1. February 2006

WPTools Release 5.20.1 is now available for download.

It has an esspecially nice new feature: display a hint with page number in the scrollbar track event.

Also new: autoselection of merge fields

The paint routine was also optimized (OnPaint event!) and zooming works even better now.

23.2.2006 V5.0 RELEASE 20.1

  • (!) fix in RTF reader to work when correctly when Czech list sorting is active
  • new event: OnTestForLinkEvent to detect hyperlinks in plain text.
  • new: [Ctrl+DELETE] deletes word or white space to the right
  • CSS format now supports the MS Office elements: mso-style-parent and mso-style-parent
  • better detetection of symbol fonts
  • function IsSelected returns FALSE if text is selected but the length of the selection is 0 character
  • new demo: PrintOnBMP - for those who want to FAX pages
  • new demo: PlainTextLinks - use hyperlinks in plain text (without having <a> tags in text)
  • new procedure ScrollLinePos(par, posinpar) makes this text line first of screen (when text long enough)
  • paste of tables in RTF code works better
  • improved automatic field selection
  • better display of selection of paragraph breaks
  • also show manual pagebreak (dashed line) when property WordWrap=true

11.2.2006 V5.0 RELEASE 20.0

  • Display hint with "Page/ PageCount" when the text is scrolled. Can be switched off using

compiler symbol NOPAGENHINT or ViewOption 'wpDontDisplayScrollPageHint'

  • OnPaint event now allows flicker free painting
  • New EditOption: wpSelectCompleteFieldAlsoWhenInside - even wehn selection is done within a field

the complete field will be selected.

  • EditOption: wpDontSelectCompleteField - unless activated, always select a complete fields when

the selection contains part of a field

  • several fixes to RTF reader (i.e. \line\par in header)
  • fix for default tabstops in WordWrap mode
  • new ClipboardOption: wpcoDontCopyProtectedAttribute, dont copy the protected attr (RTF, WPTOOLS)
  • better support for the WordWrap mode (when page LayoutMode is selected)
  • support for context menu key. The event OnMouseDownWord will be triggered when the context menu key was

pressed. If you use the new EditOptionEx: wpDontTriggerPopupInContextEvent the old behavior is
established, the event will be then only triggered in OnMouseDown.

  • some fixes to improve stability
  • better display of embedded textobjects