I am trying to add an EditBox and button (just as an example) to a Grid's Column as a child in Delphi 10.2/10.3. It looks fine during design-time, but completely disappears at runtime. As I assumed, those components are redrawn by the cells.
I've tried different simple steps, like reducing cell opacity, forcing them to be visible, bringing them to front, etc, but it nothing works.
In addition, the cells behind the components are not editable, so the components are blocking these cells but sort of invisible.
Is it possible to make them visible during runtime? I'd appreciate any ideas.
To clarify, I am not trying to fill rows and cells with these components. All that I need is to see and use them where I place them.
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I've been searching through here and googling like crazy for a possible solution to this problem. Thus far I'm turning up exactly nothing that actually fixes it so I'm hoping someone can help.
I'm working on the UI for a iPad app. I'm doing it using interface builder. I worked with storyboards briefly but I don't like them all that much so I'm sticking with IB for now. Unfortunately I'm not very experienced with the workings of IOS Ui but it's been going relatively smoothly so far. In my app, I have a view controller, which holds a view containing a pair of sub views. One subview contains a rather windows like header bar (i like the look). The second contains a UITableView. The UITableView is set up properly as far as I can tell, and feeds it's info from a data source using custom UITableViewCells. The UITableView is set to grouped though currently there is only one section. The table is in edit mode by default because I want the user to be able to add new items and use the VC as a selection dialog. The view controller is presented (rather than pushed) using UIModalPresentationFormSheet (again, because I like the view) but I don't know that has any bearing on the problem. The cell border is flush with the X origin, the only reason the text isn't currently starting there is because I went into my cell and move the label over, leaving a gap between the edge of the cell and the label containing my text.
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The Problem: The UITableViewCells, for some reason are positioning themselves at X: 0. This puts them outside the border drawn on the UITablewView when you set it to grouped style. I could probably just turn off the border and get away with it, but I like the look so i want to keep it. I've tried messing around with constraints and anchor points on the cells, the content of the cells, the table itself, the view... I've tried simply moving my cell's labels over a bit. I've also had clipping subviews turned on and off. I've made sure the controls are being loaded properly from the XIB. I've made sure everything is added as a subview where needed. I've made sure I've tried everything I could think of short of setting the cell's X position in code. But since I'm not sure how to tell where the border is, I'd rather have the tableview or the cell do the work itself.
The question: How do I fix this? The selection accessory should be outside the grouping box. The text should be inside, not bleeding out onto the background like it is.I believe the content of the cell should be displayed inside the border within the yellow area.
The odd thing is, this is my fifth or sixth table in this app and I've been doing them all basically the same. Thus far this is the only one I've had trouble with.
Can anyone shed some light as to what's going on?
Thanks in advance
I think that to get this in code, you'd have to do something explicit, so the most likely candidate is a messed up IB file.
Since it doesn't cost anything, I'd just delete the tableView from the IB and then re-add it. If that doesn't work, try recreating the complete IB.
Hope that helps
I need a string grid which can scroll smoothly, as opposed to locking in the top row / left col positions. When you scroll a TStringGrid, the left visible column and top visible row snap into position along the top/left edges. I need the ability for the user to scroll smoothly, not locking these edges into place.
I wouldn't think this is possible to modify in the VCL TStringGrid (or TCustomGrid for that matter) because it relies on properties such as TopRow, LeftCol, VisibleRowCount, etc.. I'm pretty sure I'll need a third party control, but I'd love to use the TStringGrid if possible, because I already have a lot of code wrapped around it. If I do need a third-party grid, then I'm hoping it works closely enough like the TStringGrid.
The short answer is no, you can´t pixel scroll a TStringGrid. You can simulate a grid using a TScrollBox. You can put a grid inside the TScrollBox, make the grid large enough to fit all rows and cols, and turn off its scroll bars, but some things like keyboard navigation will not work.
Other alternative is to use the TVirtualTree in grid mode or TListView. Both have this pixel scroll you want.
