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Contents

About Dundas Software

About Dundas Software Ltd.

Contacting Dundas Software Ltd.

How to order

Ordering Information

Product Information

Ultimate Grid Information and products

Demo1

Basic Grid

Demo2

Headings

Demo3

Text Types

Demo4

Graphics

Demo5

Large Grid

Demo6

Editing

Demo7

Drop List

Demo8

Drag and Drop

Demo9

Buttons and Check Boxes

Demo10

Custom

Demo11

Multiple Selection

Demo12

Highlighting

Demo13

Scrolling


About Dundas Software Ltd.

Dundas Software Ltd. has developed professional software since 1987.  From the development of specialized applications in areas such as Association Management, Medical Office Management, Medical Research, Benefits Management, and others,  we have built a solid history in software development.

During our history in software development, we have become acutely aware of both the shortcomings in the Windows development environment, and in the lack of good quality 3rd party tools.

Using our experience in information systems, we have developed a series of quality tools to aid the professional developer in the creation of advanced applications under the Windows development environment.

We feel, and our customers confirm, that our products provide tremendous power and ease-of-use.

For more information about Dundas Software Ltd.'s application development products, or other products that we market, please contact our sales department:

Phone:  (800) 463-1492	Email:  sales@dundas.com


Contacting Dundas Software Ltd.

Phone

Sales:	+1 (416) 239 - 7472
Toll Free:	1 (800) 463 - 1492
Fax:	+1 (416) 239 - 2183
Email

Sales:	sales@dundas.com
General:	dundas@dundas.com
Internet

WWW:	www.dundas.com
FTP:	ftp.dundas.com


Ordering Information

Prices:

Product	Price
Ultimate Grid 2.0 DLLs (includes both 16 and 32 bit)	$149.00
Ultimate Grid 2.0 DLLs with source	$349.00
Ultimate Border 2.0 DLLs (includes both 16 & 32 bit)	FREE
Ultimate Border 2.0 DLLs with source	$79.00
Search Party 1.2 DLLs (includes both 16 and 32 bit)	$79.00
Search Party 1.2 DLLs with source	$199.00
Payment Methods:

Credit Cards:	Visa ,  American Express

Money Order

Purchase Orders:	Major Corporations only, please call for approval

Shipping:

We can ship by the Internet, Compuserve, America On-line, or MSN.

To allow the developer to start using our products immediately, we provide electronic shipping to our customers.  The full package including printed documentation, diskettes, etc. is send either by courier or airmail.

Electronic shipping has worked extremely well for our customers, allowing us to satisfy their software requirements immediately, while keeping the cost of priority shipments to a minimum.

Contacting Dundas Software:

Telephone:	+1 (416) 239 - 7472

Internet:	sales@dundas.com

Toll Free:	1 (800) 463 - 1492

Fax:	+1 (416) 239 - 2183


Ultimate Grid Information and products

WWW site:    www.dundas.com

Get the latest information on the Ultimate Grid as well as other products available from Dundas Software via our Internet site! This site contains commercial software as well as shareware, freeware and demoware packages.

The system is available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, allowing you to download and view our products at your own pace.

Sales Line: (800) 463-1492  /  (416)239-7472

Contact our sales people directly and get the answers to all of your questions.


Basic Grid

This demo shows a basic multiplication table inside of the grid control.  Only the basic features are shown, such as headings and auto scroll. All other features have been disabled.

To add a grid like the one shown in this demo to a program is very simple.

Our class library was designed so the grid can be set-up quickly, allowing you to then add in extra features as you need them.

For Full Product Information contact Dundas Software Ltd.

Phone: 	1 (800) 463 - 1492     or     +1 (416) 239 - 7472

Email:	sales@dundas.com

WWW:	www.dundas.com


Headings

The grid supports both top and side headings. These headings are optional and have many features.  You may select to have only top heading, only side heading, both headings, or no headings at all.

