TMS TAdvStringGrid v6.1 What's New PDF

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Whats new & improved in TMS

TAdvStringGrid for Delphi & C++Builder

TMS TAdvStringGrid
whats new guide
Productivity feature packed grid for Delphi &
C++Builder

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Introduction

TMS TAdvStringGrid v6.1 is the latest version of the TMS productivity feature packed grid for
CodeGear Delphi & C++Builder. While many new capabilities and improvements are introduced, it is
designed to be fully backwards compatible with TAdvStringGrid v3.0 or later. Upgrading applications
to the latest version of TAdvStringGrid should as such be seamless.

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Availability
TMS TAdvStringGrid is available as a VCL component set for Win32 application development. TMS
TAdvStringGrid is available for Embarcadero Delphi 5,6, 7,2005,2006,2007,2009,2010,XE,XE2 &
Embarcadero C++Builder 5,6,2006,2007,2009,2010,XE,XE2.

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Whats new & improved in version v6.1

New : CursorMoveRows navigation mode
When the property grid.Navigation.CursorMoveRows is set to true, pressing Ctrl and arrow up or
down moves the selected row or rows up or down. When range selection is enabled and multiple
rows are selected, pressing Ctrl-Down, Ctrl-Up will move the entire selected block of rows one row
up or down. When grid.Navigation.CursorMoveRows is false, pressing Ctrl-Up or Ctrl-Down has no
effect.

New : OnFilterCheck event
When the option is chosen to have a filter dropdown with checkboxes, i.e. when
grid.FilterDropDownCheck = true, the event OnFilterCheck is triggered when a checkbox in the filter
dropdown is clicked.

New : FilterDropDownColumns property
Selects whether the filter dropdown appears for all columns or only for normal columns (excluding
fixed columns). Values are fdAll or fdNormal.

New : edMaskEditBtn inplace editor type
This new inplace editor consists of an edit control with a mask and a button attached. The edit
controls mask is set via the event OnGetEditMask. The button will trigger the event OnEllipsClick
when clicked.

New : adLeftRightInRow, adTopBottomInCol navigation modes
The property to control the direction of moving to the next cell when grid.Navigation.AdvanceEnter
= true and the Enter key is pressed is extended now with two extra options. Following options are
now available:

adTopBottom: move from top row to bottom row and then move to next column.
adTopBottomInCol: move from top row to bottom row and then move to top row again in same
column.
adLeftRight: move from left to right and then move to next row.
adLeftRightInRow: move from left to right and then move to back to first cell in same row.

New : MoveRows(FromIndex, ToIndex, RCount: integer) method added
Programmatically moves RCount rows starting from index FromIndex to ToIndex. This complements
the MoveRow() method that just moves one row.

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New : Basic support for XE2 VCL Styles
The grid will now use the VCL Style definitions for cell background, text color, fixed cell
backgrounds and text color and automatically synchronize with the selected VCL style. When the
VCL style is the classic Windows style, the grid appearance is unchanged and not affected.

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New : Metro style
The grid can now be put in a minimalistic Metro design language style with the method
grid.SetColorTones(). This function will be integrated in other TMS Components as well and
eventually in the TAdvFormStyler/TAdvAppStyler to change applications fully to Metro style with
one setting.
New : Tristate checkbox support added
New overrides of the methods to add checkboxes in the grid are provided with the State:
TCheckBoxState parameter to have tri-state checkboxes in the grid.
New : TAdvHeaderList / TAdvHeaderListPopup column chooser components

