TextDynamic Release Notes

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9 February 2007 - V1.30.1

- SelectPrinter now works

- Custom Spellcheck now works without license

- Improvements to drag&drop and image handling

 

30 January 2007 - V1.30

* much improved manual - it now incorporates the developers API Reference

+ the .NET assemblies are now all "strongly named".

This makes a recompilation of the projects necessary.

+ the included DLLs and the OCX are now signed by WPCubed GmbH (Authenticode Technology)

+ you can create custom actions in the PCC file.

- better drag&drop handling

- improved PDF export (the CID font feature works better)

- possibility to embed binary data in the PDF file

+ new wpa action: DiaFontSelect - shows a dialog to change font name and style

+ TextAttr is now also published by interface IWPMemo

+ new method MoveToField

+ new method InputEmbeddedData - you can insert objects for PDF attachments (requires the optional PDF creation license)

+ new low level methods to move current paragraph (IWPParInterface.Select..)

+ new convert methods to calculate index values from text, font name and color values to be used with ParASet

+ new low level methods to loop all paragraphs in a document. (ActiveText.SelectFirstPar, SelectNextPar)

 

15 December 2006 - V1.29.3

- problem when using scroll wheel and pressing mouse button has been fixed.

+ automatic hyperlink detection now also works with email addresses

 

4 December 2006 - V1.29.2

- the internal paste from clipboard function was called twice for the CTRL+V key, this has been fixed.

* when saving HTML the embedded images will now be saved using a relative path

 

24 November 2006 - V1.29.1

+ improved method to extract metafiles: Memo.SavePageAsMetafile and Memo.GetPageAsMetafile

+ new property PageSizeList to install a list of page size definitions (see demo "ExtractMetafiles")

 

17 November 2006 - V1.29

* the internal interfaces (Memo, TextCursor) have been enhanced to be "dual". This improves the compatibility with development systems which use the OCX version of TextDynamic.

+ when saving HTML automatically embedded images will be written as files. See chapter "HTML loading and saving"

+ the spellcheck dialogs can be now localized suing the XML code in the PCC file

+ the interface MAPI can be used to create e-mails (HTML incl. attachments) and send them

+ the integrated MIME encode can be used to create e-mail data (use format string MIME)

- The PCC file has been updated. The german language strings are now complete. The save button on the toolbar uses the "DiaSaveAs" instead of "DiaSave" action.

* the demo "Simulated MDI" is now also available as VB.NET project

 

 

7 November 2006 - V1.28

+ exciting new label feature (creation, preview and print)

+ Memo.RTFDataAppendTo to create a large text from multiple copies of the current

+ Memo.SaveToVar - save the text to a variant (.NET: "object") - for better performance

+ Memo.LoadFromVar - load data from a variant

- fix - buttons for actions such as "bold" were not updated

 

31 October 2006 - V1.27.7

+ new Simulated MDI demo. Instead of using a MDI (multiple document interface) you can store multiple documents into one editor and switch between them using Memo.RTFDataAdd, -Select and -Delete.

+ Also an tabset (panelH2) can be used: clip0153

- API wpaSetFlags was not working, it has been fixed and a new manual entry has been added.

* improved CMH file (API reference)

 

28 October 2006 - V1.27.6

- event OnUpdateGUI was triggered too often due to an unexpected windows message

- Changing the column size of tables was switched off - it is now activated again

* please see new chapter "Create MDI Application (VB.NET)"

 

26 October 2006 - V1.27.5

* new shaded look and other designs for toolbars: clip0116 - reset with Command(9502,3,0)

+ Reporting interface is now complete

- backspace and cursor keys now work when pressed, not when released

* "ref bool" in TextCursor.FindText was never changed. Fixed.

* TextCursor.WordEnum now also operates correctly if the word was replaced in the event OnEnumParOrStyle

 

10 October 2006 - V1.26

+ OCX interface further improvements. It prints itself in a MS Access form!

