What's new in TX Text Control 8.0

New Features

TX Text Control now supports bulleted and numbered lists. Several properties and methods have been added for this feature. The ListType property can be used to set the type of list, bulleted or numbered. The ListAttrDialog method provides a built-in dialog box that can be used to alter the attributes of bulleted and numbered lists. The BulletAttribute and NumberingAttribute properties are implemented to enable the attributes of bulleted and numbered lists to be changed from programming code.

TX Text Control is now shipped with a cabinet file which is needed when TX Text Control is used with Internet Explorer. The new chapter "Internet Explorer User's Guide" contains detailed information on how to integrate TX Text Control in Internet Explorer either as ActiveX Document created with Visual Basic or directly with HTML code. The setup program installs several examples that demontrate these new features. TX Text Control now supports the Apartment Threading Model and for downloading purposes it is marked as save for scripting and save for initialization.

Because some development enviroments do not support a printer object, the PrintDoc method has been implemented to enable printing of a complete TX Text Control document.

Several properties and methods have been added to extend the support of tables. The TableInsertLines method expands a table with additional table lines. The TableInsertColumn and TableDeleteColumn methods enable inserting and deleting table columns. The properties TableCanInsertLines, TableCanInsertColumn and TableCanDeleteColumn informs whether these operation can be performed at a certain input position. The new method SaveToMemoryBuffer has been implemented as a more flexible extension of the SaveToMemory method. While SaveToMemory only works with a one-dimensional byte-array, the new method can be used with strings as well as with all kinds of one-dimensional arrays. The LoadFromMemory method has also been extended to load data from all of these kinds of buffers. The new LockWindowUpdate property has been implemented to disable or reenable redrawing. This is useful if a programmer wants to avoid screen flickering when using more than one property one after the other.

The new properties CanCopy and CanPaste inform whether a part of a TX Text Control can be copied to the clipboard or whether the clipboard contains a format that can be pasted.

New and Extended Properties, Methods and Events