Mx controls are built upon many years of experience in developing and building user interfaces for the Windows family of operating systems. These controls are true no compromise controls, taking full advantage of the simplicity, flexibility and efficiency,
With a massive collection of advanced features, developers only need to specify few simple properties in order to create cutting edge user interface. Using this controls developer can produce outstanding applications with the minimum amount of effort and time spent.
Controls enable the user to build different types of user interfaces. It depends on this controls and their layout, how user friendly will the interface be. Controls are used for presenting and editing data. With the use of these controls every demand that user encounters must be fulfilled.
Controls are used for data presentation and data manipulation. Which control is used depends on the quantity of data to present, type of data to present, purpose of presented data and the style in which data is presented. Controls like Number, Text, Check, etc are used when a specific type of data is presented. Grid and GridEdit controls are used for large amount of data. Chart can be used for graphical presentation of the data. Button control can also be implemented in order to trigger all kinds of operations and actions. Controls can have their own navigation which can be implemented on the ribbon. This way the consistency of functionality is kept throughout the whole applications.
Mx controls are located in Toolbox in section Mx. Controls can be installed in the Toolbox with Mx.Management library. They can also be added manually by browsing and selecting items from Mx.Forms library.
Following Mx controls are available
Control | Description |
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AdvancedText | Control used for entering or selecting predefined data. |
Button | Triggers different types of actions and operations. |
ChartViewer | Parent control for a chart created with MxChart component. |
Check | Control used for displaying and editing Boolean values. |
Memo | Control used for displaying and editing large amount of string data. |
Layout | Specifies layout of other controls. |
ReportViewer | Parent control for a report created with MxReport component. |
Date | Control used for displaying and editing date time values. |
List | Displays data in a list. |
Number | Control used for displaying and editing numeric values. |
Pivot | Control used for displaying data in cross-tabulated form. |
GridEdit | Control used for displaying and editing data in a table. |
RecordEdit | Control used for editing records. |
Combo | Control used to display data in a drop down menu. |
Grid | Control used for displaying data in a table. |
Text | Control used for displaying and editing string data in a single line of text. |
Tree | Control used to display data with a tree list. |