Creating a Table of Contents (TOC) Using TX Text Control

This article explains how to create a table of contents in Windows Forms using the ribbon or programmatically. Creating a table of contents is required to organize large documents. For example if you write a thesis or paper with different chapters. It also gives a good overview of the structure of the document.

In TX Text Control, numbered lists are continued by default and need to be reset when required. There is more than one way if you want to restart numbered lists in a document. In this article, two different approaches will be outlined.

In an older sample, I showed how to implement a paste special functionality by accessing the clipboard directly using .NET functionality. In version 15.0, we implemented this functionality directly into the Paste method. A new implementation of this method allows you to pass a ClipboardFormat in the constructor. public void Paste(ClipboardFormat format); The available formats can be retrieved using the GetClipboardFormats method. This method returns an array of the available formats.…

With version 14.0, we introduced document section breaks that allow you to have different page formats in the same document. Version 15.0 implements page columns that can be adjusted section-wise. Sometimes, it is required to remove all section breaks from a document. This little code snippet shows you how to realize this using the enumerator of the section collection: private void RemoveAllSections() { TXTextControl.SectionCollection.SectionEnumerator sectionEnum =…