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RichText (RTF) Control for Windows Forms - PDC 2008 Preview

First and foremost, my apologies to those customers who are not attending PDC and are feeling a bit frustrated that we are not previewing some of our upcoming releases on video but instead at PDC. A few of you have voiced your concern to me via Email...please rest assured that we will have videotaped coverage of activities at our booth and will be publishing them on the same day just as we did at TechEd this year. In addition, we will be producing numerous introductory videos and tutorials of DXperience v2008 vol 3 prior to product launch.

Ok, with that said - perhaps one of the most anticipated product releases from Devexpress is our RTF (Rich Text) control. Tony and his team have been busting their behinds and are pushing as hard as they can to deliver the very best product they possibly can.

Here are a few images of our PDC demo application...Enjoy

Rich Text Editor with the DevExpress Ribbon Control

Rich Text Editor - Ribbon Control

RTF Control Find and Replace

RTF Control Find and Replace

RTF Control with integrated Spell Checker Control

Rich Text Control with integrated Spell Checker

P.S. If you are going to be at PDC, dont forget to be at booth 501 at 7pm on Monday night...surprises await you....

Published Oct 25 2008, 07:39 PM by Developer Express - Ray
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Technorati tags: RTF, PDC 2008, XtraRichEdit

Comments

 

Nate Laff said:

YAY! Looks great!

Mail merge?????? Please? :)

October 25, 2008 11:16 PM
 

Hans Nieuwenhuis said:

Looks cool!

October 26, 2008 4:30 AM
 

xtra travel said:

can it be embeded in grid, treelist etc?

October 26, 2008 4:49 AM
 

Steven Rasmussen said:

This looks fantastic!!!  I noticed a 'Save As' button... would you care to expand on what formats will be supported?  .rtf, .pdf, .html, .docx?  Is the 'spell checking as you type' with the squigly red underline also supported?  Christmas is coming early this year!!

October 26, 2008 10:00 AM
 

James said:

If this has full spellcheck support, Table design support, and can read/write HTML as well as Outlook 2007 can or better, I'll kiss you!

Oh and if it doesn't use MSHTML even better!

October 27, 2008 3:23 PM
 

Shakil said:

Can multiple controls use a common toolbar.  (to save space on a form with more than one RTF controls ).

Can it edit databound HTML?

October 27, 2008 5:17 PM
 

Sigurd Decroos said:

Do I see 'justified' outlining as well? Something most RTF programs don't have. Superb!

HTML Is indeed a very interesting extra thing if it would be supported as well. I just hope XtraReports' RTF will support everything the RTF editor can...

October 27, 2008 9:31 PM
 

Greg said:

Hi, Looks cool.

To be able to load and save RTF, HTML WITH print features so you can print without dialog box popups would be the best thing!!!!

October 28, 2008 12:46 AM
 

Miles Young said:

Another vote here for Mailmerge!!

October 28, 2008 6:23 AM
 

Eduardo Quintana said:

Will the DXpression 8.3 beta be available for downloading by current subscribers?

When will the 8.3 version be released?

October 28, 2008 6:38 AM
 

Philip Jackson said:

Hi

Looks good but also needs table design support and row tabs to give it a competitive edge.

Can this store data into blob fields in tables?

Is it possible that this can be built into the TcxDBRichEdit?

October 28, 2008 8:04 AM
 

Ricardo Ildefonso said:

Hi, developers. Your control looks great!

I have an important issue, however: how to build tables?

October 28, 2008 8:20 AM
 

Giuglia E. Vaccarezza M. said:

Thank you

October 28, 2008 8:26 AM
 

Jeff Cone said:

I hope it supports numbered lists and bullets.

October 28, 2008 12:55 PM
 

Cinto Llach said:

How can I get a download to test it ?

October 28, 2008 2:33 PM
 

Keith Puckett said:

Mail Merge !!! Please!

October 28, 2008 3:58 PM
 

LaTesha said:

Another vote for mail merge also

October 29, 2008 10:24 AM
 

Tony (Developer Express) said:

Our mail merge feature is in the pipeline. I don't think it will be available in the first public beta.

October 29, 2008 12:59 PM
 

Tony (Developer Express) said:

Bullet lists, numbered lists and hierarchical lists are supported.

October 29, 2008 1:03 PM
 

Tony (Developer Express) said:

I don't think table support will be included in the first release, however you may use tabs to build table-like content. We have support for tabs with different alignment: left, right, center and decimal.

October 29, 2008 1:07 PM
 

Tony (Developer Express) said:

At this time, we're able to read/write .rtf and plain text files. We're going to implement loading and saving of .docx files and saving to html as well.

October 29, 2008 1:10 PM
 

Tony (Developer Express) said:

As for .pdf export, it also will be available via PrintingSystem facilities.

October 29, 2008 1:11 PM
 

Tony (Developer Express) said:

This RTF editor in XtraReports? It will be there of course. Moreover, it has been working inside XtraReports for at least 2 years :), but only for printing and exporting, not for editing.

October 29, 2008 1:15 PM
 

Roland Scheler said:

Is Header/Footer possible?

October 30, 2008 5:25 AM
 

Matt B said:

Will we have the ability to lock sections of the document so they can't be deleted or edited by the end-user?

Another useful feature is the ability to define a "field", which is enterable by the end-user, but they can't delete it.  This feature is useful not only for mail-merge but also for treating an RTF like a winforms input form.  

BTW, the above features are supported by TxTextControl. ;-)

October 30, 2008 10:09 AM
 

Alex said:

This is very welcomed!!!  Now, maybe it's already included, but otherwise the only thing I would add to this is syntax highlighting.

October 30, 2008 1:30 PM
 

Roland Scheler said:

So sorry,

RTF-Editor is not in 8.3. :-(

October 30, 2008 3:05 PM
 

richard vernick said:

Couldn't find the RTF Control in 8.3 b1.  What gives?

October 30, 2008 9:15 PM
 

jikee said:

i like it

October 30, 2008 10:03 PM
 

Abdurahman Almatrodi said:

Where is RichText in 8.3b?

November 2, 2008 1:08 PM
 

Keith Puckett said:

Since RTF Editor is not in 8.3.0 - Will it have Mail Merge when released in 8.3.1? PLEASE!!!!

November 3, 2008 1:08 PM
 

ChildPlus Software said:

Before I start begging for features for this control, I would like to say that I'm very excited about the control and regardless of whether you implement my pet features or not, this control will be enormously useful to us.

Now for the beggging...

Most useful to us would be some built-in mail-merge capabilities.  Something similar to the drag-drop model the XtraLayoutControl uses would be unbelievable.

Next, I want to second Matt B's request, "...the ability to define a 'field', which is enterable by the end-user".  This capability would solve myriad problems for us.

I'm a HUGE fan of DevExpress.  Your tools help us help our users in ways we couldn't dream of otherwise.  Thanks for introducing this RTF control.

December 1, 2008 1:04 PM
 

Keith Puckett said:

Any Information on Mail Merge For this Control???

Thank you!

December 17, 2008 12:07 PM
 

Chris M said:

Matt B said:

Will we have the ability to lock sections of the document so they can't be deleted or edited by the end-user?

"Matt B" suggested feature to lock sections would be really useful also to be able to auto scroll to the section...

Is there some where, where i can see a complete list of requested features for this control?

Thanks

April 8, 2009 6:52 AM
 

Keith Puckett said:

Any News on Mail Merge!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

April 20, 2009 6:40 PM

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