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- From: ldg@cbnewsh.cb.att.com (lawrence.d.goldsmith)
- Subject: Re: MONEY to be made: VB & Grid Control!
- Organization: AT&T
- Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 13:54:05 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Sep2.135405.21751@cbnewsh.cb.att.com>
- References: <anderson.27.715355124@mayo.edu>
- Lines: 43
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- From article <anderson.27.715355124@mayo.edu>, by anderson@mayo.edu (Alfred I. Anderson):
- > 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
- > -----------------------------------------------------------------
- I believe that the answer to your problem is the MhSpread control that
- is part of VBTools Version 2 from MicroHelp. There phone number is:
- 800-922-3383
-
- MhSpread supports all the things that you were talking about. In addition
- VBTools also has numerous other custom controls too.
-
- Larry Goldsmith ldg@hoqaa.att.com
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