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Control Layer

In addition to our cell types, you can place your own controls on a sheet to provide more interaction with the user. Anything that can be derived from the Control class in the .NET framework can be hosted on a sheet in FarPoint Spread.

The child control is placed on a separate layer, the controls layer, that is separate from the data area where cells are and is separate from the drawing layer wear shapes and other graphical elements are.


The child control is one of any number of controls that can be placed on the sheet. For the sheet there is a child control container (similar to the shape container for all the shapes on the sheet). You can enumerate through each control and override any property of the interface of that control. You can set events and work with event handlers.






"As a long time user of your Spread COM product I have always been pleased with the flexibility and user friendly aspects of the control and it is great to see that your Windows Forms control continues this tradition!

Now that you are part of the same company which created ActiveReports (another product I have been a user of for a long time) I look forward to creating feature rich applications which will benefit my customers and my company. Excited to get started!"

Jeff Penchoff
Manager of Software Development
Asset Systems, Inc
http://www.assetsystems.com