Any tips on a useful method to display data

[Hans Christian Andersen]

I'm working on a piece of software in VC++ 6, which basically connects to an ACCESS database using ADO/ADOX and displays the data from the database to a MSFLEXGRID control. It works fine. I have written the code so that each record can be selected and that data is passed back to the main form. Now its a matter of aestetics that I have a problem with. It seems like the MSFLEXGRID control is a bit short of features. I'm trying to figure out a way for the user to be able to reorder the columns by dragging the headings. MSFLEXGRID does not seem to support this in any particular way. I have a few ideas (hacks), which I think I could use to work around the problem, but I was wondering if there's some other magic control that I'm not aware of thats better and can be used in Visual C++ 6 (no .NET). I looked at Datagrid, but it doesn't seem to be what I'm looking for. Another problem I have is in implementing a right-click context menu to the Flexgrid. On the right mouse button event, the context menu is only triggered if the current mouse selected cell is a header, but what then happens is that it also responds to the event (strangely) if you right click _above_ the heading cells (outside the flexgrid control), although below is no problem. I have no idea why this is happening and yet another reason why I would want to know if there is anything better out there. I looked to no avail. Must emphasize: VC++ 6 only its a struggle -jose

[Hans Christian Andersen]

Surely something must exist, such as the grids that Windows Explorer itself uses? its a struggle -jose

[Michael P Butler]

Probably the best free C++ grid control[^] Michael CP Blog [^]