Hi Kurt and thanks for your reply.

Regards,

Gerard

>Hi Gerard,
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>We use a combination of controls in our applications to give the look and feel of Microsoft Outlook. We use the ctListBar (from DBI Technologies) on the left side of the main form to show different modules of the application, then on the right side of the main form, we use a control called SharpGrid from Data Dynamics.
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>Both controls work well, we haven't experienced any major problems with them in our FoxPro applications, however the documentation could be better. Also note that all of our applications are n-tier so we don't use Foxpro cursors, all data is being passed as XML to the client and then converted to an ADO Recordset that is then bound to the SharpGrid control.
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>Here are the web urls, both products have demo versions of the controls that you can download and use.
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>http://www.datadynamics.com/sharpgrid/default.htm
>http://www.dbi-tech.com/ctListBar.asp
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>A few years ago I did develop an application using the ListView and Treeview controls from Microsoft, sort of a windows explorer front-end. I found that the users were not as comfortable with this type of look and feel since they don't think of data in a heirarchical view the same way you or myself may.
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>Hope this helps,
>Kurt
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>>Hi.
>>I am starting to implement Hierarchical views of data in my app and would welvome adviice on the current 'flavour of the month' controls to use
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>>Looking at the available ones in the Active X controls, there seems to be a no. of options:
>>Microsoft Treeview Control
>>Ctree View Control
>>Outline Control
>>Mocrosoft List View Control 6.0
>> and probably lots more...
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>>At this stage, I dont have a clue as to the merits or otherwise of any of these, or indeed if there are other /better ways of showing data hierarchically.
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>>The criteria I would use for selecting would be :
>>Ease of use, Stability, easily distributable in an exe and 'looks' up to date
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>>Regards,
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>>Gerard