Netrix Shapes

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Add flowchart and shape drawing capabilities to your applications. Netrix Shapes is a sophisticated HTML driven drawing .NET WinForms component that can be used to create flow diagrams and workflow designs with advanced design elements. It provides advanced editing features like: inserting elements, accessing the Document Object Model (DOM), formatting text and comprehensive, object based, CSS support. It comes with basic HTML editing controls, like ColorPicker, FontPicker, and StyleEditor, which you can freely use independently of the basic control. With PropertyGrid support and a complete .NET like API this control provides you a .NET like interface and has many advantages over a Interop-DLL. It has a table cell width slider, custom glyphs and many other features.

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Netrix Shapes V1.6

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Netrix Shapes Elements - NetRix Shapes component comes with a full User Interface, PropertyGrid support and additional controls (ColorPicker, FontPicker, StyleEditor) in nine languages. The component supports MS Word table editing, Drag & Drop etc. In addition to the pre-defined shapes offered by Netrix Shapes, programmers can also create custom shapes using the shape element. Predefined shapes serve two purposes - they provide a more compact representation of a small number of very frequently encountered drawing operations (particularly rectangles and circles).

Netrix Shapes Drawing Capability - Shape elements represent shapes: rectangles, ovals, circles, triangles. Each shape is described as a path formed from a series of connected lines and curves. Netrix Shapes uses elements and attributes to describe the outline, fill, position and other properties of each shape. Cascading Style Sheet (CSS) styles are used to position the individual shape elements on the Web page, alongside the usual HTML elements such as P and IMG.

The control has a lot of new features not part of MSHTML:

• Complete rewritten .NET like API
• Simplified and improved interfaces
• Configurable context menu
• Advanced table editor, select columns, rows, cells, etc like MS Word does
• All element DHTML events are available as .NET events
• All elements are represented as native .NET objects for easy manipulation
• Full programmatic access to document and all elements, as well as their properties.
• Only 700 KB in size (PropertyGrid support and UI needs additonal 700 KB with ten language packs)
• Does not need interop assembly interop.mshtml.dll as part of your program
• Replaces file monikers internally to display embedded images as well
• Access of document through XmlDocument based interface
• Beautifies the code internally, no more terrible MSHTML code (Export as XHTML 1.0 or HTML 4.0)
• Full HTML 4.0 support, including editor for OPTGROUP
• Completely written in C#
• Toolbox (VS.NET Designer) support
• Sophisticated Insert Entity Control, just for free as part of the demo application (with colored browser version support advice bar)

Main Features - Netrix WYSIWYG Shapes control with these important features:

• VML Designer Support
• Complete table support (resizing, column width, join/split cells, multiple cell selection, ...)
• Drag and Drop support
• Drag and Drop from outside the control
• Grid and Snap to grid
• Ruler for easy assign of elements
• Glyphs , shows tag pictures inside the editor view
• Displays Grid in background
• Displays frames, let the user edit within a framed view
• Relative paths to images, no terrible monikers used
• Complete UI with propertygrid support out-of-the-box
  • Edit any element directly
  • HTML colors enabled color editor
  • Font editor with font preview
  • Style editor
  • Unit editor
  • Document property editor
  • Head element editing: META, LINK,
  • Localizable, 9 languages supported out-of-the-box
• Multiselection
• Absolute positioning, global and per element, like VS.NETs GridLayout
• Auto detect URL and E-Mail addresses, inserts anchors automatically
• Show zero borders around invisible tables and images
• TAB key support: Increase /Decrease indent level in lists (OL/UL+LI) with TAB/Shft-TAB and jump from cell to cell inside tables (if enabled programmatically)
• Wrap support: Select text and wrap any element around it Switch stylesheet on and off without changing HTML code
• Switch from designmode to preview without reloading
• Edit META, LINK, Title, and Script blocks with integrated editors
• Supports OPTGROUP with special editor
• Get element related lists: all parents, all children, current
• Handle events flexible: Mouse over element, Key, Mouse click, Selection
• Unlimited UNDO/REDO, packed for complex operations
• Full HTML 4.0 support - even for the "exotics"
• Full Printer Template Support

Table editing features supported

• Merge cells
• Split single cell
• Resize columns/rows with mouse
• Select multiple cells (even irregular shape) and assign properties
• Works well with nested tables (unlimited nesting levels)
• Advanced features customizable (on/off, highlight colors)