next

            Me.Controls.Add(dgvDebugList)

        End With

    End Sub

MickD

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Re: Palette Problem
« Reply #16 on: August 16, 2006, 11:48:08 PM »
That looks good Dave, so I'd imagine it has scroll bars bottom and side?
Fair bit of data to deall with there also 1000 cells!
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DBARANAS

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Re: Palette Problem
« Reply #17 on: August 17, 2006, 12:17:33 AM »
Hi Mick,

yes it has all that!

I am very proud that I googled my brains out, never found an answer, then did it the hard way and came up with something perfect for me. Put this into a tool palette and I am well on my way to making a professional CAD app.

BTW I gave up on that idea of putting up tool palettes horizontally. I make tool pallettes on the left that I switch is the best way to make a GUI for CAD

I will post a better example if anyone wants it.

DBARANAS

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Re: Palette Problem
« Reply #18 on: August 17, 2006, 12:26:46 AM »
Correction.

Although tha classes may have over 1000 properties, lots of them are array() properties.

They each get their own collumn, so the size rarely exceeds a rowcount of 100.

BTW that was my debug grid.

I use a combo to switch grids and it does the work with hardly a refresh delay

It works really well switching classes into grids.

The only reason I even do thiis is to trap errors....in VBA this was vet simple

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Re: Palette Problem
« Reply #19 on: August 17, 2006, 12:30:00 AM »
Nice job, very slick!
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DBARANAS

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Re: Palette Problem
« Reply #20 on: August 17, 2006, 12:37:29 AM »
Thanks Mick!

it is way too $$% Slick. I wish my programming ability was as slick as my ideas

90% of my efforts are figuring out a way to make code do what I want.

That one was a bitch....But I had to have it. Now that I have it everything else falls into place.

Dave


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Re: Palette Problem
« Reply #21 on: August 17, 2006, 12:49:19 AM »
Quote
90% of my efforts are figuring out a way to make code do what I want.

If it was easy, everyone would be doing it :D
"Short cuts make long delays,' argued Pippin.”
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DBARANAS

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Re: Palette Problem
« Reply #22 on: August 17, 2006, 12:56:43 AM »
Touche!!

You got a good point.

Otherwise I would "wind up working at a gas station" - Frank Zappa 1976





Glenn R

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Re: Palette Problem
« Reply #23 on: August 17, 2006, 02:03:31 AM »
Very slick Dave - nice work. Did you consider using a "propertygrid"? I use these for configuration on a dialog (if it requires it) fired from a "settings" button. The beauty of them is that you can design a class, which needs certain attributes and tell the grid to use it and it will display it. It's also easy to serialise as well. I should have thought of this before and mentioned it earlier.

If any one wants to see an example, let me know.

Cheers,
Glenn.

Draftek

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Re: Palette Problem
« Reply #24 on: August 17, 2006, 07:39:11 AM »
Count 1.

I'd like to see it.

Glenn R

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Re: Palette Problem
« Reply #25 on: August 17, 2006, 07:19:04 PM »
Here you go - ponder the attached. It's fairly straighforward.

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Re: Palette Problem
« Reply #26 on: August 17, 2006, 08:20:31 PM »
The concept is quite good and easy to implement but I had some trouble using autocad object properties with the prop's grid in that it crashed when trying to update them. Properties of user defined classes are a snap though and the grid attributes save quite a bit of work.

I probably could have explored the problem further but put it in the too hard basket for now :)
« Last Edit: August 17, 2006, 08:22:13 PM by MickD »
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Glenn R

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Re: Palette Problem
« Reply #27 on: August 17, 2006, 09:03:55 PM »
I'm quite liking them actually, for the exact same reasons you just stated there Mick.
The property grid would be ideal to throw on a palette me thinks...

Glenn R

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Re: Palette Problem
« Reply #28 on: August 17, 2006, 09:04:59 PM »
Got an example of how you were using it with AutoCAD objects handy Mick?

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Re: Palette Problem
« Reply #29 on: August 17, 2006, 09:25:06 PM »
I'll see if I kept the code, if not I'll knock something up, brb.
"Short cuts make long delays,' argued Pippin.”
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