Trying to make a 'simple' (at the moment) spreadsheet app, but having checked win32.hlp I have a couple of questions someone may be able to help with...

1) Do the cells have to be drawn (i.e. lines or rectangles) or is there a proper method of creating cells?

2) How does one access the cells to place data in them and read from them etc.

3) Is there a special window-class or should I use something like a multi-edit \rich-edit control?

thx for any help or pointers

mori

there is no more proper way, they always have to be drawn.only question is whether you want to draw it yourself, or you have some library that is good enough to draw it for you. Using third party library iften isn't PROPER way

moriman,

Unless you really want to write the spreadsheet yourself, you can use the RadASM spreadsheet DLL control. A very nice 43 K DLL that allows you to create a custom spreadsheet of your chosen size, with your own formulas, data validation-you write the routines-, and mush more.

Look at www.radasm.com and click at the left side of the screen on RadASM projects, and download the custctl.zip file. It's full of other very useful stuff. The examples are written in MASM syntax, but are very easy to translate.

Very actively supported!

hth,

farrier

vid: Thx for the reply
I appreciate that any lines have to be drawn. I should have asked more clearly, are there any API's specifically for drawing spreadsheet tables\grids.

farrier: also, thx to you for your reply
I already have the custctl.zip downloaded and agree that it is very nice looking. What I'm attempting, is to do this in an MDI app. At the moment, between frame, client and child windows, I keep getting confused about who owns what I'm struggling at present with how to display buttons, lines and text in one MDI child window I can do it no bother in a single dlg window (as in the custctl.zip).