whatsnew.txt

DELPHI界面增强控件,非常好,里面有显示GIF的图片控件,更美观的下拉框控件,

- New : Datepicker and DBDatePicker inherit all TAdvEdit features such as focus, modified color, flat look and much more

+ Various smaller updates and fixes in components

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TMS Component pack v2.5 : update Jan 12, 2003
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Update : TAdvStringGrid v2.4.0.3
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- Improved printing with merged cells
- small improvements

Update : TPlanner v1.5.0.1 & TDBPlanner v1.7.0.1
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- Maintenance update

Update : TAdvEdit v2.4
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- New : Outlook style Lookup

Update : TAdvPanel v1.5
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- New : Caption & Panel Gradients 
- New : BorderShadow / BorderColor
- New : Buffered property added
- New : TAdvPanelStyler component
- New : Caption button position can be controlled
- Improved drawing
  
Update : TAdvPanelGroup v1.5
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- New : methods AddPanel, InsertPanel, RemovePanel, MovePanel
- New : DefaultPanel settings
- New : Columns support 
- Improved panel positioning

New : TGradientLabel v1.0
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- New : Label with gradient background or gradient line 

Update : TAdvDBLookupComboBox v1.1
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- New : Property DropSizeable added
- Improved code
  
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TMS Component pack v2.5 : update Dec 18, 2002
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Update : TAdvMemo v1.1
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- New : Basic syntax highlighting
- New : Gutter breakpoint, executable code and active sourcecode line display
- New : mousewheel support
- Improved : faster painting
- Improved : keyboard handling

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TMS Component pack v2.5 : update Dec 17, 2002
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Update : TPlanner v1.7 & TDBPlanner v1.5
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- New : Timeline mode
- New : Active cell indication in sidebar
- New : Completion display
- New : PositionZoom in horizontal mode
- New : Header popup & item popup handling
- New : Alarm times relative to event start or end time or both
- New : Support for virtual notes text
- New : Transparent overlapable background items
- New : Grid cellrectangle function added
- New : Design time property preference handling
- New : OnPlannerIsActive event added
- New : ItemSelection property added to control item selection methods and improved selection
- New : LineColor setting in PlannerHeader added
- New : Pen style selection for planner grid cells through OnPlannerBottomLine possible
- New : Display.CurrentPosFrom, Display.CurrentPosTo properties added
- New : Custom time interval display
- New : TDBHalfDayPeriodSource & TDBTimeLineSource 
- New : RefreshItem function added for single appointment reload in DBPlanner 
- New : Event OnItemsRead added in TDBxxxSource components
- Improved : Bitmap background drawing
- Improved : Additional AM/PM display capabilities in SideBar
- Improved : Sidebar display for better readability in high resolution time display
- Improved : Printing 
- Improved : HTML export
- Updated : over 50 pages printable PDF developers guide for registered users
- Lots of smaller improvements + optimizations ...

New : TDBAdvLookupCombo v1.0
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- Multi column DB lookup combobox
- Can perform type-ahead lookup on multiple columns
- Allows filtering of lookup listsource for limited selection lookups
- Allows sorting on columns in lookup dropdown
- Various settings for column display & dropdown behaviour
- Attached label with position control and optional display of listfield

Update : TAdvSpinEdit
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- Improved label positioning
- LabelAlwaysEnabled property added
- Signed property added

Update : TAdvMaskEdit, TDBAdvMaskEdit
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- Improved color handling

Update : TAdvCombo
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- Improved flat underline to match AdvEdit underline

Update : TAdvStringGrid v2.4.0.2
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- Improved SaveToHTML with Font export
- Improved edFloat and edFloatEditBtn decimal/thousand separator handling
- Improved SaveToXLSSheet
- SaveVirtCells public property added
- Improved HTML engine for lists and hidden text tags

Update : TCheckListEdit
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- OnClose event added
- Public property DroppedDown added

Update : THTMLStatusbar
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- Fix for vertical centered drawing in narrow status bar

Update : TWebUpdate   
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-  TWebUpdate UpdateCOnnect = wucNone added to disable any checks or trials to connect

Update : TColumnListBox
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- Improved default access to collection items
  
Update : TAdvListview
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- Pubic property StretchColumn added
- Improved header drawing


