Thinking Out Loud

• Delphi
• ExpressBars
• ExpressQuantumGrid
• Ribbon

Delphi PDF Viewer - CTP (Coming Soon in v16.1)

We are days or hours (depending on who you ask) from publishing beta 1 of our upcoming VCL release and I thought I'd blog about a new VCL component that will ship as a CTP in v16.1. Frankly, a picture will tell the whole story so here it is... The PDF...

Ray Navasarkian (DevExpress)

8 June 2016

DevExpress VCL Rich Text Editor (now released in v15.1)

In our last VCL release cycle, we shipped the DevExpress VCL Rich Edit Control - our Microsoft Word inspired word processor - as a community tech preview. With our upcoming release, we'll officially launch our VCL Rich Text Editor and will incorporate...

Ray Navasarkian (DevExpress)

15 June 2015

VCL Rating Control (Coming soon in v15.1)

We are approaching the first beta of the newest release for our VCL customers and throughout the next week, Julian and I will describe some of the features/products we'll ship in v15.1. I'll start things off with a quick description of a new control we...

Ray Navasarkian (DevExpress)

10 June 2015

VCL Ribbon Control, Gallery and Skin Chooser

For all of our Delphi and C++ Builder customers - The following new features will ship as part of the ExpressBars Suite v7 Build 54. Microsoft Office 2010 style Ribbon UI We've implemented changes to the following Ribbon UI elements to emulate corresponding...

Ray Navasarkian (DevExpress)

14 December 2010

VCL - Chart View Enhancements (coming in the new version of the ExpressQuantumGrid)

As you all know, we're hard at work on the newest version of the ExpressQuantumGrid. Among the new features we'll introduce, are enhancements to the Grid's integrated Chart View. Transparency for Area diagrams (GDI+ is required for this feature) Empty...

Ray Navasarkian (DevExpress)

15 October 2010

VCL Grid and the Chart View v7

I recently blogged about the new Layout View in the DevExpress VCL Grid v7. This release will also introduce a number of changes to the VCL Grid Chart View including: Stacked Bars Chart Type Stacked Bars Displayed Side-by-Side...

Ray Navasarkian (DevExpress)

26 August 2010

VCL Org Chart - Minor Enhancements Coming

For those of you who are using the ExpressOrgChart Control for Delphi and C++Builder, the DevExpress VCL Team will be introducing a couple of new enhancements to the Org Chart Control in the next update. The changes are straightforward - Antialiasing...

Ray Navasarkian (DevExpress)

24 August 2010

VCL - Tabbed MDI (Multiple Document Interface)

In addition to the improvements in our VCL Ribbon Control to match some of the new capabilities found in Office 2010, we've extended a much requested feature to the ExpressBars Suite - Tabbed MDI Support. The following are a couple of early screenshots...

Ray Navasarkian (DevExpress)

16 August 2010

VCL Ribbon - ExpressBars and the Office 2010 Look and Feel plus Mini Toolbar

ExpressBars 7 will extend the look and feel options available within our Ribbon to include numerous Office 2010 styles including: VCL Ribbon - Aero Black VCL Ribbon - Aero Blue VCL Ribbon - Aero Silver Many of you have been requesting a mini-toolbar ...

Ray Navasarkian (DevExpress)

16 August 2010

VCL Grid v7 - Improved Excel Export

Another highly requested feature - improved Excel file export options for the ExpressQuantumGrid Suite. As you can see from the illustrations below, our new export options will allow you to ouptut image files contained within vcl grid columns to your...

Ray Navasarkian (DevExpress)

13 August 2010