Heading features:

1.	 Plain or button look styles

2.	Change foreground and background colors on a cell by cell basis

3.	Change the border height of the button look to give the grid a windows 3.1 or Windows 95 look

4.	Text can be left, right and center justified

5.	Bitmaps can also be used alone or with text. Full owner-draw capabilities are supported as well

6.	Extensive notification messages return every move that the user makes

7.	Top heading separators can be grabbed by the mouse for column width adjustment, plus full notifications of the adjustment progress are sent during and after a resize

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Phone: 	1 (800) 463 - 1492     or     +1 (416) 239 - 7472

Email:	sales@dundas.com

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Text Types

Text is the grid's basic display type. Text can be put in any cell and may be combined with special cell types such as check boxes, button, and bitmaps.

These are the options for displaying text:

1.	Text can be left, right or center justified on a cell by cell basis

2.	Foreground and background colors are also implemented cell by cell

3.	Easily add other text types such as the use of  multiple fonts and/or  multi-line text.

For Full Product Information contact Dundas Software Ltd.

Phone: 	1 (800) 463 - 1492     or     +1 (416) 239 - 7472

Email:	sales@dundas.com

WWW:	www.dundas.com


Graphics

The Ultimate Grid fully supports the use of in-cell graphics. Graphics can be put in the grid and it's headings.

There are two ways to put graphics into the grid. The simplest was is to use the grid's built-in bitmap features. Bitmaps can be used with other cell styles such as text, check boxes and buttons.

The most powerful way to show graphics is through the grid's easy to use Ownerdraw. The grid does most of the Ownerdraw work.  It sets up the device context, default colors and provides the rectangle to draw in. With Ownerdraw anything can be drawn in a cell giving the ultimate in flexibility.

Bitmap features:

1.	Bitmaps are automatically resized if they are too large to fit into a cell

2.	Combine bitmaps with check box, text and button styles

Owner-draw features:

1.	Draw anything in any cell

2.	Draw across multiple cells

3.	Create custom cell styles

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Phone: 	1 (800) 463 - 1492     or     +1 (416) 239 - 7472

Email:	sales@dundas.com

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Large Grid

This demo shows Ultimate Grid with over 2 Billion rows and 1 Thousand columns. Ultimate Grid has special abilities, allowing it to load only the data it needs to fill it's display.  In this manner, a huge table like this one with 2 TRILLION items, can be displayed quickly on the screen, and provides tremendous performance as well.

Ultimate Grid can display from 0 rows and 0 columns (display empty) up to 2,100,000,000 rows and 32,000 columns.

For Full Product Information contact Dundas Software Ltd.

Phone: 	1 (800) 463 - 1492     or     +1 (416) 239 - 7472

Email:	sales@dundas.com

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Editing

Ultimate Grid contains a built-in masked edit control, which makes data entry a snap.

This demo shows the use of the built-in edit control and shows the grid's ability to use not only it's built-in control, but other edit controls as well.  Some of the columns use the standard edit control built into windows, while other's use our high powered masked control.

Ultimate Grid was designed so that your favorite or special function edit control may be added. This allows specialized editing or custom validation to be added to the grid for data entry.

If a special edit control is used in the rest of your application, using the same control in the grid gives the application a consistent look and feel.

Ultimate Grid is designed to be flexible, not constraining.

For Full Product Information contact Dundas Software Ltd.

Phone: 	1 (800) 463 - 1492     or     +1 (416) 239 - 7472

Email:	sales@dundas.com

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Drop List

You have the ability to set up the droplist feature the way you want.  You may show or hide the droplist button, you can change the nature of the selection process, and may even set the number of mouse clicks necessary to highlight, or select an item form the list.

Additionally you may set the drop list cell to be read-only allowing only selections from the droplist, or you may set the cell as read/write, allowing the drop list to act only as a suggestion list but still allowing keyboard entry.

Droplist Features:

1.	Hide the droplist button until cell is selected, or show it always.

2.	Single click or double click selection modes.

3.	Adjust the number of items shown in the droplist's view.

If these features are not enough then easily over-ride the drop list's default behavior.

