What's New in X12
We regularly release major updates to our libraries, adding new features and responding to customer requests.
Office ribbon
New Office 2013 ribbon style
The ribbon bar has been styled with a modern, fresh new Office 2013 inspired icon pack with 700+ new icons.
WIC support
Windows Imaging Component (WIC) support
TX Text Control .NET for WPF now uses Windows Imaging Component (WIC), a Component Object Model based imaging codec framework for working with and processing digital images and image metadata.Ready-to-use ribbon tabs
Ready-to-use, customizable ribbon tabs for typical tasks. TX Text Control .NET for WPF X12 is shipped with ready-to-use ribbon tabs that are connected to a System.Windows.Controls.Ribbon.Ribbon object. The ribbon tabs are completely customizable and provide the typical tasks such as formatting text or inserting objects such as images, headers and footers, or barcodes.
These ribbon tabs are fully functional, localizable, and customizable. You can add and remove buttons, change functionality, and extend the ribbon bar with your own tabs and groups.
New WPF presentation engine
New WPF rendering engine with better integration and effects. The TX Text Control WPF controls are now inherited from the System.Windows.Controls.Control class instead of the System.Windows.FrameworkElement class. The control itself is now a sealed template of other WPF controls. This enables better integration in the WPF Framework, so that other framework elements can overlap a WPF.TextControl or a TX Text Control toolbar.
This new WPF rendering engine allows all types of transformations, adorners, and other typical WPF features such as effects like DropShadow and Blur effects.
Fresh new icon pack with 700+ icons
New Office 2013-style icon pack with 700+ fresh icons. The ribbon and button bars have been styled with a modern, fresh new Office 2013-inspired icon pack with 700+ new icons.
Touch and stylus event support
Support for touch and stylus events for WPF multi-touch. WPF touch events provide information about each finger on a touchscreen and its movement. Similar to mouse and keyboard events, touch events begin with Preview and are tunneled, while the direct Touch events are bubbled from the container to all children unless handled.
These new events help developers create multi-touch interfaces for Windows applications.
New button bar control
New WPF.ButtonBar control with customizable items and frame. The WPF.ButtonBar control is now inherited from the System.Windows.Controls.ToolBar class, containing default buttons and combo boxes as items, accessible through the Items property. These items can be sorted, deleted, or moved. Additional items can be added programmatically or using the design-time collection editor. Also, the WPF.ButtonBar can be used as part of a System.Windows.Controls.ToolBarTray.
The Items property replaces the ButtonPositions, ButtonOffsets, and ButtonSeparators properties. The button bar's frame can be designed with the inherited BorderBrush and BorderThickness properties.
New dialog boxes
New dialog boxes for hyperlinks, bookmarks, and navigation. TXTextControl for WPF provides additional built-in dialog boxes for inserting, editing, and deleting hyperlinks and bookmarks. The WPF.HyperlinkDialog class provides a dialog box to insert either a HypertextLink to an external location or a DocumentLink to a location in the same document.
The WPF.BookmarkDialog class provides a dialog box to insert a bookmark at the current text input position. If there is a bookmark at the current input position, the name of the bookmark is shown and can be edited. The WPF.DeleteBookmarksDialog class is a dialog box which shows all bookmarks in the current document. The user can jump to a bookmark or delete one or more bookmarks.
The WPF.GotoDialog dialog box can be used to move the current input position to a certain page, section, line, table, or bookmark. The new input position is shown with a new marker.
Windows Imaging Component (WIC) support
WIC support enables image export and insertion of TIF, GIF, DICOM, PSD. TX Text Control .NET for WPF X12 now uses Windows Imaging Component (WIC), a Component Object Model-based imaging codec framework for working with and processing digital images and image metadata. The Tagged Image Format (.TIF) and Graphics Interchange Format (.GIF) image formats can now additionally be used for exporting images.
This feature also enables the insertion of other formats such as DICOM (DCM, DC3, DIC) or Photoshop files (PSD) with a specific installed codec.
Merge field and block navigation
Navigate and manage merge fields and blocks easily in templates. TX Text Control .NET for WPF X12 introduces the Field Navigation Panel of TX Text Control Words - the template designer application for TX Text Control .NET for WPF X12. This panel allows easy navigation through all fields and merge blocks. Two different tab pages list all merge fields or all merge blocks and the contained fields within that block.
When selecting a merge block or merge field, the item is selected in the template. Fields can be renamed directly in the tree view. Additionally, selected fields in the panel can be removed directly by pressing {Delete} or using the button Remove.
Especially with complex templates including nested repeating blocks, the field navigation panel helps to keep an overview, even with complex master-detail templates.
Visual Studio 2015 compatibility
Complete support for Visual Studio 2015, including IntelliSense. As an active member of the Microsoft Visual Studio Industry Partner Program and as an official Visual Studio 2015 Sim-Ship Partner, we have committed to support new versions of Visual Studio and to make sure that our products work seamlessly with Visual Studio 2015.
We implemented and tested our setups, the toolbox support, help integration, IntelliSense support, and many more features with the final RC versions of Visual Studio 2015 to guarantee complete compatibility with our products.