Two new components make it easy to perform drag & drop of columns between a grid and a
component that holds the list of columns. A new paragraph in the developers guide is devoted to
how this can be used.
New : OnEditChange support added for fixed cell editing
Fixed cell editing has been extended with support for regular edit control, edit combobox and list
combobox and will trigger the OnEditChange now during editing.
New : Added option to control export of images with TAdvGridExcelIO
A new setting allows to decide to export images to an XLS file or not with TAdvGridExcelIO.
New : OnGetCellCursor event added
The event is triggered for each cell and allows to specify a cell specific cursor.
New : FilterNormalCellsOnly property added to skip filter on node/summary rows
When FilterNormalCellsOnly is set to true, filtering applies only to normal cells and not to cells in
rows that have a node or summary rows of a group. That allows to perform filtering on grouped
grids.
New : Group checkboxes
When grid.Grouping.AutoCheckGroup = true, a checkbox on a group header row will now perform a
check/uncheck of all checkboxes on rows in the group. Equally, the group checkbox will reflect the
state of checkboxes on rows within the group.
New : edNumericUnitEditBtn, edFloatUnitEditBtn inplace editor types
Two new editor types are provided to allow inplace unit edit control with accepting numbers of
floating point values only.
New : Groups grand total automatically displayed in floating footer line

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When group calculations are performed and the floating footer is visible, the groups grand total or
calculation result is now displayed automatically in the floating footer.
New : Public properties SaveFixedCols, SaveFixedRows added
When SaveFixedCols / SaveFixedRows more fine-grained control is now possible to determine in
what fixed cells data from a file is imported or from what fixed cells data is exported. Set the
existing grid.SaveFixedCells = false and use SaveFixedCols / SaveFixedRows
New : Grid.ControlLook.DropDownCount property added
With this property, it can be set how many rows will be displayed in the dropdown of inplace
combobox editors.
New : FilterDropDownCheck to have multiselect dropdown filter
When true, the automatic filter dropdown is a checklist. With this checklist, it is possible to
perform an OR-type filter operation of the conditions in the checklist dropdown that is displayed on
the column header.
New : Combo edit & combo list fixed cell editor
With the properties grid.MouseActions.FixedColsEditor , FixedRowsEditor, it can now be specified to
use a normal edit control, editable combobox or list combobox for fixed cell editing.
New : Inplace editor alignment will automatically match display alignment
Now, the inplace editor alignment is by default set identical to the alignment of the displayed text
in the cell
New : DISTINCT, STDDEV column & group calculation function added
Two new column & group calculation methods are added. DISTINCT calculates the number of unique
values in cells in a column or group column while STDDEV calculates the standard deviation of
values. The new functions are grid.ColumnDistinct, grid.ColumnStdDev and grid.GroupDistinct,
grid.GroupStdDev.
New : Cell control to expand/collaps rows
With the new function AddExpand, a small expand/collaps button can be added in the top-right
corner of a cell. Clicking this button will toggle the row height between default row height and
expanded row height. The expanded row height is a parameter of the AddExpand() method.
New : Method grid.EditCell(Col,Row) added
With this new function, the grid inplace editor can be easily started with one call in cell Col,Row.
New : grid.SortSettings.ToggleDirection method added
With this new method, the sort direction can be easily toggled before calling grid.QSort. This will
automatically take care that the sort order changes alternatingly for each sort.
New : Event OnComboDropDown added
This new event is triggered on dropdown of the inplace editable combobox (edComboEdit) and the
inplace list combobox (edComboList)

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New : Support for XY scatter charts added in TAdvChartLink
TAdvChartLink has been extended to provide automatic linking of data in TAdvStringGrid with an
X,Y scatter chart type in the TMS TAdvChartView or TAdvGDIPChartView.
New : OnColumnCalc event added
This new event is called during custom calculation to differentiate from the OnGroupCalc event that
is triggered duriung custum column calculations in a grouped grid.
New : DragDropSettings.OleColumnsOnly property added
When DragDropSettings.OleColumnsOnly is set to true, an OLE drag & drop operation can only be
started from the column header cells (Fixed row) This is suitable for situations where only drag &
drop of entire columns should be allowed and not of other normal cells.
New : DragDropSettings.OleColumnReorder property added
When this new setting is trued, OLE drag & drop can also perform column reordering. Use this in
combination with DragDropSettings.OleColumnsOnly = true.
Improved : Flat node appearance
Flat nodes are now more correct displayed with the inner + - sign perfectly centered.
Improved : Behavior with cell scroll
Cell scrollbar size calculation and behavior is now resembling better real Windows control scroll
handling
Improved : TAdvGridImport selection between delimited & fixed column with files
The preview of data in the TAdvGridImportDialog is now always autosized and selection of
delimiters has been enhanced, specifically when custom delimiters are used.
Improved : Column OLE drag & drop
Column drag & drop is now handling the column drag image better.
Improved : 64bit compatibility
Various improvements have been done for 64bit compatibility when TAdvStringGrid is used in 64bit
apps.

