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The CellHeights property specifies the height of each of the rows of the spreadsheet. It may be a single value which applies to all rows, or a vector with one element per row. The CellWidths property determines the width of each column of the spreadsheet. It too may be a single value or a vector with one element per column.

The RowTitles property is either an empty character vector (the default) or a vector of character vectors that specify row titles displayed to the left of the cells in the Grid. If RowTitles is not specified, the Grid labels each row with its row number. The ColTitles property is similar and is used to specify column headings. If ColTitles is not specified, the Grid displays "standard" spreadsheet column headings A-Z, then AA-AZ and so forth.

The TitleHeight property specifies height of the column headers. If this is set to 0, the column titles will not be displayed. Similarly, the TitleWidth property specifies the width of the row titles and again a value of zero disables the row titles.

The FontObj property may be used to specify the font to be used for the Grid as a whole, including the titles. The CellFonts property may be used to specify fonts for individual cells.

The FCol and BCol properties may each specify a single colour for the Grid as a whole, or may specify a vector of colours whose elements are mapped to individual cells through the CellTypes property.

The CellFonts property is either a character vector or a vector of character vectors that specifies the name of a single font object to be used for all cells in the Grid, or a vector of character vectors that specifies a set of font objects that are mapped to individual cells through the CellTypes property.

The Input property is a character vector that specifies the name of an object which is to be associated with every cell in the Grid, or a vector of names whose elements are mapped to individual cells through the CellTypes property. These objects may be of type Button, ColorButton, Combo, Edit, Label, Spinner or TrackBar. In addition, the Input property may specify instances of OCXClass objects (ActiveX controls) and NetType objects (.NET classes).

If the Input property is empty (the default) the user may browse the data in the spreadsheet but may not alter it. Furthermore, no feedback is provided as to which is the current cell. If the Input property specifies the name of an object that is the child of the Grid itself, this object floats from cell to cell as the user moves around the spreadsheet, and the current cell is identified by its presence.

If the Input property specifies the name of an external object (that is, an object that is not a child of the Grid), the contents of the current cell are copied into that object as the user moves around the spreadsheet. In addition, the current cell is identified by a thick border. In either case, the associated object is used to impose formatting and validation.

If the Input property specifies the name of a Label object, that object is used to impose formatting, but the data is protected and may not be changed. If the Label is a child of the Grid, it moves from cell to cell, and its characteristics (Border, FCol, BCol and FontObj) can be used to identify the current cell. If the Label is an external one, no visual feedback is provided; even though the current cell (reflected by the CurCell property) changes as the user moves around the Grid.

If the Input property specifies one or more instances of OCXClass objects (ActiveX controls) and NetType objects (.NET classes), the InputProperties property is used to map the Values property of the Grid to specific properties of the external object.

The CellTypes property is either an empty numeric matrix (the default) or an integer matrix of the same shape as Values. If specified, each element of CellTypes determines the index into various properties, including the FCol, BCol, CellFonts and Input properties, to be used for the corresponding cell. For example, if an element in CellTypes is 3, the 3rd element of FCol is used for the foreground colour of the corresponding cell, the 3rd element of BCol specifies the background colour, and so forth.

The CurCell property may be used to set or query the current cell. The current cell is the cell which the user has picked by clicking the mouse over it or by using the cursor keys. CurCell is a 2-element vector containing the current cell's row number and column number respectively and is ⎕IO dependent. The Index property specifies the row and column number of the cell in the top-left corner of the Grid. It too is ⎕IO dependent.

The AutoExpand property is a 2-element Boolean vector which specifies whether (1) or not (0) new rows and columns are added when the user presses the corresponding cursor key when at the end of the block of cells. Its default value is (0 0).

The Grid object reports a CellDown event when the user depresses a mouse button over a cell. The event message contains the row and column address of the cell in question which is ⎕IO dependent. It also reports a similar CellUp event when the mouse button is released and a CellDblClick event when it is double-clicked. The number of the mouse button and the state of the shift keys are also reported.

When the user moves to another cell, the Grid object reports a CellMove event. This simply reports the address of the new cell and may be used to take some appropriate action when a particular cell is picked. If the user alters the data in a cell and then attempts to move to another, the Grid reports a CellChange event. This can be used to perform validation.

Alternatively, the Grid may report a CellChanged event which occurs after the Values property has been updated with the new cell contents. This may be used to perform immediate recalculation.

The AddRow event is generated if the current cell is in the last row of the Grid and the user presses Cursor Down. By default, this operation adds a new row to the Grid, but you can attach a callback to the AddRow and selectively disable this default action if required. The AddCol event works in a similar manner for columns. Although the user has no direct means of inserting a row or column, your application can do this by calling AddRow or AddCol as a method on the Grid object. Typically this would be done in response to the user selecting a MenuItem or pressing a Button.

The ColChange, RowChange, DelRow, DelCol and Undo methods allow your application to perform these corresponding operations.

