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- From: tmurphy@well.sf.ca.us (Thomas Murphy)
- Subject: Re: MONEY to be made: VB & Grid Control!
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- References: <anderson.27.715355124@mayo.edu>
- Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 17:27:03 GMT
- Lines: 48
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- In article <anderson.27.715355124@mayo.edu> anderson@mayo.edu (Alfred I. Anderson) writes:
- >Several days ago I posted a message asking if anyone had information on a
- >GRID control (like that distributed with the Visual Basic Professional
- >Toolkit) that provided the ability to have character attributes of Forecolor
- >and FontSize to be set on a Cell-by-Cell basis at run-time.
- >
- >I got an unexpected number of responses from people asking me to let them
- >know if I find such a control - they want it too.
- >
- >In fact, I think people might even PAY for such a control!
- >
- >
- >(The original note read:
- >Microsoft distributes the GRID control as an enhancement to Visual Basic in
- >the Professional Toolkit. It is a very useful control!
- >
- >Queston: How can the character attributes of forecolor and fontsize be set
- >on a CELL by CELL basis?
- >
- >It is easy to give the entire grid these attributes. However, I can't find
- >a way to adjust the attributes on a cell basis. For example, all numbers
- >appearing in Column 1 should be in black unless they are negative in which
- >case they should appear in red. Or, every 5th row should be printed in a
- >bold-face font, other rows printed in a normal font.
- >
- >Can anyone suggest a way of doing this?)
- >
- >
- >
- >Alfred
- >^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- >Alfred Anderson Internet: anderson@Mayo.edu
- >Mayo Foundation - Rochester MN 55905
- >-----------------------------------------------------------------
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-
- Having just looked at this...you would need to modify the control itself and
- I don't think you can do that....your only other option is to create your
- own grid control...thus the money to be made idea.....you should suggest
- this to ms though as they are interested in feedback for the next version
- etc.
-
- tom
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