New : method grid.SelectCells()
This new method makes it easier to programmatically set the selected cells in the grid
New : grid.MouseActions.PreciseNodeClick
When this property is set, only the node rectangle in a cell is sensitive for clicks to open or collaps
the node. Otherwise, the entire cell can be clicked.

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New : ColumnSize.Row property
New property makes it possible to specify what rows should be taken in account to perform
automatic sizing of columns. This can be set to:
arAll: all rows are taken in account
arNormal: only normal rows are taken in account
arFixed: only fixed rows are taken in account
New : DateTimePicker.WeekNumbers, DateTimePicker.ShowToday,
DateTimePicker.ShowTodayCircle properties
New properties allow to customize the dropdown calendar of the inplace datepicker control to show
week numbers, to turn off the today date & selecte display.
New : public property XYOffsetTopLeftOnly property
By default, the grid.XYOffset property is used to set the offset for text from left/right and
top/bottom in a cell. When XYOffsetTopLeftOnly is set to true, the offset is only taken in account
from the left & top corner.
New : URLShowInText property
When true, any hyperlink of the type http://, http://, ftp://, nntp://, mailto: that occurs in the
text of a cell is displayed in the URLColor and underlined and will act as a hyperlink when clicked.
This means that if the cell content is Visit http://www.tmssoftware.com for details, the
hyperlink will be automatically underlined without any need to write HTML <A> tags. This is
different from using just URLShow = true, where the entire cell text is treated as hyperlink or not.

New : FilterDropDownAuto/FilterDropDownClear added
The grid has a built-in capability to automatically create the filter consisting of an alphabetically
sorted list of unique column values. To enable this feature, set grid.FilterDropDownAuto to true. In
addition to the list of unique values, an entry is optionally added that can be used to clear the
filter. The value of this entry is set by grid.FilterDropDownClear: string and defaults to (All). When
the auto filter capability is enabled, every column header automatically gets the filter dropdown
icon. When the auto filter is only needed for some specific columns, the OnGetColumnFilter event
can be used to remove the filter by simply clearing the prefilled filter list. This sample code shows
how the auto filter can be set to only columns 1 and 2:
procedure TForm13.AdvStringGrid1GetColumnFilter(Sender: TObject;
Column: Integer; Filter: TStrings);
begin
if not (Column in [1,2]) then
Filter.Clear;
end;
New : Cell rating control
As commonly seen in many web interfaces, the grid provides a specific graphic type to add a rating
control to a cell. The rating control consists of a number of star shapes. The number of fully or half
coloured stars represents the value. To add a rating control to a cell, call
grid.AddRating(ACol,ARow,Scale: integer; FullColor,EmtpyColor: TColor). The parameters
ACol,ARow set the cell where to add the rating control. The Scale parameter sets the number of
stars to use in the rating control and the parameters FullColor,EmptyColor set the color for fully

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coloured stars and non coloured stars. When the grid cell is not read-only, the value of the rating
control can be change by clicking on the cell. The value can also be programmatically set and
retrieved with grid.Floats[Col,Row]: double. This example code adds 3 rating controls in the grid
and presets its values:
begin
AdvStringGrid1.AddRating(1,1,5,clLime,clSilver);
AdvStringGrid1.Floats[1,1] := 2.0;
end;

