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

[Paul Squires]

lol!  Well, I guess I will have to continue writing the grid after all. 

[Jean-pierre Leroy]

> 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)

Jose, thank you for your answer.

[Jean-pierre Leroy]

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

@Jose : Thank you for the test.

@Jose, @Paul
I will create another thread about yet another grid called Simple Grid (32 bits, 64 bits, Unicode and C source code available).
I've compiled the source with PellesC and created the 32 bits and 64 bits DLL (they are not available on CodeProject.com).
More info about Simple Grid : http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/681771/Simple-Grid-A-Win-message-based-grid-control
I hope Simple Grid will be High DPI aware.

[Jean-pierre Leroy]

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

Hi Paul,

David sent me a 64 bits version of the DLL for test; I swith your FireFly for FreeBASIC demo project to 64 bits.
I get this error message when I try to compile the project.
Any ideas how to solve it ?

[José Roca]

Change

CAST(HMENU, IDC_FRMMAIN_ZEEGRID)

to

CAST(HMENU, CAST(LONG_PTR, IDC_FRMMAIN_ZEEGRID))

[José Roca]

If you're going to use FreeBasic, learn how CAST works, because you're going to have to use it more often that any other FB function.

[Jean-pierre Leroy]

If you're goign to use FreeBasic, learn how CAST works, because you're going to have to use it more often that any other FB function.

@Jose, thank you for your help; it works now. And yes I will probably use more and more often FireFly for FreeBASIC. I will learn how to use CAST. I promise you.

@Paul,  in this specific case the code in the FRMMAIN_ZEEGRID_INIT handler is generated directly by FireFly ... so I think that you should adapt this code (if possible) depending on the mode 32 bits and/or 64 bits. Is-it possible ?

[Jean-pierre Leroy]

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

@Jose: As mentioned earlier, David sent me a 64 bits version of the DLL for test. I use it with FireFly for FreeBASIC 64 bits ... and so far so good.

[Paul Squires]

@Paul,  in this specific case the code in the FRMMAIN_ZEEGRID_INIT handler is generated directly by FireFly ... so I think that you should adapt this code (if possible) depending on the mode 32 bits and/or 64 bits. Is-it possible ?

Thanks Jean-Pierre, I have now corrected the code generation for Custom Controls to eliminate this compile error. The code is the same for both 32 and 64 bits.

[Jean-pierre Leroy]

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

David Hillard has officially released a 64 bits version of his grid ZeeGrid.

Announcement on his website:
http://www.kycsepp.com/ZeeGrid_Docs/zeegrid_build_37.html

[James Fuller]

One item I found missing is a combo box cell.
I used the old FarPoint Spread DLL (2.5/3.0) as my primary data input device with PowerBASIC back in my contracting days and most of the data forms I designed had at at least one static data item that the user selected via a cell combo box.

James

[Jean-pierre Leroy]

James,

I will take a look at FarPoint Spread DLL (2.5/3.0).

Regarding ZeeGrid it is possible to set a combo box at the cell level; there is a notification message called %ZGN_LOADCOMBO that allow to do that at cell level;you can have a look at the screenshot below.

[James Fuller]

Is it possible to do this with zeegrid?
This uses the row number col as a label to what is wanted in a one col grid.

James

[Jean-pierre Leroy]

Is it possible to do this with zeegrid?
This uses the row number col as a label to what is wanted in a one col grid.
James

I will try to do this kind of Grid with ZeeGrid; at least it is possible with MLG (MyLittleGrid) :