Technical Notes

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WPTools 5 supports Delphi 5,6,7 and 2005, 2006 (Win 32) and Delphi 2007. It also supports Borland C++ Builder 5 and 6 and C++Builder 2006.

 

Delphi 3 and 4 are not supported since the code requires modern language features, such as method overloading.

 

 

 

If you need a text component for Microsoft Access(TM), VisualFox PRO(TM), VisualBasic(TM) or .NET please use our new word processing component TextDynamic. Info: www.textdynamic.com.

 

For ASP and ASP.NET we have RTF2PDF. This component includes most of the prowerful interface methods TextDynamic has. Please check out our demo webserver at http://www.rtf-net.com/

 

 

The code uses pointers only in very few functions - mainly to optimize the performance. The reader and writer classes do not use static buffers.

 

The use of global variables has been limited. The most important ones are stored in the TWPToolsEnviroment object. By creating several instances of this class it is possible to create a threadsave application. (See demo ThreadSave)

 

WPTools 5 has been designed for modern PCs.

The Text rendering engine requires an up-to-date graphics adapter. We recommend a CPU with at least 500Mhz.

 

The Memory consumption has been highly optimized. It is equal or less than with WPTools 4.

 

The general text editing functionality require Windows 98 or later. Unicode support was tested with XP only - special word wrap rules for unicode text have not been implemented, such as Japanese rules. Support for RTL languages is limited (experimental).

 

For questions about WPTools 5 please use our web based forum:

 

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You will find the Release notes at the end of this manual.