New : shapes in cells
Often it is desirable to have a little graphic representation and not having to resort to image
resources for this makes it easy to have graphics in many colours and many shapes in a resource
friendly way. The grid offers a range of such shapes that can be added via the method
grid.AddShape(ACol,ARow: integer; Shape: TCellShape; FillColor,LineColor: TColor; hal:
TCellHAlign; val: TCellVAlign);

The type TCellShape is defined in the unit AdvUtil and the supported shapes are:
csRectangle rectangular
csCircle circle
csTriangleLeft left oriented triangle
csTriangleRight right oriented triangle
csTriangleUp up oriented triangle
csTriangleDown down oriented triangle
csDiamond diamond shape
csLineVert single vertical line
csLineHorz single horizontal line
csRoundRect rounded rectangle
csEllips ellips
csSquare square
csRoundSquare rounded square
csStar star
csArrowUp arrow up
csArrowDown arrow down
csArrowLeft arrow left
csArrowRight arrow right
csHalfStar half star

To demonstrate this, following code adds 4 different shapes to the grid:

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begin
AdvStringGrid1.AddShape(1,1,csDiamond,clLime, clSilver,
haBeforeText,vaTop);
AdvStringGrid1.AddShape(1,2,csCircle,clRed, clSilver,
AdvStringGrid1.AddShape(1,3,csStar,clYellow, clSilver,
AdvStringGrid1.AddShape(1,4,csArrowUp,clBlue, clSilver,
end;

New : detail,time,memo,colorpicker,imagepicker,trackbar,grid dropdown inplace editors
A new range of feature-rich inplace editors is available now in TAdvStringGrid. The online samples:
http://www.tmssoftware.com/site/asg81.asp
http://www.tmssoftware.com/site/asg82.asp
explain how these new controls can be used.

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New : Fixed : column sizes can be preset in TAdvGridImportDialog
Now it is possible to programmatically preset the column sizes before starting the
TAdvGridImportDialog.
New : property OriginalCells[Col,Row]: string
This property enables to access cells irrespective of column moving.
New : OnClipboardAfterPasteCell,OnClipboardAfterPasteWideCell events
Event is triggered after the paste has been performed in a cell.
New : MouseActions.DisjunctRowSelectNoCtrl property added
When true and combined with DisjunctRowSelect = true, disjunct row selection is possible without
keeping the Ctrl key down.
New : Event OnCheckBoxChange
The OnCheckBoxChange event is triggered whenever the state of a checkbox changes as a result
from a click of the user on the grid. Note that the OnCheckBoxChange event will also be triggered
for each checkbox changing its state by a click on a column header checkbox.
New : Navigation.AutoAdvance new behaviour in combination with grid.MaxEditLength

When Navigation.AutoAdvance is set to true, it will now also move to the next cell when
MaxEditLength is reached
New : Public property EditMask

EditMask public property is now available to avoid implementing an extra event to set a mask
New : public grid.ValidCharSet public property
With this property it is possible to use a set of chars instead of a string of allowed characters
Improved : IntelliZoom function

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Zoom in/out with mouse ctrl wheel change has better control over font sizing
Improved : clipboard support for multiline cells
Copy and paste of cells with multiline text within the grid and between other applications is
improved.
Improved : changed TInifile use by TMemInifile for faster operation
Internal change to make persisting grid settings faster
Improved : OLE file drop is now also possible on non cell area of grid
Previously, OLE drop was only possible on a grid cell. Now it is possible to drop files via OLE drop
also on non cell areas in the grid.
Improved : HTML form cell editing
Improved position control of editors on HTML forms
Improved : painting of inplace edit controls on Windows Vista/Windows 7
General improvements in painting for Windows Vista & Windows 7

