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Monday, April 26, 2021

Intro

The multi-device, true native app platform The FireMonkey® framework is the app development and runtime platform behind RAD Studio, Delphi and C++Builder. FireMonkey is designed for teams building multi-device, true native apps for Windows, OS X, Android and iOS, and getting them to app stores and enterprises fast.

source: https://www.embarcadero.com/products/rad-studio/fm-application-platform

FMX (FireMonkey) released in 2011 and shortly after we delivered a first set of components. Today, we want to show you the TTMSFNCGrid component, a high performance multi-feature grid

TMS Software Delphi Components

Features

Below is a list of the most important features the TTMSFNCGrid has to offer. The features are not limited to this list, but this will give you a quick insight on what we offer to be able to create an application that visualizes your data in a grid structure in FireMonkey.

Column Persistence
Fixed cell single and range selection
Autosizing columns / rows on double-click
Highly configurable and flexible grid
Various cell types available and built-in as well as support for custom cell types
Fixed columns left and/or right, fixed rows at top and/or bottom.
Column & row freezing
High performance virtual mode
Several selection modes: single & multi cell, column, row, distinct cell, row, column
Cells with support for HTML formatted text, hyperlinks
Editing with range of built-in editor types and capability of using custom cell inplace editors
Cell merging and splitting
Grouping support with summary rows, and group calculations such as average, sum, min, max, custom calculation...
Filtering with optional auto filtering via dropdown
Different cell layouts for different cell states
Read-only and/or fixed state per cell configurable
Single column sorting, indexed column sorting, grouped column & indexed column sorting
Pixel and cell scrolling modes
Keyboard and Mouse handling customization: tab, enter, insert, delete key handling
Column and row dragging and sizing
Cell controls such as checkbox, radiobutton, button, bitmap, progressbar etc...
Configurable touch scrolling optimized for iOS / Android
Banding
Clipboard support
HTML Export
PDF Export
Excel Import / Export via the TTMSFNCGridExcelIO
Find and replace functionality
Separate ToolBar Popup

Learn More!

Want to learn more about what the TTMSFNCGrid can do? Here is a video that highlights some of the above features through a demo application.

Download & Explore!

The TTMSFNCGrid component is part of the TMS FNC UI Pack, which, on top of FMX, also offers the ability to write your code once and target other frameworks (VCL, LCL and WEB). You can download a full featured trial version of the TMS FNC UI Pack and start exploring the capabilities of the TTMSFNCGrid component.

Stay tuned!

The TTMSFNCGrid is the fifth and last component of a series of components that is covered to empower your FMX (FireMonkey) developments. We started the series with a general overview of the most important components that we have to offer, followed by the TTMSFNCRichEditor, TTMSFNCPlanner, TTMSFNCTreeView and the TTMSFNCKanbanBoard. Keep an eye on our blog post for more exciting news coming up for the FMX framework and FNC in the form of a whole new platform!

Pieter Scheldeman