For Full Product Information contact Dundas Software Ltd.

Phone: 	1 (800) 463 - 1492     or     +1 (416) 239 - 7472

Email:	sales@dundas.com

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Drag and Drop

This section demonstrates Ultimate Grid's ability to drag items from one grid to another. It also shows the ability to swap item positions within a single grid.

The are two modes of dragging shown in this demo, copy or move.

The grid can act as a drag and drop server, client, or both. This will allows two or more grid's to easily exchange their data.

Drag and drop can start on a left click, right click, left click with the shift key down, left click with the right mouse button down, or just about any other way you can think of. The Ultimate Grid lets the programmer specify how and when a feature is activated.

For Full Product Information contact Dundas Software Ltd.

Phone: 	1 (800) 463 - 1492     or     +1 (416) 239 - 7472

Email:	sales@dundas.com

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Buttons and Check Boxes

Check boxes and button styles are also very useful and flexible. This demo shows some of the basic ways they are used.

Checkbox features:

1.	Combine checkboxes with other styles, such as text, bitmaps and buttons

2.	The way check boxes change state can be easily modified so you have complete control over the grid's look and feel.   For example, it could be set up to change state on a left click, right click, double click, left click with the CTRL key down, space bar, based on a formula, etc.

Button features:

1.	The button state can also be changed in an unlimited number of ways. Or it's state does not have to change at all

2.	The button height can be easily adjusted to give the grid a Windows 3.1 or Windows 95 look

3.	Combine buttons with other styles, such as text, bitmaps and checkboxes for interesting and unique effects

For Full Product Information contact Dundas Software Ltd.

Phone: 	1 (800) 463 - 1492     or     +1 (416) 239 - 7472

Email:	sales@dundas.com

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Custom

This demo shows a number of custom styles linked together for a unique effect.

The Ultimate Grid is very extensible allowing it's features to be changed and new ones added. These new features can be view only or fully interactive.

•	This demo shows a custom spin button which is fully interactive.

•	The progress bar is a view only custom style.

•	There are also two types of custom sliders.

•	Never be limited again. Just add new styles as they are needed.

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Phone: 	1 (800) 463 - 1492     or     +1 (416) 239 - 7472

Email:	sales@dundas.com

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Multiple Selection

Multiple selections are made easily with Ultimate Grid.  The Grid fully supports single cell selections and range selections.

If the built in multiple selection is not what you need, you can make up your own multiple selection method easily.  As with all our products, Ultimate Grid is amazingly flexible.

If you would rather not have multiple selection in your interface, you can easily disable the feature, it's up to you.

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Email:	sales@dundas.com

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Highlighting

The grid can highlight single cells or rows.

Single cell highlighting is great for spreadsheets and standard grids.

Row highlighting on the other hand makes multi-column list boxes look great, and is well suited to row oriented data, like table/database information.

Easily change the highlighting mode, color of the highlighting, or even turn it off.

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Phone: 	1 (800) 463 - 1492     or     +1 (416) 239 - 7472

Email:	sales@dundas.com

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Scrolling

The grid can have both horizontal or vertical scroll bars. It can have just one or no scroll bars at all.

The vertical scroll bar has two mode of operation.

The first mode is just a standard scrollbar, where the thumb shows the vertical position of the current view within the grid.

The second mode is called joystick mode. Joystick mode is very useful for when the number of rows in the datasource is unknown. The thumb stays in the middle of the scroll bar until the top or bottom of the datasource is reached. This allows the scroll bar to still be useful for scrolling up or down even when the size of the datasource is not known.

The horizontal scroll bar also has two modes.

In the standard mode when the thumb is moved to the far right, the right most column is brought all the way to the left of the grid's view. In the other mode the right column is only moved far enough so that it is in full view.  Each mode gives the grid a slightly different appearance, and as always, the choice is up to you.

For Full Product Information contact Dundas Software Ltd.

Phone: 	1 (800) 463 - 1492     or     +1 (416) 239 - 7472

Email:	sales@dundas.com

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