Re: RichView Package 1.8

From: Julian Ziersch (news_at_wptools.de)
Date: 10/30/03 

Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2003 13:03:36 +0100

Hi,

>Is this similar to WPTools?

WPTools uses a different approach to work with the text than
TRichView. WPTools sees the text as a chained list of paragraphs and
lines. Although this concept does not allow table nesting and the
cells offer less features it is a very clear approach from the
developer point of view (see below: CPChar) and has advantages for the
user which types the text. (consistent cursor movement)

I don't want to pick up the other posters (unusual) aggressive style
here, but I feel I need to list the features which are in WPTools:

Editing:
- WYSIWYG editing (this includes zooming, too)
- PageLayout view with true RTF header and footer
- Named header and footer which can be activated under program control
- table rows length can exceed the length of one page (since V4.11e)
- intelligent formatting options,
       e.g. widow, keep, keepn and orphan control
- possibility to add 'SpellAsYouGo'
- text macros (OnWordCompleEvent)
- watermarks (custom painted, buffered by the engine)
- ViewOptions: Show special chars ...
- Very word-like cursor control and selection
- hover effects and events for fields and other 'special' text
- Image resizing and drag&drop
- "Word like" copy&paste to avoid added space chars
- Copy from table, paste into table overrides the contents of
  a range of cells

RTL support
- true support for right to left reading, this includes the ability to
mix RTL and non-RTL text in one line. Numbers "12345" are always
non-RTL othwise you would read "54321".

Unicode
- can be loaded and saved in RTF format

Tabstop:
- left, right, center, decimal and default

Mailmerge
- insert text, RTF text and images
- use nested groups with the optional WPReporter
- use 'EditFields': Filled by mailmerge, read out under program
control. Set a minimum length using an event.

Undo
- unlimited undo/redo with the ability to add custom undo objects or
handle the undo list globally. (this is really unique)

HTML/CSS support
- Generic XML reader+writer (part of the shared library - gem #1)
- V4.20 comes with an all new CSS reader and writer which reads and
writes all CSS properties in a generic way. This is gem #2 in the
package
- The XMLFile unit loads and writes XHTML and uses the CSS class to
create the style properties. (renewed for V4.2)

TOC Support
- Create Table of contents with the special 'reference' text objects
- nestable bookmarks

GUI
- dialogs for many tasks
- gutter to show numbering level and other paragraph props
- Ruler to change indents and page margins
- easy to drop in WPToolBar to create an editor in 1 second
- action classes for all toolbar commands

CPChar
and the other functions as CPAttr, CPMoveNext let you move through
all characters and modify the character itself and the attribute by
direct pointer access. This makes it possible to change colors
extremely quick and is absolute uique to WPTools.

RTF Saving/Loading
- RTF Variables, string and binary (V4.2)
- save selection markers (also for table cells)

Preview:
- Preview Dialog with 2 page display
- TWPPreview component which shows pages in rows and columsn (like
thumbnails)

There are other features, such as the par numbering, paragraph styles
etc which I do not list here.

BTW.: When you order now You will get a free upgrade to version 5 when
it comes out next spring.

Regards,
Julian Ziersch
WPCubed GmbH
http://www.wpcubed.com/products/wptools/index.htm

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