The Grid object maintains a buffer of the most recent 8 changes made by the user since the Values property was last set by ⎕WC or ⎕WS. Your application can restore these changes one by one by calling the Undo method. The Undo method restores the most recent change made by the user and removes that change from the undo stack. It is therefore not possible to "undo an undo".

The Grid supports the selection of a block or blocks of cells using the mouse and/or the keyboard. The ability to select a range of cells is determined by the CellSelect property. When the user performs a selection, the Grid generates a GridSelect event. The range of cells currently selected is given by the SelItems property.

If a block of cells has been selected, the user may delete the contents, and cut or copy the contents of the cells to the clipboard by pressing Delete, Shift+Delete or Ctrl+Insert respectively. These operations also generate GridDelete, GridCut and GridCopy events which you can selectively disable using a callback function. You can also perform these operations under program control by calling them as methods.

If more than one block of cells has been selected, these operations are honoured only if the blocks begin and end on the same rows or begin and end on the same columns. If so, the data placed in the clipboard is the result of joining the blocks horizontally or vertically as appropriate.

The user may paste data from the clipboard into a Grid by pressing Shift+Insert. Data is pasted into the currently selected block of cells, or, if there is no selection, data is pasted starting at the current cell (CurCell). The operation also generates a GridPaste event, and, if the operation cannot proceed, a GridPasteError event.

If you move the mouse pointer over any of the four edges of a selected block of cells, the cursor changes to an arrow. You may now click and drag the border of the selected cells with the mouse.

If you press the Ctrl key at the same time, the contents of the selected cells are copied to the new location, replacing the values in the block of cells onto which they are dropped. Otherwise, the operation is treated as a move and the original block of cells is emptied. This operation also generates a GridDropSel event. You may only move or copy a single block of cells in this way.

The user may be permitted to resize the rows and/or columns of a Grid. This is controlled by the ResizeRows and ResizeCols properties whose default values are 0. To allow the user to resize, set either or both to 1. You can also specify a Boolean vector to allow specific rows/columns to be resized while others are fixed. Two additional properties named ResizeRowTitles and ResizeColTitles determine whether or not the user may alter the width of the row titles and the height of the column titles.

If resizable, the cursor changes to a double-heads arrow when the user moves the mouse pointer over the lines between the row and/or column titles. The user may click and drag with the mouse to the desired size. The user may also double-click. This causes the row or column to be resized to fit the data. Both operations generate a SetColSize, or SetRowSize event.

When you edit data in a Grid, the editing behaviour and the action of the cursor movement keys is determined by the InputMode and InputModeKey properties.

The GridFCol property specifies the colour of all the grid lines. Alternatively, the GridLineFCol, GridLineWidth, RowLineTypes and ColLineTypes properties may specify the appearance for individual grid lines.

The GridBCol property specifies the colour used to fill the area between the end of the last column of data and the right edge of the Grid and between the bottom row of data and the bottom edge of the Grid.

The RowTitleFCol and ColTitleFCol properties specify the colours to be used for the row and column titles respectively.

The ClipCells property determines whether or not the Grid displays partial cells. The default is 1. If you set ClipCells to 0, the Grid displays only complete cells and automatically fills the space between the last visible cell and the edge of the Grid with the GridBCol colour.

The CellSet property is a Boolean array that marks which cells are set (i.e. have values) and which are empty. This allows you to edit large numeric matrices which contain empty cells without a severe workspace penalty.

The HScroll and VScroll properties specify whether or not horizontal and vertical scrollbars are displayed. Either property may be given the value ¯3 which forces the corresponding scrollbar to appear always. VScroll and HScroll may only be set when the object is created and may not subsequently be changed.

The Grid object supports comments in a manner that is consistent with the way that comments are handled by Microsoft Excel. If a comment is associated with a cell, a small red triangle is displayed in its top right corner. When the user rests the mouse pointer over a commented cell, the comment is displayed as a pop-up with an arrow pointing back to the cell to which it refers. The comment disappears when the mouse pointer is moved away. This is referred to as tip behaviour. Comments may also be associated with row and column titles.

Grid comments are managed by a set of methods, namely AddComment, DelComment, GetComment, ShowComment, HideComment and ClickComment.

You may lock individual rows and columns using the LockRows and LockColumns methods. This facility is however not supported in combination with hierarchical rows and/or columns which are specified by RowTitleDepth and ColTitleDepth.

The Grid can display a TreeView like interface on the Row titles. In this mode, the Grid automatically shows and hides row of data as the end user expands and contracts nodes of the tree.

The RowTreeDepth property is used to specify the depth of rows in the Grid.

The appearance of the tree is determined by the RowTreeStyle property.

User defined bitmaps can be used instead of the default Images by setting the RowTreeImages property.

The Grid generates Expanding and Retracting events when the user interacts with the tree.

The RowSetVisibleDepth method can be used to set the visible depth of the tree.