I was looking for something similar. Unfortunately, you can't do it with Borland's code but Lazarus can do it
Scrolling the TStringGrid pixel by pixel
You may want to take a look in their code.
I have a DBGrid on a form. The DBGrid has many columns, so an horizontal scroller is displayed. I scroll the DBGrid view to the right to see more columns. If I select a row, the DBGrid view is automatically reset to view the first column (As if I scroll back to the left most position).
Is there a way to prevent that?
I assume you have goRowSelect in the grid options. This forces the selected col to be the first non-fixed column, so whenever the row changes the code to scroll the selected cell into view forces the first non-fixed column to be visible.
Since goRowSelect also effectively disables the horizontal scrolling with the keyboard I try to live without it. You can use custom drawing of the grid cells to show all cells of the current row with the proper colours for selected cells, even though only one cell is really selected. I use this also to show different colours depending on whether the grid is focused or not, similar to what a standard tree control does. For this to work properly you do however need to handle not only grid cell navigation events, but some other events too, like OnEnter and OnExit of the grid, OnActivate and OnDeactivate of the Application, and so on.
You might be able to ask for the scrollbar position
GetScrollInfo(Self.Handle, SB_VERT, SIOld);
and use SetScrollInfo( ) to put it back. There's probably a better way. SelectedField is another way (get/set it as needed).
Delphi 2007.
I have a TGrid with more rows than will fit on the screen, and the height of the grid is such that there is a partially drawn row at the bottom.
When I click on this partial row, it jumps up to be fully visible (via a procedure called 'ClampInView' in Grids.pas). But it doesn't stop. Since the mouse is now over a new partially drawn row, that jumps up too.
The net effect is that clicking on the partially drawn row starts selecting cells in a vertical column, spinning all the way to the bottom (or until you release the mouse).
I have replicated this on a fresh winforms project with just a single grid with 100 rows, and no code, so I'm pretty sure it's not something I'm doing in code wrong.
It is bad for me because the form I have in real code has drag and drop type behaviour, so clicking and releasing ~0.1 seconds later on the partial row will pick up the item in the cell and drop it about 50 rows lower. This is definitely not what you expect to happen when you click on a cell.
Any suggestions how to fix/work around this?
This is what I have always done because I think it is tacky to have partially visible rows. I adjust the size of the grid so its client area is an even multiple of row height. You can do that at design time, or it is easy to do via code as well. The kicker would be if you have re-sizable rows. If that is the case then just put the code to resize the grid in the event handler for the row resize event (I believe it has one).
Not only does this prevent the behavior you are trying to fix, but it also (in my opinion) makes your UI look a lot cleaner!
You can try override MouseDown in your grid and do not call inherited MouseDown, if user clicks in "bad" places.
I have a DBGrid on a form. The DBGrid has many columns, so an horizontal scroller is displayed. I scroll the DBGrid view to the right to see more columns. If I select a row, the DBGrid view is automatically reset to view the first column (As if I scroll back to the left most position).
Is there a way to prevent that?
I assume you have goRowSelect in the grid options. This forces the selected col to be the first non-fixed column, so whenever the row changes the code to scroll the selected cell into view forces the first non-fixed column to be visible.
Since goRowSelect also effectively disables the horizontal scrolling with the keyboard I try to live without it. You can use custom drawing of the grid cells to show all cells of the current row with the proper colours for selected cells, even though only one cell is really selected. I use this also to show different colours depending on whether the grid is focused or not, similar to what a standard tree control does. For this to work properly you do however need to handle not only grid cell navigation events, but some other events too, like OnEnter and OnExit of the grid, OnActivate and OnDeactivate of the Application, and so on.
You might be able to ask for the scrollbar position
GetScrollInfo(Self.Handle, SB_VERT, SIOld);
and use SetScrollInfo( ) to put it back. There's probably a better way. SelectedField is another way (get/set it as needed).