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What's New in X15

We regularly release major updates to our libraries, adding new features and responding to customer requests.

Protected documents

Document protection

Protected documents

Using TX Text Control .NET for WPF, documents can be protected by restricting the formatting and editing of content. Editable regions are exceptions within protected documents where specific users have access.

Contextual mini toolbar

Mini toolbar

Contextual mini toolbar

Inspired by Microsoft Word, the new mini toolbar coming in version X15 is a small version of the full ribbon toolbar providing the most common formatting features. The mini toolbar appears when text is selected or selected text is right-clicked.

Watermarks in headers and footers

Watermarks

Watermarks in headers and footers

Content in headers and footers can overlap main text. This is typically used in letterhead templates to place an address block in a text box on the side of the main text. This content is repeated on each page dependent of the header and footer section settings.

Pagination in tables

Table pagination

Pagination in tables

The pagination settings keep with next and page break before can now be used within tables to control page breaks within a table.

MS Word-compatible document protection and editable regions

MS Word-compatible document protection with editable regions. Using TX Text Control .NET for WPF X15, documents can be protected by restricting the formatting and editing of content. When protecting a document, it is possible to define whether the document is completely locked or formatting can be applied.

Editable regions are exceptions within protected documents that can be defined through a start position and a length or through a TXTextControl.Selection class. These regions can be nested and overlap.

Each TXTextControl.EditableRegion class is associated with a user through the TXTextControl.EditableRegion.UserName property. Only this user can edit the region when the document has been set to read-only.

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MS Word-compatible document protection and editable regions
Contextual mini toolbar

Contextual mini toolbar

Contextual mini toolbar for quick formatting tasks. Inspired by Microsoft Word, the new TXTextControl.WPF.MiniToolbar class is a small version of the full ribbon toolbar providing the most common formatting features. The mini toolbar appears when text is selected or selected text is right- or left-clicked.

This context-sensitive toolbar is very handy for quick formatting tasks without moving the mouse back and forth from the selection to the full ribbon bar.

When right-clicking a selection or an object such as a table or text frame, contextual features are displayed in the mini toolbar.

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Watermarks in headers and footers

Watermarks in headers and footers for letterhead templates. A highly requested feature was content in headers and footers that overlaps the main text. This is typically used in letterhead templates to place the address in a text box on the side of the main text. This content is repeated on each page and is therefore part of the header or footer text part.

Objects can be freely moved on the page and are placed behind the main text when headers and footers are deactivated. When a new page is inserted within the same section, the objects that belong to the header and footer are repeated on following pages as well.

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Watermarks in headers and footers
Pagination in tables

Pagination in tables

Pagination in tables with control over page breaks. The pagination settings keep with next and page break before can now be used in tables to control page breaks within a table. The first paragraph of a table row determines how to treat the complete row. If the first paragraph of a table row has the keep with next setting, the complete table row is positioned on the same page as the following table row.

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Windows automation

UI automation support for accessibility and external applications. UI automation is a programmatic interface to external applications that need programmatic access to the application. Primarily, UI automation is used for the Windows accessibility features such as screen readers and third-party applications like speech recognition software packages. The UI automation framework provides a streamlined way to discover UI components in an application.

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Windows automation
Select objects behind the text

Select objects behind the text

Select objects behind the text with the new TXTextControl.SelectObjects property. The new TXTextControl.WPF.TextControl.SelectObjects property controls the selection of objects which are located behind the text.

When this property is set to True, a mouse click selects the object in the background. Otherwise, when this property is set to False, text in front of the object is selected.

.NET framework update

.NET Framework update required for X15 and higher versions. Starting with X15 (25.0), our WPF products require .NET Framework 4.5 and higher.

To find out more about the supported Windows versions, please refer to this MSDN article:

.NET Framework System Requirements

New classes, properties, methods and events for WPF

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