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Progress Cell for Grid Control.

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A new cell progress-bar-like type for Chris Maunder's Grid Control.

Demo Piccie

Introduction

For a recent project, I needed to monitor the progress of a variable number of long tasks. This could be from none to hundreds in the extreme case. After abandoning the idea of creating / hiding / destroying an army of actual progress controls, I hit on the idea of creating a cell type for Chris Maunder's grid control. I already knew how to use it from multiple projects. I knew it had the flexibility I needed, so it was just a case of rolling up my sleeves and writing a new CGridCell...

Using the code

Using the code should not be too tough. Just add the header to your CPP file:

#include "GridCellProgress.h"

and use the cell type as you would any other grid cell type.

CGridCellProgress *pProg;
for (int n = 0; n < 10; n++)
    m_Grid.SetCellType (n, 0, RUNTIME_CLASS(CGridCellProgress));

pProg = (CGridCellProgress *)m_Grid.GetCell (0,0);
pProg->SetText ("One");
pProg->SetPos (0);

New Cell Methods

I like to think these new cell method names are pretty self explanatory. (Yes, I'm lazy.)

virtual    BOOL    EnablePercentage (BOOL bEnable);
virtual    BOOL    EnablePathCompaction (BOOL bEnable);

virtual    void    SetRange(int nLower, int nUpper);
virtual    void    SetLower(int nLower);
virtual    void    SetUpper(int nUpper);
virtual    void    SetPos    (int nPos);
virtual void    SetColor(COLORREF clr);

virtual    void    GetRange(int &nLower, int &nUpper);
virtual    int    GetLower();
virtual    int    GetUpper();
virtual    int    GetPos    ();
virtual COLORREF GetColor();

Notes

This was tested against v2.24 of the grid control, and includes that in the sample project. From the Grid Controls page, there is a v2.25 now available. There shouldn't be any difficulty with the new version. Similarly, I haven't tested this on ME, Win 2K3, Longhorn etc. I don't anticipate problems, but you never know! I've been caught out assuming before...

I have also used Color instead of spelling it properly as Colour. I find myself typing American for SDK functions etc, and properly for my own variables. As the new cell functions imitate those of CProgressCtrl, I thought I'd better imitate the spelling too.

Acknowledgements

There are two obvious people to thank:

  • Chris Maunder for his excellent Grid control class, which I have used many times.
  • Secondly, Keith Rule for his neat and tidy CMemDC class. While I haven't used it directly here, Chris does, and I have used it elsewhere to good effect.

History

  • 2004 May 11th - First released into the wild.

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I've been working for ~13 years writing software for machine control and data analysis. I now work on financial transaction transformation software, for a Software company in Gamlastan, Stockholm.
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Comments and Discussions

 
GeneralMy vote of 5 Pin
Manoj Kumar Choubey18-Feb-12 0:02
professionalManoj Kumar Choubey18-Feb-12 0:02 
GeneralSelected cells Pin
Eugene Podkopaev3-Jul-06 0:24
Eugene Podkopaev3-Jul-06 0:24 
GeneralRe: Selected cells Pin
tagNevRA6-Oct-08 23:47
tagNevRA6-Oct-08 23:47 
GeneralDisplaying Percentage in narrow column Pin
skonopa30-Mar-06 9:24
skonopa30-Mar-06 9:24 
GeneralRe: Displaying Percentage in narrow column Pin
Iain Clarke, Warrior Programmer31-Mar-06 0:27
Iain Clarke, Warrior Programmer31-Mar-06 0:27 
GeneralRe: Displaying Percentage in narrow column Pin
skonopa31-Mar-06 6:57
skonopa31-Mar-06 6:57 
GeneralRe: Displaying Percentage in narrow column Pin
Iain Clarke, Warrior Programmer2-Apr-06 21:53
Iain Clarke, Warrior Programmer2-Apr-06 21:53 
I've just added a couple of lines to my demo dialog program:
m_Grid.SetColumnCount (2); // TEST 1->2
m_Grid.SetRowCount (10);
m_Grid.SetFixedRowCount (1); // TEST
m_Grid.ExpandColumnsToFit ();


in order to test the problems, and I don't see the effects you are describing. The strings collapse to a single character and a single dot, while the percentages just get drawn right-justified.

When the article was written, I was running Win2K, but my dev machine is now XP.

What OS are you running on?

Iain.
GeneralRe: Displaying Percentage in narrow column Pin
skonopa4-Apr-06 3:46
skonopa4-Apr-06 3:46 
GeneralFound weird bug Pin
skonopa30-Mar-06 9:07
skonopa30-Mar-06 9:07 
GeneralUse in vm Pin
pietro7719-May-04 22:00
pietro7719-May-04 22:00 
GeneralUse in vm Pin
pietro7719-May-04 0:12
pietro7719-May-04 0:12 
GeneralRe: Use in vm Pin
Iain Clarke, Warrior Programmer19-May-04 1:10
Iain Clarke, Warrior Programmer19-May-04 1:10 
GeneralRe: Use in vm Pin
Iain Clarke, Warrior Programmer19-May-04 1:31
Iain Clarke, Warrior Programmer19-May-04 1:31 
GeneralThat first 5 *wasn't* by me! Pin
Iain Clarke, Warrior Programmer11-May-04 22:37
Iain Clarke, Warrior Programmer11-May-04 22:37 

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