Grid Control Design-Time Considerations

Grid columns can have a heading row and might also have a QBE row to facilitate user searches. Additionally, you can specify rows or columns to display information that you acquire or calculate during runtime. Typically, the rest of the rows contain data. Generally, this data comes from database tables.

Usually, when you make the grid control, you place data items in the grid. The data items can come from the BV attached to the form, or they can be based on DD items. Either way, each data item becomes a column. Just as the grid control itself has a variety of property settings, you can set property values for each column in the grid as well.

You have a great deal of control, both at design time and at runtime, over how the grid appears, what it displays, and how it functions.

This section discusses how to:

• Design the grid.

• Add columns to the grid control.

• Display grid data as icons.

• Set property values for the grid control.

• Show multiple currencies per column.