Open Documents with an Offset
TX Text Control ActiveX supports saving documents with a byte offset to embed custom file headers. In TX Text Control .NET for Windows Forms, a FileStream with its Position property set to the header length can be passed to the Load method to open these offset-prefixed files.
TX Text Control ActiveX offers an Offset parameter to export a document with a specific file offset position. This offset can be used to save a custom file header that could contain additional information. Many customers have been asking how to open these documents with TX Text Control .NET for Windows Forms.
A very simple way to achieve this is to use a FileStream that can be directly opened using the Load method in TX Text Control .NET for Windows Forms. The following code snippet illustrates how to open a file with an offset of 30 bytes. The Position property of the FileStream can be used to set the current position in the stream. This position indicates where TX Text Control .NET for Windows Forms starts reading.
Dim newFile As New System.IO.FileInfo("c:ile.tx")
Dim FileStream As System.IO.FileStream = newFile.OpenRead()
FileStream.Position = 30
TextControl1.Load(FileStream, TXTextControl.BinaryStreamType.InternalFormat)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.
Related Posts
Create a Table of Contents in Windows Forms using C#
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.
Two Ways to Restart Numbered Lists in TX Text Control
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…
Paste Special: The Easy Way to Implement
TX Text Control version 15.0 introduced a ClipboardFormat parameter on the Paste method, enabling native Paste Special functionality. The GetClipboardFormats method returns all available clipboard…
How to Remove All Section Breaks in a Document?
TX Text Control 15.0 adds per-section page column support alongside existing section breaks. To remove all section breaks programmatically, iterate through SectionCollection using…
Batch Printing: How to Print Documents in One Print Job
Batch printing multiple documents as a single print job using TX Text Control relies on a .NET PrintDocument with PrintPage and QueryPageSettings events. Each page is rendered individually via the…