Unify Report and Property Grid Controls : I would like to offer the suggestion...

Mon, 05 Sep 2005 15:35:14 +0000

Author: Warren
Subject: 2846
Posted: 05 September 2005 at 3:35pm

I would like to offer the suggestion that the report control items beunified with the property grid items of a similar nature (i.e. thecontrols that are in-place-activated - CXTPReportInplaceControl andCXTPPropertyGridItem).

The property grid offers a whole assortment of fully-functional andvery useful built-in items that are really needed in, but missing from,the Report Control (e.g. date pickers, masked edits, color pickers,font picker, file pickers) because the chain of derivation isdifferent, the functionality has to be duplicated by hand.

For example, the existing hierarchy is:
class CXTPReportInplaceEdit : public CEdit, public CXTPReportInplaceControl;
class CXTPPropertyGridInplaceEdit : public CXTMaskEditT;

Is there a way to factor out all of the common functionality into acommon masked editing class? (in the final analysis, they really arevery similar - just custom drawing/validating controls in a rectangularsection of a the "parent" control)

I will freely admit I haven't looked very deeply at the reasons for theway the classes hierarchies are setup (and I'm sure there is a goodreason for the way it is), but it would be very nice to be able towrite a single custom-control, and then be able to multiply derive fromsomething else (e.g. CXTPReportInplaceControl, or a"CXTPPropertyGridInPlaceControl" type class) to add it to the reportcontrol, property grid, or on to a toolbar.

If you think I'm out to lunch with the above suggestion, I'd reallyappreciate having these items (i.e. date pickers, masked edits, colorpickers, font picker, file pickers - especially date pickers) added to the list of built-in report control items.

Just my two cents worth...

Warren

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