[Lazarus] External/out-of-tree LCL widgetset

[Martin Schreiber]

On Tuesday 05 December 2017 13:01:43 Michael Schnell via Lazarus wrote:
> On 05.12.2017 12:16, Martin Schreiber via Lazarus wrote:
> > What is wrong with TDBGrid???
>
> As I quoted, Graeme claims it's slow.
>
I doubt it. At least the MSEgui DB-grids are not slow. DB-grids get the data 
from dataset field buffers for the visible rows only, for strings it means to 
fetch a UnicodeString by copying a pointer.
TDBWidgetGrid has columns where the placed TDB*EditWidget defines the colum 
data type and edit functionality of the column. Any edit widget can build a 
data column, also data-buttons, lookup-dropdown-widgets, images, sliders, 
dialog widgets...
TStringGrid on the other hand needs a local copy of the whole recordset which 
looks suboptimal and it has limited functionality without additional 
programming and endless StrTo*() and *ToStr() conversions.

Martin