New : TAdvGridImportDialog.Delimiter / CustomDelimiter properties added
With these new properties it is now possible to programmatically preset the preferred delimiter to
start the CSV import dialog with and access the custom delimiter character.
New : pressing Ctrl-Return on searchfooter will perform a backward search
Pressing return performs a forward search (equivalent to clicking the Find Next button) and the
functionality has been added to let Ctrl-Return perform backward search (equivalent to clicking the
Find Previous button)
New : OnFileProgress triggered during SaveToXML()
The event is triggered while performing the export to XML to indicate the progress of the export.
New : support for export of multi image cells to HTML
Saving a grid to file where for one or more cells multiple imagelist images were inserted now also
outputs the different images to a file and links the images from the HTML table content.
New : edValidChars inplace editor type
This new editor type allows to specify through the new property grid.ValidChars the series of
characters accepted for input in the grid. If the grid.ValidChars property is set to 02468 for
example, only characters 0, 2, 4, 6, 8 will be accepted for entry when the editor type is set
to edValidChars.
New : AutoFitColumns can be called with new parameter DoFixedCells
Calling AutoFitColumns applied an algorithm to change the column widths proportionally to fill the
entire available width of the grid. The new default parameter DoFixedCells is set to true, ensuring
that the proportional width change applies to both normal and fixed cells. When setting the
parameter to false, only the width of normal columns is changed.

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New : Function SwapCells() added
This function swaps both cell content and cell properties of two cells.
Example

Grid.SwapCells(GridCoord(Col1,Row1), GridCoord(Col2,Row2));
New : Lookup functionality added for edEditBtn editor type
Via the grid.LookupItems stringlist, values can be preset with which the inplace editor performs a
lookup while typing. This was applicable for the edNormal and edCombo inplace editor formerly but
has now been extended for the edEditBtn inplace editor as well.
New : FilterDropDownRow property added to control on what fixed row filter dropdown appears
Via this property, it can now be controlled on what fixed row the filter dropdown button appears.
Note that the filter dropdown button should appear on a fixed row and as such,
grid.FilterDropDownRow should be smaller than grid.FixedRows
New : SearchFooter.SearchDirection property added to control direction of search from
searchfooter
With this new property it can be controlled whether the search performed from the search footer is
from top to bottom row first and then from left to right, or from left to right first and then from top
to bottom.
New : Public property grid.PrintSettings.BorderColor added
This new public property allows to set the global grid border color for printing.
Improved : export to HTML with special characters
Now special characters such as , , , .. are properly exported to HTML generating the HTML
encoded sequence for such special characters.
Improved : single row to multirow / single col to multicolumn smart clipboard handling
Now smart clipboard handling also works when row selection is active and selection is changed.
Improved : small improvement wrt MouseActions.RangeSelectAndEdit = true option
Improved behaviour to start editing on non selected cells in the mode RangeSelectAndEdit = true
Improved : drawing of cell pictures when BidiMode is RightToLeft
Cells with pictures now render correct with BidiMode is set to RightToLeft.
Improved : display of sort indicator in rotated header cells
Now header cells can have rotated text as well as the sort indicator and this will paint correct when
combined in a single header cell.


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New : method RemoveSelectedCols, RemoveUnSelectedCols added
With one call, the selected columns or unselected columns can now be removed from the grid. The
columns can either be selected when range selection is enabled (goRangeSelect is true under
grid.Options) or disjunct column selection is enabled (grid.MouseActions.DisjunctColSelect is true)

New : easy way to persist & restore indexed sort settings
Storing and restoring the latest state of how the user sorted one or more columns can now be easily
persisted as a string value. This string value can be easily saved to the registry, INI file, XML file or a
database. To save the sort state, retrieve this via grid.SortSettings.SaveToString. To restore the sort
state, grid.SortSettings.LoadFromString(value: string) can used.

New : scrollbars per cell
Now it is possible to add a vertical scrollbar on cell level. The scrollbar can be defined as auto
ranging scrollbar, ie. it will automatically adapt to the size of the text in the cell. Adding a scrollbar
is done with grid.AddScrollBar(col,row: integer);

New : added support for SUMMARY attribute for HTML export
The HTMLSettings class has a new property Summary: string. With this property, the HTML TABLE
summary attribute can be set. This attribute will be saved to the HTML file when used.
New : ShowSeconds property added for TAdvStringGrid.SpinEdit
Now it is possible to specify whether the time cell editor shows seconds or not. This can be set with
the property grid.SpinEdit.ShowSeconds: Boolean.

