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Property Grid for ActiveX COM Property Grid for ActiveX COM provides Windows developers with a comprehensive, fully cust...

 

Property Grid for ActiveX COM

Property Grid for ActiveX COM provides Windows developers with a comprehensive, fully customizable property grid giving your application a professional and modern interface. Windows developers can easily create a hierarchical list of editable properties and represent any data type or sub-item.

 

Features Overview

Codejock Property Grid for ActiveX COM provides several options to choose from including Integrated Toolbar and Help Panel, Hierarchical Editable List, Inplace Button Controls, Data Sorting, Combo List, Splitter Sizing, Masked Edit, Visual Studio and Office Theme Support, Built in Data Types and much more! Property Grid is included with the Suite Pro for ActiveX COM evaluation.

 

⑴ Theme Support

 

Visual Studio 2012

Codejock Software's Property Grid provides your application with full Visual Studio 2012 theme support that gives your application the closest, most exact Visual Studio 2012 style themes of any 3rd party tool available today. Visual Studio 2012 is already built in, so you don't have to spend any extra time on this.  This allows you the ability to stay ahead of the competition with the latest in application GUI design.

 

Light theme example
Light theme example

Dark theme example
Dark theme example

 

Visual Studio 2010

Codejock Software's Property Grid provides your application with full Visual Studio 2010 theme support that gives your application the closest, most exact Visual Studio 2010 style themes of any 3rd party tool available today. Visual Studio 2010 is already built in, so you don't have to spend any extra time on this.  This allows you the ability to stay ahead of the competition with the latest in application GUI design.

Visual Studio 2010 Theme Support

 

Office 2010

Codejock Software's Property Grid provides your application with full Office 2010 theme support that gives your application the closest, most exact Office 2010 style themes of any 3rd party tool available today. Office 2010 is already built in, so you don't have to spend any extra time on this.  This allows you the ability to stay ahead of the competition with the latest in application GUI design.

 

Blue theme example
Blue theme example

Black theme example
Black theme example

Silver theme example
Silver theme example

Office 2013

Codejock Software's Property Grid provides your application with full Office 2013 theme support that gives your application the closest, most exact Office 2013 style themes of any 3rd party tool available today. Office 2013 is already built in, so you don't have to spend any extra time on this.  This allows you the ability to stay ahead of the competition with the latest in application GUI design.

Office 2013 Theme Support

 

Office 2007

Codejock Software's Property Grid provides your application with full Office 2007 theme support that gives your application the closest, most exact Office 2007 style themes of any 3rd party tool available today. Office 2007 is already built in, so you don't have to spend any extra time on this.  This allows you the ability to stay ahead of the competition with the latest in application GUI design.

 

Blue theme example.
Blue theme example

Black theme example.
Black theme example

Silver theme example.

Silver theme example

 

Office 2003

Codejock Software's Property Grid provides your application with full Office 2003 theme support that gives your application the closest, most exact Office 2003 style themes of any 3rd party tool available today. Office 2003 is already built in, so you don't have to spend any extra time on this.  This allows you the ability to stay ahead of the competition with the latest in application GUI design.

Office 2003 Theme

 

Windows XP

Codejock Software's Property Grid provides your application with full Windows XP theme support that gives your application the closest, most exact Windows XP style themes of any 3rd party tool available today. Windows XP is already built in, so you don't have to spend any extra time on this.  This allows you the ability to stay ahead of the competition with the latest in application GUI design.

Windows XP Theme Support

 

Delphi

Codejock Software's Property Grid provides your application with full Delphi theme support that gives your application the closest, most exact Delphi style themes of any 3rd party tool available today. Delphi is already built in, so you don't have to spend any extra time on this.  This allows you the ability to stay ahead of the competition with the latest in application GUI design.

Delphi Theme Support

 

Cool

Codejock Software's Property Grid provides built in theme support for a "cool" appearance. You can choose this theme for a more classic windows appearance, or choose from several pre-defined theme styles created for Property Grid.

Cool Theme Support

 

Simple

Codejock Software's Property Grid provides built in theme support for a "simple" appearance. You can choose this theme for a more classic windows appearance, or choose from several pre-defined theme styles created for Property Grid.

Simple Theme Support

 

Default

Codejock Software's Property Grid provides built in theme support for a "default" appearance.  You can choose this theme for a more classic windows appearance, or choose from several pre-defined theme styles created for Property Grid.

Default Theme Support

 

⑵ General Features

 

Integrated Toolbar

Property Grid comes with its own toolbar built in for sorting data which can easily be turned on or off. The toolbar supports categorized and alphabetical sorting routines.

Integrated Toolbar

 

Integrated Help Panel

Property Grid comes with an integrated help panel that you can use to display helpful hint about selected items in your property grid. This feature can easily be turned on or off.

Help Panel

 

Hierarchical List

Property Grid allows you to display your data in a hierarchical list for editing. You can easily group multiple levels of data that can be displayed by expanding or collapsing property groups.

