VCL Controls - 2020 Roadmap - Your Vote Counts

Hello,

Better than new chart component, I need you concentrate on optimizing grid and Pivotgrid.

Better scaling of components and forms, PDF signing is  longly awaited.

I need Custom layout for data row (very useful), but not only for display but also for editing, with free positioning of other ALL cx editors (tcxbuttons, dblookups, comboboxes, listview) and also grids ( for alternative master-details)!

Another great features is ability to edit interactive forms in a PDF document; with this components I can replace my tax forms (images in background with editor over), but I need binding between pdf form fields and my Delphi datasets or Objects. Is very useful if component have events for manage when single pdf form fields are edited,or events for fill the document; so i can fill form fields with database value and update back the dataset fields when form fields are modified. Better is if I can manage properties of current selected form field (x,y, lenght, type, name, oldvalue, newvalue), so i can create on the fly a cxeditor for input current value over the pdf form field, so i can input data also using cxdblookups or other devexpress components, since the features of pdf editor are very poor.
(sorry for my bad english :-) )    

It would be good if the chart control lead to chart support in the spreadsheet control.

Alternatively, if the shape geometry matched the selection available in Excel, and allowed the spreadsheet control to support shapes.

Not covered in the survey: it would be great to enhance The grid to support multiple dimensions. Similar to a pivot grid:

One dataset (or more) represented down the page (as normal).  One dataset (or more) across the top and to the right of the first like the vertical grid. And a third dataset in the intersection of the two.  Used for representing many-to-many joins that include data in the joining table.

The central cells of the third dataset should be complex like the vertical grid, allowing more than one editor.

I have adapted the quantum grid to do something like this, but it is terribly slow when there are large numbers of columns.

Please add a new Chart Control and improve the Scheduler performance for real world heavy duty scenarios.

What about DevExpress Dashboard for VCL just like the .NET counterpart?

Thanks. 

I would love to have smart filter constants like those smart input constants you have for date editors.

So we could have a filter like

DueDate < Today 

SaleDate = LastMonth

And this Filter would be saved and never have to be edited.

As good as the chart control sounds, I think it would be more helpful to our users to keep investing in the PDF  (form and signing) and Rich Text editing for a little longer. And I like the idea of a dashboard.

The feature list for 2020 release also looks good!

Thanks!

Hello,

My 2 cents:

1. Chartview is sufficient for VCL

2. Don't waste any time on dasboards for VCL. Just make sure the VCL Databases are supported in .NET Dash. People can use that designer to create dashboards. We just use .NET dashes.

3. Please update the pivot grid with all the new features that have been done for the TcxGrid, like:

- Add the 'Custom' option like in the TcxGrid (T639143)

- Dropdown filter length: (S139672)

- date filtering,

- range selection,

- Runtime  Calculated Fields

- Conditional Formatting (T590128) Actually there are more than a dozen tickets with the same question.

- Excel inspired filtering (T804181)  

Hello,

My 2 cents:

1. Chartview is sufficient for VCL

2. Don't waste any time on dasboards for VCL. Just make sure the VCL Databases are supported in .NET Dash. People can use that designer to create dashboards. We just use .NET dashes.

3. Please update the pivot grid with all the new features that have been done for the TcxGrid, like:

- Add the 'Custom' option like in the TcxGrid (T639143)

- Dropdown filter length: (S139672)

- date filtering,

- range selection,

- Runtime  Calculated Fields

- Conditional Formatting (T590128) Actually there are more than a dozen tickets with the same question.

- Excel inspired filtering (T804181)  

Vote for :

- DevExpress Dashboard for VCL

- Non-visual component to process rich text documents

- PDF Editing Field

- Flyout Panel

1. Secondary axis on pivot grid chart

2. Dashboard 

I too vote for the VCL dashboard control like you have in .NET.  

I vote for;

Dashboard Control

PDF Editing and Signing

I vote for

1.dashboard for VCL

2.Grid or ListView for FMX

I Vote for New Chart Control.

The existing linechart is only suitable for economic uses. I need a Chart for scientific purposes.

1. I would love to see Firemonkey components from DevExpress.  Firemonkey is the solution for new applications.

2. I like the items you are working on for pdf support but would like to see signing capability.

3. Would like to see improvements to ExpressRichEditor including the ability to view / print text generated in ExpressRichEdit with ReportBuilder from Digital Metaphors.

4. Would like to see VCL Dashboard but not an absolute must.

The enhancements you are planning sound great.

Thanks

1. I would love to see Firemonkey components from DevExpress.  Firemonkey is the solution for new applications.

2. I like the items you are working on for pdf support but would like to see signing capability.

3. Would like to see improvements to ExpressRichEditor including the ability to view / print text generated in ExpressRichEdit with ReportBuilder from Digital Metaphors.

4. Would like to see VCL Dashboard but not an absolute must.

The enhancements you are planning sound great.

Thanks

I too would like you to concentrate on the enhancement of existing components and controls, especially the PDF viewer.

Nevertheless, I have the wish for a new control: A FLEXIBLE AND ADVANCED TEXT COMPARE control to show the differences between two texts or document files.

Pdf signing should be great extension.

Firemonkey

I support further improvements to PDF and Rich Text components.

Fire monkey is now looking essential

An advanced Charting Control is high on the priority list of my VCL development requirements.

The other alternative set of VCL enhancements would be nice to have, in particular the proposed ExpressPivotGrid Suite enhancements.

I also look forward to the promised new FireMonkey components - in particular the new grid component.

PDF signing please!

And if you're working on RichText editor, we really need HTML support that can be used in emails

No charts for me. The VCL Gantt Control is very important for me. Please also create printing capabilities in the Gantt Controll.

I vote for the FMX Grid, please.

+ PDF
- at least show if the file is signed, and by who

+ ExpressLibraryDisplay
- allow rich text formatted content in layout element captions

Dear Sir or Madam,

Since 8 years we requested performance improvements on master/detail unbound grids. Unless this issue is not solved, we won't invest in VCL anymore and stopped buying updates/subcriptions. For client/server applications with data and business layer this is a big problem and I remember some tickets in your system asking for the same! Very poor support!

Vote for :

• ExpressLibrary Enhancements + Better performance on LayoutControl (painting and customization mode).
• ExpressPivotGrid Suite Enhancements.
• ExpressPDFViewer Enhancements + PDF Signing.
  

Vote for:

• PDF Signing
• calculate fileds on PivotGrid, like QuantumGrid.
• Charts
  

Wow, that was a hard choice. I selected the chart view option in the end, but really my list of priorities would be:

ExpressLibrary Enhancements (particularly if DirectX rendering will improve performance of dxBars and large numbers of controls, but other items from your ExpressLibrary enhancements were also of interest)

New Chart control

Pivot Grid enhancements

The rest...

1. Would like to see improvements to ExpressRichEditor including the ability to view / print text generated in ExpressRichEdit with ReportBuilder from Digital Metaphors.

2. Would really like to see VCL Dashboard

Thanks again, for the improvements.

Thanks

Chart/Dashboard

ExpressRichEdit enhancements

Both Grid Enhancements

PDFViewer enhancements
 

The rest

Can we have generic methods on interfaces please.
Lambda expressions with type inference would also be mighty nice.

Hi,

we'd like to have QuantumGrid Suite Full FMX support as we're starting to R&D with Android on ChromeOS.

Don't you find the improvements you made for Delphi funny? I think you spend all your energy on Microsoft.

Why are there still no report designer and dashboards for Delphi?