Are there any good free/cheap Delphi grid controls?

Question

I gave up on Delphi's DBGrid nearly a decade ago because it is simply no good. Since then, I have used Virtual TreeView which offers a lot of value but it has a few issues. Like the current state of development (e.g. None) and the fact that there is no good data-bound version. DevExpress's QuantumGrid is famous for the rich feature set but is really quite expensive. I reckon that its huge feature set is probably overkill for 95% of the general use cases for data-bound grid controls.

Does anyone know of a data-bound grid control that sports the following features:

1. Checkboxes for boolean fields. How obvious is that?
2. More effective way of dealing with editors, i.e. no need to click three or four times to get the pick list to show.
3. Has to be data-bound.
4. Modern-looking. Possibly using XP themes, but being skinnable is preferable.
5. Flexible owner-drawing. This is one of the great features of Virtual Treeview - you can literally replace any part of the cell drawing without upsetting the rest. Painting is done in a series of layers, and you opt to replace only the layers you need to modify.
6. Wrappable lines, or at least tooltips that pop up and show the content that has been truncated for display.

I seldom use editing within a grid control, so the editing features need not be fantastic.

Any good suggestions?

Answer 1

Virtual TreeView is very much alive and development is continuing. See its new home here: http://code.google.com/p/virtual-treeview/