Hierarchical List

 

.Net Style Verb Panel

Verbs will be displayed in a separate panel just below the property grid. Verbs are links that can be used to perform actions in your application. If both the verb panel and help panel are visible at the same time, the verb panel is displayed above the help panel.
A PropertyGridVerb is a link similar to what is seen in Visual Studio .NET. For example, when the DataGrid control is selected at design time in VS .NET, an AutoFormat link button appears in the Properties window just below the property grid and above the help panel.

.NET style Verb Panel

 

Inplace Buttons

Property Grid allows you to add in-place buttons to your data values. These buttons can be shown all the time or only when the item has focus. For example, you can add a "find" button to a text field.

Inplace Buttons

 

Data Sorting

Property Grid allows you to sort your data by category, alphabetical, or leave it unsorted. This built in feature allows greater control over how your data is displayed.

 

Sort your data by category
Sort Category

And alphabetically
Sort Alphabetically

⑶ Customization

 

Combo List

You can use the Property Grid's "combo button" to create a combo style drop-down list.

Combo List

 

Edit Property

You can use the Property Grid's "expand" button to display your own custom dialog when the user clicks on the expand button.  You can add the expand button to any of the data types that do not normally have one.

Edit Property

 

Splitter Position

Property Grid allows you to change the position of the splitter that splits the data from the description in your property grid.  This allows you to easily adjust the splitter so you can display as much or as little of the data description as you like.

 

Splitter position set to 30%
Splitter Position 30%

Splitter position set to 70%
Splitter Position 70%

 

 

Mask Edit

You can use the Property Grid's "mask edit" property which allows you to create a mask edit style property item.  You can use any combination of "mask characters" combined with additional characters to create a restrictive field for text entry.  For example, if you wanted to display a prompt for a telephone number, you can restrict data entry to only numeric values with the first three numbers inside of parentheses.

Mask Edit

 

Item Metrics

Property Grid allows the use of XAML code snippets to be used for formatting text of the categories and items in the property grid.

Item Metrics

 

Customizable Appearance

Property Grid allows you to customize the appearance of the property grid by setting your own colors and fonts for the control. Combined with the ability to hide/show the toolbar and help panel, gives you greater control over how your grid will appear.

Customizable Appearance

 

⑷ Built in Data Types

 

Boolean

You can use the Property Grid's "Boolean" data type to create a Boolean (true/false) style property item.

Boolean Data Type

 

Color

You can use the Property Grid's "Color" data type to create a Color style property item that will display a "color picker" dialog when you click on the expand button that allows you to choose any of the predefined colors, or you can define a custom color.

Color data type
Color Data Type

A color picker dialog is included to select colors
Color Picker Dialog

 

Date

You can use the Property Grid's "Date" data type to create a Date style property item that will display a "date picker" when you click on the expand button that allows you to choose the day, month, and year from a GUI.

Date Data Type

 

Double

You can use the Property Grid's "double" data type to create a Double style property item that will store a decimal point along with the number so you can perform precise calculations. 

Double Data Type

 

Font

You can use the Property Grid's "font" data type to create a font style property item.  This property item will display a browse button that when pressed will display a font selection dialog.

Font data type.
Font data type

A Font selector dialog is included.
A Font selector dialog is included

 

Number

You can use the Property Grid's "number" data type to create a number style property item.

Number Data Type

 

Picture

You can use the Property Grid's "picture" data type to create a picture style property item.  This property item will display a browse button that when pressed will display a file selection dialog that allows you to import a picture file.  Supported picture formats include bmp, ico, and cur just to name a few.

Picture data type
Data Type

A file selection dialog is included to choose your picture
File Selection Dialog

 

Read Only

You can use the Property Grid's "read only" data type to create a property item that is read only.  Users will be able to see the data, but can not edit it. 

Read Only Data Type

 

Text

You can use the Property Grid's "text" data type for text based properties.

Text Data Type

 

Options Data Type

You can use the Property Grid's "options" data type to add options and radio buttons. This is useful when a property can have more than 1 value or you want to allows them to select 1 or more values for a given property.

Options Data Type

 

Dynamic Data Types

You can use the Property Grid's "dynamic" data types to show or hide more options based on the value of another value.

Dynamic Data Types

 

⑸ Supported Environments

 

Visual Studio 2019

Visual Studio 2017

Visual Studio 2015

Visual Studio 2013

Visual Studio 2012

Visual Studio 2010

Visual Studio 2008

Visual Studio 2005

Visual Studio 2003

Visual Studio 2002

Visual Basic 6.0

Microsoft Access

Visual FoxPro

Delphi

Html

 

⑹ Operating Systems ( x32, x64 )

 

Windows 10

Windows 8.1

Windows 8

Windows 7

Windows Vista

Windows XP

Windows Me

Windows 2000

Windows 98 SE

Windows 98

Windows 95

Windows Server 2016

Windows Server 2012 R2

Windows Server 2012

Windows Server 2008 R2

Windows Server 2008

Windows Server 2003 R2

Windows Server 2003

Windows Server 2000

Windows NT 4.0

 

⑺ Minimum Requirements

 

Visual Basic 6.0

Windows 95 / NT 4.0

 

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