A new website for WPCubed

A new Website for WPCubed … the support forum also moved – and was upgraded, to phpBB 3. Hopefully you like the new site and you can benefit from its new possibilities.

WPTools Development History

This is the file “history.txt” which is installed by WPTools 7 ******************************************* ************ WPTOOLS 7 History ************ ********** http://www.wpcubed.com ********* **** Copyright (C) 2014 J. Ziersch and **** **** WPCubed GmbH, Munich, Germany ******** ******************************************* * – = bug fix * + = new feature * * = changed, expanded feature ******************************************* * IMPORTANT: Please … Read more

Watermarks and External Pages

The preview capabilities of WPTools are exceptional. But what if you need to preview output from other components, such as report generators? Here the feature “EXTERNALPAGES” helps you out – it makes it possible to integrate other pages into the preview/editor pages (of any size) painted in an event. The text pages can be before … Read more

Syntax Highlighting

The component TWPSynEditHighlight has been created to use the SynEdit (http://SynEdit.SourceForge.net) syntax highlighter with WPTools. This makes it possible to show the syntax of about 30 different languages, including pascal, Java c++ and SQL! All you need to add the syntax highlighter units to the project. Then you can select a highlighter with procedure TWPSyntaxHigh.HighlighterNameChange(Sender: … Read more

Repeated header and footer rows

WPTools has the ability to repeat certain rows of a table at the start and the end of a page. These rows can be used to display sub totals if you use the calculation feature included in the WPReporter addon.The displayed numbers are usually updated at paint time, this means changes in the document (for … Read more

Table support

Tables with WPTools Merge cells horizontally Split cells horizontally Rows can span multiple pages Option: Disable page breaks in table rows (if they fit on one page) Option: Disable page breaks in tables (if they fit on one page) Different Borders for each cell Different Background color for each cell Multiple paragraphs in one cell … Read more

Text styles (stylesheet)

WPTools also offers superb support for paragraph styles such as ‘Headline1’ which are well accepted features of ‘big’ word processing programs. Because of the new code it is possible to set each attribute of a character or paragraph to be “undefined”. If an attribute is undefined it can be defined by an element which has … Read more

Different text attributes

WPTools supports many different text attributes font name, size, character set character styles, such as bold, italic, underlined underline color and modes left, right, center and justify alignment shading text and text background colors indents: left, right and first line tab stops: left, right, centered and decimal. new: fill mode subscripts and superscripts additional spacing … Read more

Section Support in WPTools

Sections make it possible to use many different header and footer texts and different page sizes in one document. The editor will display an arrow in the left margin where a new section starts. The following code can be used to create a new section: var sectionprops : TWPRTFSectionProps; begin // New Page WPRichText1.InputString(#12); // … Read more

Header and Footer texts in WPTools

Not only does WPTools support printing of header and footer texts, these texts can also be edited in page layout mode. WYSIWYG editing of headers and footers in page layout mode. Exclusive editing of a header or footer text in normal layout mode. Different headers and footers for the first page or for odd and … Read more