Grid control with Check boxes....Please Help

[Rajesh_Parameswaran]

Hi there, I working in VC 6.0, in which I need to polulate the datas in a grid. One of the field may contain values either text or a check box. So how can I implement a column which have only text in some rows and the some rows having check boxes. Which control should I use, a Data Grid or a List Control? thanks in advance. regards, Rajesh

[Iain Clarke Warrior Programmer]

Rajesh_Parameswaran wrote:

Which control should I use, a Data Grid or a List Control?

It's really up to you, and dependent on your familiarity with each, other app specific details. I'd also throw in a recomendation for GridCtrl (by our very own C Maunder), and the newer version posted a few months ago. They can take data from a variety of sources, and you can have cells with all sorts of type of data. Checkbox, text, number, colour pickers and (written by me!) progress bars. Iain.

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[Rajesh R Subramanian]

Hey pal! Good to see you again after a while. Where were you? :-D

Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself. - Cicero .·´¯`·->Rajesh<-·´¯`·. Codeproject.com: Visual C++ MVP

[Iain Clarke Warrior Programmer]

I've been on a customer's site a lot recently, with internet access on borrowed PCs to check emails, and that's about it. Rumours of my death have been exagerated. Sadly, I've only come up for air for only a few days. Then back into hiding... Iain.

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[Rajesh_Parameswaran]

Hi There, Thanks for your response. One more question: I'm using a ListCtrl with the LVS_EX_CHECKBOXES option. Now I get the checkbox in the first column of the list control. Is it possible to move the check box to any other column in the list control? thanks in advance. regards, Rajesh

[Iain Clarke Warrior Programmer]

Rajesh_Parameswaran wrote:

Is it possible to move the check box to any other column in the list control?

Nope! Doing a search for LVS_EX_CHECKBOXES, it pointed me at the ListView_GetCheckState "function". A search of the headers showed this a macro wrapper around LVM_GETITEMSTATE. Further investigation shows this affects a list item, not a sub item. Maybe you could use owner draw, detect mouse clicks, and use hit test messages and write your own subclasses list control that has sub-checks, but I doubt it's worth the effort when you have other controls as I described in my last email. Iain.

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