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New : Navigation.AdvanceAutoEdit property added
This new property determines whether the next cell selected when return is pressed when
grid.Navigation.AdvanceOnEnter is set true will be automatically entered in edit mode or not.

New : Navigation.ClipboardPasteAction property added
This property allows to select what will happen during a paste in the grid. ClipboardPasteAction can
be either set to paInsert or paReplace. When paReplace is selected, upon pasting, existing cell
values will be replaced with the new values pasted. When paInsert is selected, upon pasting, the
new values will be inserted in the grid at the coordinate of the selected cell.

New : Filtering on date+time
In a filter condition it is now also possible to specify both a date and time. This filter condition will
show all cells with a date/time value newer than Januari 1, 2009 12:00:
with grid.Filter.Add do
begin
Column := 1;
Condition := > 1/1/2009 12:00;
end;

New : Invalid entry icons
New properties InvalidEntryTitle, InvalidEntryText, InvalidEntryIcon are added to enable showing a
balloon informing when an invalid value was entered in the grid. This can be set from the
grid.OnCellValidate event to signal the user invalid entries.
procedure TForm2.AdvStringGrid1CellValidate(Sender: TObject; ACol,
ARow: Integer; var Value: string; var Valid: Boolean);
begin
if length(value) < 3 then
begin
Advstringgrid1.InvalidEntryTitle := 'Input error';
Advstringgrid1.InvalidEntryText := 'Entry not sufficiently long';
Valid := false;
end;
if length(value) > 5 then
begin
Advstringgrid1.InvalidEntryTitle := 'Input error';
Advstringgrid1.InvalidEntryText := 'Entry is too long';
Valid := false;
end;
end;

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New : AddBalloon, RemoveBalloon methods added
With the new methods grid.AddBalloon / grid.RemoveBalloon it is now possible to easily add a
balloon to a grid cell. The balloon is displayed when the mouse hovers the cell. Via the
grid.AddBalloon method, the balloons title, text and icon can be set.

procedure TForm2.FormCreate(Sender: TObject);
begin
AdvStringGrid1.Balloon.Enable := true;
AdvStringGrid1.AddBalloon(2,2,'Title A','Cell 2,2 is here', biError);
AdvStringGrid1.AddBalloon(3,3,'Title B','Cell 3,3 is here', biWarning);
end;

New : filter dropdown in column header
It is now possible to enable the selection of a column filter at runtime by clicking a filter icon in the
column header and upon selecting the filter, it is applied. The filter dropdown list can contain
friendly filter names that are translated to filter conditions from the OnFilterSelect event. The
filter dropdown items are set via the event OnGetColumnFilter:
procedure TForm2.AdvStringGrid1GetColumnFilter(Sender: TObject; Column:
Integer; Filter: TStrings);
begin
case Column of
1:
begin
Filter.Add('Clear');
Filter.Add('Within range');
Filter.Add('Exceptions');
end;

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2:
begin
Filter.Add('>50');
Filter.Add('<50');
end;
3:
begin
Filter.Add('>20');
Filter.Add('<20');
end;
4:
begin
Filter.Add('>20');
Filter.Add('<20');
end;

end;
end;

New : incremental filtering & narrow down capability
With the methods grid.ApplyFilter, grid.RemoveLastFilter, it is now possible to perform filtering in
several steps and undo filter operations one by one. As such, two filter operations can be set after
each other with:
begin
Condition := 'condition1';
Column := column1;
end;
grid.ApplyFilter; // performs the first filter operation
begin
Condition := 'condition2';
Column := column2;

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end;
grid.ApplyFilter; // performs the second filter operation
and at a later time, the filters can be removed again one by one by calling:
grid.RemoveLastFilter;
grid.RemoveLastFilter;
Another new features is the narrow-down filter capability. The narrow-down filter can operate on
every column in the grid or on a single column. A narrow-down can be performed by calling:
grid.NarrowDown(value:string [,optional column index]);
When calling grid.NarrowDown, the grid will show all rows that contain the string value or all rows
where the specified column contains the string value. Successive calls to NarrowDown will perform
less or more filtering with respect to the last narrow down call.

