How to Build a Screen Magnifier with TX Text Control
The linked newsletter article includes runnable source code demonstrating how to build a screen magnifier feature using TX Text Control. This magnification capability, commonly found in word processing applications, lets users zoom into specific document areas for closer viewing.
An interesting article (complete with runable source code) that shows you how to create a feature that is very popular in some well known word processing applications - the screen magnifier.
ActiveX
TX Text Control ActiveX is a royalty-free, fully programmable rich edit control that offers developers a broad range of word processing features in a reusable component. It provides comprehensive text formatting, powerful mail merge features and all word processing key concepts such as table support, images, headers and footers and page sections.
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