+ new property SpellCtrl. The new interface IWPSpell allows it to load and select dictionaries for the integrated (optional) spellcheck engine.

+ new groups 13 and 14 for Memo.SetBProp. Now you can disable save and copy to clipboard operations. It is possible to allow copy&paste only within the application.

+ new properties: EventField and EventButton - for access in case your development system does not allow it to use the interface references passed to events.

 

15 September 2006 - V1.25

+ OCX interface completely redone for better operation in MS Access!

       + new property Readonly

       + new method SetLayoutMode

       * property Text now creates a VARIANT ARRAY OF BYTES - it will also accept the assignment of strings.

       - event OnInitControl works

       - event OnChangingText does work

       - property TextFormat now persistent

       + new editor for user define property

"InitScriptXML" - initialize the editor without a single line of code in VB6!

       * poperty DLLName now persistent

+ new method TextCursor.ScrollToCP - to show current line at top position

+ prepared new interface "IWPMapi" - this interface will allow in a later release (probably V1.30) allow the creation and the sending of mails. Currently this interface is not used!

+ advanced PDF engine: support for unicode (CIDFONTS) and PDF/A

+ popup menues can now be also specified in the PCC package file

- function TextCursor.FindText did not work reliably when boolean FromStart was not true

- security checks in interface case to avoid problems when commands were used while the editor was in loading state

- fix to avoid delay when typing first character

- fix to avoid ruler flickering when moving from record to record in MS Access

 

25 August 2006 - V1.22

+ .NET assembly now supports new API:

    public void SetBytes(int Editor, byte[] Text, string Format, bool Insert)

    public byte[] GetBytes(int Editor, bool OnlySelection, string Format)

 You can use it to load and save the contents into a bytes array instead of a unicode string.

+ Several improvements to editing and update of states in toolbar

 

15 August 2006 - V1.21

+ PDF creation is now always available (without license in unregistered mode).

 Please try it out using: wpdllInt1.wpaProcess("DiaExportToPDF","");

* improved internal exception handling

* improved word processing engine (mainly RTF reading part)

 

22 July 2006

* improved image support, load&save of PNG images

* some improvements to API

- fix problem in method LoadFromString - parameter "Insert" was ignored

 

6 June 2006

+ new: IWPMemo.GetNumberStyle to get interface to work with number styles

+ new interface IWPNumberStyle

 

19 May 2006

+ new: IWPMemo.GetMouseXY to locate current mouse position on page

+ new: IWPMemo.GetObjAtXY to locate an object at or near a certain position.

+ new: IWPMemo.GetPosXY locate the CPPosition at a certain x,y position

+ new: IWPMemo.GetXY get 15 value pairs (see CMH file!)

+ new: IWPTextObj.ShowHint - display hint at object

+ new: IWPTextObj.ObjType - read type of object

 

8 May 2006

+ easy creation of menu items (see C# demo)

- header/footer were not displayed

+ better handling of the Ctrl+Cursor keys

* better resizing of images

* larger dropdown arrows for toolbuttons

 

1. May 2006

+ new event OnUpdateGUI to make it easy to use own toolbar and menus

+ method wpaGetFlags to get the enabled, selected and hidden state of all "wpa" Actions as one array

+ facelift to ImagePack and TestApp

+ completed interfaces, fixed bugs

+ revised OCX (You will need to recreate it in your VB6 code)

 

15. March 2006

TextDynamic V0.95 - now also includes .NET support developed in C#. There are 2 DLLs, one for framework 1.1 and one for Framework 2.0. Also thanks to your comments and suggestions we were able to improve the programming interface and make it much easier to use. TextDynamic V0.95 has been tested with VB6, VS.NET 2005 and Delphi 2006.

 

The following functionality has been added:

+ PDF export

+ SpellCheck

+ Mailmerge

+ several interfaces to create text and tables under program control

 

14. February 2006

TextDynamic V0.90 - a powerful word processing DLL/OCX goes into beta test. At first for Visual Basic 6, later other development systems will be supported.

 


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