Released: Jan 7, 2011

Updates in this release

Updates in V16

New Repeating Table Headers
Tables are often used to display large amounts of data, for example in a sales report. As the maximum length of a table on any one page can only be the maximum height of the page (minus margins and headers and footers), it is necessary to divide the table every time a page break occurs. As of TX Text Control ActiveX 16.0, any row in a table can be automatically added to the top of each table, right after a page break has occurred. This new feature ensures that tables always have a table header on every page, regardless of how long they may become. Table headers may contain any formatting, text or images that are available in any other cell of a table. Therefore, it is possible, for example, to add a corporate logo to the top left cell of a long table on every page, while the others header cells contain bold textual information.

New Spell Checker Interface
TX Text Control ActiveX 16.0 provides an entirely new generic spell checker interface that allows any 3rd partly spell checking component to be easily integrated into a TX Text Control based application. The TextControl.SpellCheckText event occurs, if the text of a document has been altered and the spelling of the new text needs to be checked. The event handler receives an argument, which contains data that is related to this event. TX Text Control ActiveX 16.0 underlines these misspelled words automatically. Misspelled words are added to the MisspelledWordPositions array, which can be used to manipulate the misspelled words in a document's text (remove, get item). This is particularly useful to create your own spell check dialog.

Extended User Interface
New buttons have been added to TXButtonBar, which can be used to:

• Grow and shrink the font sizes of all selected fonts.
• Increase or decrease the left indent of all the selected paragraphs.

Corresponding methods have been added to TXTextControl to provide this functionality from programming code:

• GrowFont
• ShrinkFont
• IncreaseIndent
• DecreaseIndent

Page Rendering Engine
The new page rendering engine allows a graphical representation of a page to be saved as a Visual Basic compatible Picture object. Exported pages can be converted into a number of other formats, such as JPG, GIF, PNG, BMP, WMF, EMF, TIFF or ICO. The layout of the exported page image is exactly the same as that of the printed document or PDF. A typical application for this new functionality would be to generate thumbnails of all the pages in a document or to display a page-orientated view of a document in a web browser or mobile device.