Thank you for your help Reinier and Howard. Let me give you some background. I'm evaluating Lazarus/FPC to convert a large Excel engineering scheduling VBA program (16K lines of code x 3 similar modules) to Pascal. I developed it in VBA for a friend because Excel's formatting and shape controls made it easy to prototype the look and feel he wanted. Unfortunately, we can't use Excel to distribute it commercially because of it's lack of security and the need to revise it to run under constantly changing MS Office. The program is stable in 32 bit and we'd like to have it run on other platforms. Besides that, I really loved Delphi when I used it years ago and have converted one engineering program with Lazarus already. Our program does not need spreadsheet calculation capability since almost all data is entered directly, or pasted from form and shape controls. From what I see so far, Lazarus will let me do everything once I learn the finer details of existing controls and relearn how to build components.
On the stringgrid, I should have said that I specifically need to change SOME cell's attributes, such as cell borders, and I think it will need to use DrawGrid. I have read everything I can find find, such as the grid reference you recommended, but this old brain has the remnants of too many languages in it to sort it out quickly. It's gotten too used to IDEs that step you through object properties, events, etc.. From what I've read in the archives, the standard procedure is to go to the Lazarus source code and track down undocumented parameter and type requirements. I hope I'm missing some documentation. I intend to pursue the Lazarus solution and would be glad to do what engineers do - tabulate my findings. If someone can tell me how to post a .png image to the forum I can show you the stringgrid format I need. It's not complicated, but I need to duplicate what we've created. Any help is appreciated and I will reciprocate any way I can. Gary -- View this message in context: http://free-pascal-lazarus.989080.n3.nabble.com/Setting-TStringGrid-row-col-border-styles-tp4036389p4036405.html Sent from the Free Pascal - Lazarus mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
