I have just purchased WPTools to replace Word in our application. We need a solution that is much more tightly bound into our system than we can achieve with Word. Also controlling word through COM is somewhat restrictive.
To help our users adjust, we want to make our solution as 'Word Like' as possible. We have used the excellent TMS Component Pack to create Office 2003 style toolbars and have now achieved a good match at the GUI level. We are now working through each of the functions to ensure that they work in a similar way to Word.
Our first problem is that the Font and FontSize combo boxes do not function as expected. If nothing is selected they show the specific attributes of the character immediately to the right of the cursor. This is OK if the character has a typeface and size attribute. However if no specific attributes have been set (ie the character defaults to the paragraph’s style values) then the boxes are left blank. This is different to the way Word works and a little quirky from a user’s perspective. We would like the combo boxes to always show the implied attributes for the character rather than the set attributes – ie the actual font and size which will be used to render the character.
Is this possible?