Question Multi-line Data Views

[olam]

Does anyone know about a .NET application that can show multi-line data views like this:

 

[jmcilhinney]

There may be third-party grids that can do it out-of-the-box, but doing that with a DataGridView would be quite difficult, although possible I think. You could probably do it with a DataRepeater without too much issue I think, although that will then not be a grid so you won't be able to click a column header to sort and that sort of thing unless you implement it yourself.

 

[olam]

There may be third-party grids that can do it out-of-the-box

That is what I'm looking for. I have found DBGrid from ComponentOne that can do this. That is where I got the screen shot from. But this module is a little bit expensive for my budget. I was hoping to find something more reasonable. Have also been thinking about this we the data grid that is coming with VS, but that will never be very user friendly.

 

[jmcilhinney]

Creating a grid control from scratch is a lot of work. Don't expect to find too many cheap options around. I'm not aware of everything that's available but a grid control is orders of magnitude more complex than custom buttons and text boxes so expect to pay accordingly.

 

[olam]

jmcilhinney, I agree with you that it is a lot of work to create a grid control from scratch. But, does that mean that I should pay $1000 for this module or $100? I'm using several modules that are free. One example is a real-time scope graph that is showing amplitude vs time. This module has a lot of functions like, auto scaling, customized colors, filtering etc. etc. I'm sure there is a lot of work to make this module from scratch as well, but you can get it for free, it is a open source project. I'm willing to pay for modules too, and I often do that.

I hope you understand my intention a little better now. I'm just reaching out to my fellow software developers to kindly ask for some advice. I chose this forum because it seems to be a fairly active and serious forum. A big thank you to you and however else is running it.

 

[jmcilhinney]

I wasn't trying to criticise or put you off, just suggest that what you want may not be possible. Like I said, I'm certainly not aware of everything out there so maybe it is.

 

[olam]

I understand that it might not be possible.

No hard feelings, right?