ZeeGrid a new and free grid available for PowerBASIC and Firefly users

[Jean-pierre Leroy]

ZeeGrid has been made by David Hillard and is completely free.

The DDL and the C header (ZeeGrid.h) are available on his web site :

http://www.kycsepp.com

For those of you that would like to test ZeeGrid with PowerBASIC and/or FireFly you will find below ZeeGrid.inc (my translation of the ZeeGrid.h); I hope there is no error.

I will try to create a .ctl file in order to have it fully integrated within FireFly.

Regards,
Jean-Pierre

PS: the ZeeGrid.inc has been updating; thanks to Jose.

[Eddy Van Esch]

Thanks for letting us know and for your .inc file, Jean-Pierre.
Too bad there is not (yet) a complete documentation of all the Messages/Commands.

Kind regards
Eddy

[Petrus Vorster]

Sounds very cool indeed. If someone has a few screenshots of this in action it would be very nice indeed if one can have a visual idea of what this looks like!
People creating cool controls for both Powerbasic and Firefly are great to have around for those of us who cant make them ourselves!

[José Roca]

The translation of the ZGNOTIFYSTRUCT structure is incorrect. It must be:

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' // Size = 28 bytes
Type ZGNOTIFYSTRUCT DWORD
ZGHeader  As NMHDR
ZGControl As Byte
ZGShift   As Byte
ZGAlt     As Byte
ZGvKey    As Long
End Type


[Jean-pierre Leroy]

Thank you Jose.

I've just uploaded a corrected version of ZeeGrid.inc

Regards,
Jean-Pierre

[Jean-pierre Leroy]

Thanks for letting us know and for your .inc file, Jean-Pierre.
Too bad there is not (yet) a complete documentation of all the Messages/Commands.

Kind regards
Eddy

Eddy, for your information David Hillard has just published complete documentation about ZeeGrid's messages and notifications.

http://www.kycsepp.com/ZeeGrid_Docs/ZeeGrid_index.html

[Jean-pierre Leroy]

Sounds very cool indeed. If someone has a few screenshots of this in action it would be very nice indeed if one can have a visual idea of what this looks like!
People creating cool controls for both Powerbasic and Firefly are great to have around for those of us who cant make them ourselves!

Petrus, for your information I've translated into PowerBASIC DDT code a C demo that David Hillard sent me.

The PowerBASIC DDT code is here:

http://forum.powerbasic.com/forum/user-to-user-discussions/third-party-addons/29100-zeegrid-any-experience?p=747001#post747001

I will prepare a PowerBASIC SDK demo as well as a FireFly demo

[Paul Squires]

Thanks Jean-Pierre,

I am going to work on a FreeBasic version as well. Nice to have another option for Grid controls. Maybe this grid will allow me not to have to finish the one that I started to create.

[José Roca]

But apparently it's only 32-bit, isn't it?

[Paul Squires]

Yes, it may very well be only 32-bit. It appears that Jean-Pierre has been in contact with the author. I wonder if the author will also compile the source for 64-bit.

[Paul Squires]

Attached is a simple FreeBasic FireFly project showing a demo of the grid.

[Jean-pierre Leroy]

@Paul
Thank you for the demo with FreeBASIC

@Jose, @Paul
I've just sent an email to David Hillard asking him if he can compile a 64 bits version of ZeeGrid.DLL.

[Jean-pierre Leroy]

@Paul,

I saw this line of code in the FreeBASIC demo:

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SendMessage hWndControl, ZGM_SETCELLTEXT, 1, Cast(LPARAM, @("First" & Chr(13) & "Column"))


How do you translate this line of code in PowerBASIC (my question is on the Cast operator) ?

[José Roca]

> How do you translate this line of code in PowerBASIC (my question is on the Cast operator) ?

You can't. You have to fill a variable and pass the address of the string text (VARPTR for ASCIIZ, STRPTR for STRING)

[José Roca]

Sorry, but I'm not going to use it. I have made a test and isn't adequate for High DPI applications.