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Welcome
Emil Stojanov
Quantaris B.V.
November 2006
Quantaris B.V.
Topics
Part I
Part II
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Scheduler / cGrid
User-Interface
Quantaris B.V.
Scheduler - needs
We needed a new scheduler.
The basis should be a fully customizable
and very flexible grid
Data-Awareness was not very important
It is all about graphics
We were not alone…
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Scheduler - solution
Data Access Europe offered to built a
solution
We delivered a list of needs and wishes
Result was a basic Grid class that could be
controlled in every way.
It can be yours! Contact Data Access
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cGrid
API mode
Before drawing a cell the grid will ask to
provide the properties of a cell
Direct mode
You fill an array of structures describing every
cell
The grid will generate an in-memory bitmap
So, you are looking at a picture…
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Example API mode
Object oGrid is a cGrid
Object oCol1 is a cGridColumn
Set psHeaderLabel
Set piWidth
Set peWrapStyle
Set pbResize
End_Object
Function APIRowCount …
Function APISubColumnText …
Function APISubColumnData …
Function APICanResizeSubColumn
…
End_Object
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Example Direct mode
Object oGrid is a cGrid
Object oCol1 is a cGridColumn
Set psHeaderLabel
Set piWidth
Set peWrapStyle
Set pbResize
End_Object
Procedure OnFillGrid
GridInfo tGrid
Get ptGridInfo to tGrid
//Fill the array of structs (tGrid)
Set ptGridInfo to tGrid
End_Procedure
End_Object
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Cell Properties
Struct SubColInfo
Integer data
Integer extra
Short flags
Integer selectedBackColor
Integer selectedTextColor
Integer backColor
Integer textColor
Integer backColorStart
Integer backColorEnd
Integer image
String text
Handle font
Integer verticalLineColor
Integer verticalLineThickness
Integer verticalLineColorStart
Integer verticalLineColorEnd
Integer horizontalLineColor
Integer horizontalLineThickness
Integer horizontalLineColorStart
Integer horizontalLineColorEnd
Boolean readonly
Boolean canDrag
Boolean canResize
Boolean isValidDropTarget
String tooltipText
Integer tooltipIcon
String tooltipTitle
End_Struct
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Scheduler / cGrid
Let’s see how it looks…
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User Interface
Software has to look good
It is a selling point…
You can loose a customer because a
competitor has a better looking application
even when it has less functionality.
An example…
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Selling your software
You have one hour to convince the prospect
that he (or she) just can’t live any longer
without your software.
You could talk for
one hour about the
specs and how great
your software is, or…
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Selling your software
Do the specs really matter?
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Selling your software
No, she is not one of my colleagues, so our
software must look good.
Our users spend most of their time working
with MS Word (XP or 2003)
That should be our reference
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CodeJock
Following the example of Data Access we
decided to use CodeJock for the follwing:
Menu
Toolbar’s
Statusbar’s
Taskpanel
The result? Let me show you.
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Questions?
It’s time to wake up and ‘pimp’ your app!
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