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TMS Component pack v2.4 : update Nov 9, 2002
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Update : TAdvStringGrid v2.4
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- AllColCount, AllRowCount properties added
- Improved XML export with & character
- Improved handling quoted text in CSV import/export
- ClearNormalRows, ClearNormalCols functions added
- Improved SizeWhileTyping
- OnEndRowSize triggered during SizeWhileTyping
- Improved indication on row/column moving
- SetColumnOrder, ResetColumnOrder methods added
- SaveColPositions, LoadColPositions methods added
- MouseActions.NoAutoRangeScroll property added
- RemoveAllNodes method added
- virtual method LoadCell added 
- OnGetFloatFormat event added
- Unicode display & editing support added
- Enhanced control for AutoNumberCol, AutoNumberRow
- CellControls[] property to add any control into a cell
- Autopositioning find dialog
- Improved find function with tests for empty strings & use of quotes
- Public property SaveWithHTML added
- Tab navigation direction control added
- Auto tab to next control on form after tabbing through complete grid
- PrintSelection method added
- Print preview of selection only capability added
- ProgressPie indicators added
- Combined drawing of images & sort indicator
- Index sort glyph properties added
- OnPrintCancel event added
- Readonly cell control for merged cells fixed - based on topleft cell settings
- Find & Replace dialog for grid added
- Disjunct column selection, column printing, column clipboard handling

Update : TAdvColumnGrid v2.4
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- FloatFormat property added in Columns
- Combined filtering & sorting from column header capability added

Update : TAdvMemo
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- New : Anchors property added

Update : HTMLHint
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- Improved multimonitor support

Update : TParamTreeview
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- New : WordWrap property 

Update : TWebPost
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- New : support to specify port number added

Update : TInspectorBar
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- Improved Wordwrap in psButtons style

Update : TAdvSpinEdit
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- Improved label positioning

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TMS Component pack v2.4 : update Oct 21, 2002
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Update : TWebUpdate v1.5
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- New : includes Web update wizard
- New : separately callable steps in update process
- New : HTTP keep alive setting
- New : auto compare with local file dates capability
- New : dynamic URL change per file
- New : OnSuccess event after download of all updated files
- New : Control to update only existing files and not install new files
- New : Option to keep CAB or Patch files after update
- New : List of file details for update
- New : total update download size property
- New : short update description field
- New : log to file capability
- Improved : CAB extraction 
- Improved : EULA dialog handling
- Improved : update registry only after success

Update : TAdvEdit v2.3
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- Improved ShowModified handling 
- Improved default key handling

Update : TWebData v1.0
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- Improved handling of multiple threaded instances


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TMS Component pack v2.4 : update Oct 7, 2002
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Update : TInspectorBars v1.1
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- New : Added support for nodes
- New : Variable item height
- New : visible and hidden items
- New : help panel
- New : HTML formatted text support in items
- New : Indent control per item
- New : Improved editing support
- New : several new events for edit handling
- New : auto scroll inside InspectorPanel
- New : always-open InspectorPanel style
- New : subproperty handling in RTTIInspectorBar
- New : full width hovering style
- New : various new properties for finetuning colors
- New : shows items in modified style when edited
- Numerous smaller improvements

New : TAdvMemo v1.0
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- Lightweight memo control with configurable syntax highlighting
- Highlighting for HTML, Javascript, Web, CSS and Pascal included
- Undo and redo functions
- Optional gutter
- Clipboard operations

New : TAdvShaper v1.0
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- Easy to use component that turns any form into the shape of a complex shaped bitmap 
  with very fast algorithm
- As simple as loading the bitmap and setting the mask color to turn a form into a 
  complex bitmap shape

Update : THotSpotImage v1.1
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- Added : supports zooming
- Added : allows to specify cursor over hotspots
- Added : allows to show hotspots clicked
- Improved : faster hotspot detection algorithm
- Improved : hotspot hover image drawing

Update : THTMLTreeView 
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- SelectionNFColor, SelectionNFFontColor added
- Right click select improvement 
- Anchor font size problem solved

Update : THTMLTreeList 
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- Column access improvement

Update : TParamTreeview
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- Anchor font size problem solved

Update : TAdvCombo 
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