GridParams Table

The GridParams table contains properties used for creating new CGrid and CGridView objects. This table is passed to the new grid objects using the new_grid, new_gridview functions and the CGrid:new and CGridView:new methods. The table below describes the properties of the GridParams table. Change them at grid creation time to set the property of the grid. They may also be overridden by various grid methods.

Property Name	Definition	Default Value
nCols	The number of grid columns.	10
nRows	The minimum number of grid rows. This value will be rounded up to a multiple of 256 rows. See the comments in the Example, below.	20
nSheets	The number of grid sheets. If omitted, 1 sheet is assumed.	1
nSH_Cols	The number of columns in the side heading area left of the grid rows.	1
nSH_Width	The width, in screen pixels, of each side heading column.	30
nTH_Rows	The number of rows in the top heading area above the grid columns.	1
nTH_Height	The height, in screen pixels, of each top heading row. This varies according to the height of the current grid font.	16
nDefColWidth	The default column width, in screen pixels.	100
nRowStretch	The stretch factor for the height of rows compared with the font height.	1.5
nTH_RowStretch	The stretch factor for the height of top heading rows compared with the font height.	1.5
nHorzAlign	The horizontal alignment of columns in the grid body.	1 (left)
nVertAlign	The vertical alignment of rows in the grid body.	2 (middle)
nSH_HorzAlign	The horizontal alignment of side heading columns.	1 (left)
nTH_VertAlign	The vertical alignment of top heading rows.	2 (middle)
sBodyFace	The color of the font in the regular grid.	"0.0.0"
sBodyBk	The background color of the font in the regular grid.	"255,255,255"
sHdgFace	The color of the font in the headings.	"0.0.0"
sHdgBk	The background color of the font in the headings.	"255,255,255"

Example

The script below sets the grid properties in a GridParams table and passes it to the script creation using new_gridview. This script creates a Mira grid window with 10 columns and 20 rows. Note that the property names must be spelled exactly as shown, including upper and lower case, and that a comma must be used after each table value. For reasons of internal efficiency, the specified number of rows is rounded up to a multiple of 256. For example, if you set nRows = 257, Mira creates a grid having 512 rows. It is not necessary to use all the extra rows.

GridParams =	-- define the properties
{
nCols = 10,
nRows = 20,
nSheets = 1,
nSH_Cols = 1,
nSH_Width = 24,
nTH_Rows = 1,
nTH_Height = 16,
}
G = new_gridview("My Grid Name", GridParams )	-- creates a new CGridView window
if G ~= nil then
Printf("cols = %d\n", G:GetNumCols())	Result: cols = 10
Printf("rows = %d\n", G:GetNumRows())	Result: rows = 256
end

Example

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