New : filtering on full row
When it is not known in what column a value can be found and you want that the grid returns all
rows that have any column with a specific value, the new filter Data type can be used: fcRow.

This filter will show all rows where any of its columns contains the word text:
begin
Condition := text;
Data := fcRow;
end;
grid.FilterActive := true;

New : Windows 7 & Office 2007 selection styles
Via grid.Look, two new styles can be selected: the Windows 7 style and the Office 2007 style. The
Windows 7 style uses the Windows Explorer color scheme and applies the selection gradient
identical to the selected items color in the Windows Explorer. The Office 2007 color scheme
emulates the Office 2007 Luna color with the orange gradient selection colors.

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Windows 7 color scheme

Office 2007 color scheme

New : Windows Vista / Windows 7 Explorer row selection style
With the new Windows Vista, Windows 7 Explorer row selection style, the entire selected row(s)
have a single border.

New : OnGetCellGradient event added
Via the OnGetCellGradient event, a single or dual mirror gradient can be dynamically specified per
cell.
New : overriding fixed cell colors simplified

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Where in former versions it was required to select a single color style for fixed cells to override the
color, now it is possible to set a fixed cell color for any type of fixed cell color (ie. solid color,
single gradient, dual gradient)

New : Replace function added
The replace function allows to replace text in cells. The specification for choosing in what cells to
replace text is identical to the grid.Find() capabilities. With this sample code, for all cells that start
with character 3 in column 2, the 3 will be replaced by A:
AdvStringGrid1.Col := 2;
AdvStringgrid1.Replace('3','A',[fnFindInCurrentCol, fnMatchStart]);

New : ColumnSize.SynchNormalCellsOnly property added
When grid.ColumnSize.SynchWithGrid is set true, the size of all columns will proportionally change
with grid width changes. It can be desirable that fixed columns are excluded for this proportional
sizing of columns. This can be enabled now by setting grid.ColumnSize.SynchNormalCellOnly to
True.

New : Quick config design time helper
At design time, a quick config box is shown by default. This provides easy & fast access to enable or
disable editing in the grid as well as make a selection from the different built-in looks for the grid:

New : HTMLSettings.ExportImages property added
Via the grid.HTMLSettings.ExportImages property it can be controlled whether images are exported
or not when saving the grid to HTML.

Improved : custom inplace editor usage
Positioning and handling of auto advance, edit cancelling has been improved when custom inplace
edit controls are used via TEditLink classes.

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Improved : inplace date editor starts with first char entered
Now the date editor is also started and entered in edit mode with the first character pressed on the
grid to start the editing.

Improved : mouse handling when PreciseCheckBoxCheck = true
For a checkbox in a right-aligned cell, the PreciseCheckBoxCheck will now also work to accept a
checkbox click only when the checkbox is clicked and not the entire cell.

Improved : position of text during edit versus display
Position of text in inplace editors now 100% matches the position of the text in the cell when in
normal display mode.

Improved : export to HTML
Export to HTML now handles merged cells and hidden columns better.

Improved : handling of cell validation
Cell validation and keeping the inplace editor active when incorrect values are entered is now
more consistent for the various supported inplace editor types.

Improved : faster handling of row hiding / node expand & collaps
The performance of the algorithm to hide rows, expand and collaps nodes has been improved.

Improved : button painting in SearchFooter
The buttons in the search footer now properly paint with Windows theme when enabled.

Improved : shortcut handling in search footer
Accelerator keys on search footer buttons are now handled.

Improved : automatic sort type detection
Algorithm to automatically detect whether a date, a time or a combined date & time is in a cell has
been improved.

Fixed : issue with mouse wheel & disjunct row selection
Issue with selected rows being affected by using the mousewheel with the grid has been fixed.

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