Delphi Tutorial

This component is a mix between TTreeView and TListView and can paint a tree whose nodes have additional information sorted in columns.

It has these features:

• Showing of a tree together with columns
• The lines can be drawn striped, so lines alternate their background color.
• It can paint dividing lines between rows and columns.
• Each node can get an icon and the user can collapse and expand it.
• The lines can automatically be sorted
• The user can move the columns without a change of the indices(only in Lazarus)
• Indepent of the Windows Common Controls
• Works with Delphi (there only tested with BDS2006) and Lazarus

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EasyListview is a control that has no dependance on the Microsoft Listview control but has all the features of the latest version from Microsoft. Some of the features of the control are:

• Virtual data initialization through an event callback the first time Afflictive need the data for display (much like Virtual).
• Classes used for items that are easily descended from to add custom data
• Grouping
• Expandable groups
• Custom Expand/Collapse images
• All the views of the Microsoft version 6.0 common control
  • Large Icon view
  • Small Icon View
  • Report View
  • Tile View
  • Thumbnail View
  • and the ability to define new custom views easily
• User overrideable Icon/Thumbnail extraction
• Unicode enabled
• Implements a novel scheme for item, group and column objects. When adding objects to the control you may choose from
  • Objects that query their data (captions, images, etc) though interfaces
  • Objects that query their data through callbacks on the EasyListview
  • Objects that store their data internally (such as design time objects)
  • Objects that store their data defined by the developer (custom object)
• Built in support for OLE Drag and Drop
• Built in support for OLE Drag and Drop drag images
• Built in support for VCL Drag and Drop
• Built in support for autoscrolling during Drag Drop
• Flicker free painting to the canvas
• Fully customizable Unicode hints, including custom drawn
• Alpha blended selection rectangle
• Ability to have invisible items, groups and columns
• Checkbox support for items, groups, and columns
• Support for Alpha blended selection of items
• Support for round rectangles for selection
• Support for Grouped Selections
• Support for XP themes

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msTreeView suite is a set of the components for creating of hierarchical (treelike) structure of the data. The set contains two components: TmsTreeView and TmsDBTreeView. TmsTreeView is for the development of the Windows-Applications Interface, TmsDBTreeView is for the development of the applications to work with data. The given components are like the standard VCL component TTreeView, but much more functionality: they support Cut/ Copy/ Paste operations, searching and sorting functions, drag-and-drop operations, they have errors handler, hot keys for the basis operations, advanced nodes editor (at designtime) and many other functions. TmsDBTreeView works with DataSet as the standard VCL components from the Data Controls page (supports all the methods for management of the data). You can use these components to create the information managers, dictionaries, explorers etc.

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Outlook style list view control with sorting, grouping, preview pane, drag & drop.Features:

• Outlook style list view control
• Built-in automatic grouping on columns
• Automatic sorting with sorting for text, numeric, date, checkbox … type columns
• Possibility to show a column in a preview pane
• Drag & drop between groups in the control or between multiple AdvOutlookList components
• Various column styles including checkbox, image, progresss bar, hyperlink, HTML text
• HTML rendering with images, hyperlinks of text in columns
• Direct or incremental keyboard lookup
• Single or multiselect mode.

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