Table controls in Measurement Studio/C++

[ilya]

It seems that in Measurement Studio there is no table control like in LabWindows/CVI. If I need to use a table in my C++ aplication, is there an easy way to do that?

[Elton Wells]

What are you trying to do? List view may do what you need. Alternatively, there are several data grid ActiveX controls available that may do what you want. Please respond with more info about you're trying to do and we can make better suggestions.

- Elton

[ilya]

Basically in a typical application I need to display the numeric data in a table and be able to edit the values in every cell individually. The table is not simply a list, it has several columns. Also the type of the values in each column needs to be controlled separately. So, all this functionality is ideally implemented by LabWindows CVI table control, but I could not find anything similar in Measurement Studio VC++.

Could you comment a little bit on the Active X data grid controls? This sounds like what I need.

Thanks a lot!

[Elton Wells]

First, you may want to check out the free extended list views and grid controls that you can find online. For example, Code Project has several extended MFC list controls and MFC grid controls. There are also several commercial grids available if you search around. Off the top of my head, there's Infragistics COM grid, Rogue Wave Objective Grid, Mabry Software Grid/X, and Janus Systems GridEX.

Another option is that you could develop this part of your user interface with CVI, then you could convert the CVI project to a Visual C++ project with the Measurement Studio application wizard, and then develop the rest of your application using Measurement Studio for Visual C++ libraries.

- Elton

[ilya]

OK, thanks a lot!