Chapter 6. More Applications of Grid and List Views

This chapter covers the following recipes:

• Creating a master-details view with a grid and a panel

• Creating a master-details view with a grid and a form

• Creating a master-details view with a combo box and a grid

• Creating a master-details view with two grids

• Displaying large recordsets with a buffered grid

• Using the lightweight ListView class

• Editing rows with the RowEditor plugin

• Adding tool tips to grid cells

• Using the PropertyGrid class

• Using drag-and-drop between two grids

Introduction

In this chapter, we continue exploring the presentation of information using grid-like components. Besides multiple ways of displaying master-details relationships, the recipes in this chapter cover the drag-and-drop features of the grid components, data editing with the new RowEditor class, as well as the new lightweight ListView component.