MShflexgrid set colwidth so you can see the whole cell content

Hi,

How can one set the width so you can see the entire text that is in it in a mshflexgrid (like you have autofit selection in excel)?

Thanx

Don't think there's an autosize in Flexgrid, but you 'can' do it with the following code:-

If flxGrid.ColWidth(iColNum) < myForm.Textwidth(sCellText) then
flxGrid.ColWidth(iColNum) = myForm.Textwidth(sCellText) + 75
End If




Where iColNum is the Column Number and sCellText is the text you are resizing the column to. Therefore, if column iColNum has sCellText in one of its rows, the Column will be resized to that sCellText fits.

I haven't run this code, so if it doesn't work, you'll have to tweak it, but you get the idea.

Regards,

Rob

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' Inputs:msFG (MSFlexGrid) = The name of the flex grid to resize ....
'MaxRowsToParse (integer) = The maximum number of rows (depth) of the table to scan for cell
'width (e.g. 50) .... MaxColWidth (Integer) = The maximum width of any given cell
'in twips (e.g. 5000)
'

public Sub AutosizeGridColumns(byref msFG as MSFlexGrid, byval MaxRowsToParse as Integer, byval MaxColWidth as Integer)
Dim I, J as Integer
Dim txtString as string
Dim intTempWidth, BiggestWidth as Integer
Dim intRows as Integer
Const intPadding = 150

With msFG
for I = 0 to .Cols - 1
' Loops through every column
.Col = I
' set the active colunm
intRows = .Rows
' set the number of rows
If intRows > MaxRowsToParse then intRows = MaxRowsToParse
' If there are more rows of data, reset
' intRows to the MaxRowsToParse constant
'
intBiggestWidth = 0
' Reset some values to 0
for J = 0 to intRows - 1
' check up to MaxRowsToParse # of rows a
' nd obtain
' the greatest width of the cell contents

.Row = J

txtString = .Text
intTempWidth = TextWidth(txtString) + intPadding
' The intPadding constant compensates for text insets
' You can adjust this value above as desired.

If intTempWidth > intBiggestWidth then intBiggestWidth = intTempWidth
' Reset intBiggestWidth to the intMaxCol
' Width value if necessary
next J
.ColWidth(I) = intBiggestWidth
next I
' Now check to see if the columns aren't
' as wide as the grid itself.
' If not, determine the difference and expand each column proportionately
' to fill the grid
intTempWidth = 0

for I = 0 to .Cols - 1
intTempWidth = intTempWidth + .ColWidth(I)
' Add up the width of all the columns
next I

If intTempWidth < msFG.Width then
' Compate the width of the columns to the width of the grid control
' and if necessary expand the columns.
intTempWidth = Fix((msFG.Width - intTempWidth) / .Cols)
' Determine the amount od width expansion needed by each column


for I = 0 to .Cols - 1
.ColWidth(I) = .ColWidth(I) + intTempWidth
' add the necessary width to each column
'

next I
End If
End With
End Sub




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