[Lazarus] Control DBGrid row position

[Luca Olivetti]

El 16/11/17 a les 16:28, Luca Olivetti via Lazarus ha escrit:
> Is there a way to control the position of the selected row in a TDBGrid?
> 
> With a TStringGrid you can control it with TopRow, but TDBGrid has no 
> such property and I couldn't find a way to do what I want.
> 
> I understand that TopRow wouldn't make sense in a DBGrid, but I need the 
> same functionality: I have a huge amount of data (let's say 200000 
> records), so, in the AfterScroll event of the query, when I'm 
> approaching the end or the beginning of the dataset, I modify the query 
> to show the previous or next page of data[*] and then reposition (with 
> locate) to the same record where it was before changing the query.
> 
> It works well but the problem is that, when scrolling downward, the 
> selected row jumps every time I do this, i.e., usually it's the bottom 
> row, when I go down and reload the data this way, it jumps to the middle 
> of the dbgrid[**]. I'd like a way to keep it in the bottom row, so the 
> scrolling appears seamless.

An ugly workaround:

         moved:=Query.MoveBy(-50);
         Query.MoveBy(-moved);



> 
> It doesn't happen when scrolling upwards, probably because the dbgrid in 
> this case always shows the data on the first row.
> 
> Then it would also be nice to control the size and relative position of 
> the scrollbar, but that's another matter.

For the time being I just don't show the scrollbar.


Bye
-- 
Luca Olivetti
Wetron Automation Technology http://www.wetron.es/
Tel. +34 93 5883004 (Ext.3010)  Fax +34 93 5883007