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Updates in 15.2.6
New Features/Updates:
- ExpressSpreadSheet - Provide a command (a TAction object) that invokes the "Conditional Formatting Rules Manager" dialog.
- ExpressEditors Library - Add the capability to use the classic-style dropdown calendar as the default calendar style for date editors.
- ExpressLibrary Localizer Editor - Enable record filtering using the Find Panel and add the capability to copy a grid cell value to the clipboard.
Resolved Issues:
ExpressBars Suite
- Ribbon - Customization Form - An AV occurs on selecting the "Custom Tabs and Groups" item in the "Choose commands from" list if any custom group contains a custom subitem.
- Ribbon Form - An AV occurs on clicking the Windows taskbar icon to restore back the form's window that was minimized by pressing the Windows+D key combination while the form was inactive and a hint was displayed for any of its window buttons.
- Ribbon Form - Office 2013 or 2016 style - The form's border size is 4 pixels less than in Office applications if a built-in color scheme is applied.
- TdxRibbonColorGalleryItem - The Ribbon Popup Menu can be invoked for the bar item's drop-down menu.
ExpressDocking Library
- Re-opening a project file suppresses the display of floating dock panels defined in secondary forms.
ExpressLayout Control
- A layout control located on an inherited form creates layout elements without a name at design time.
- Customization Form - The '<empty>' string displayed for layout elements whose caption or name is assigned an empty string cannot be localized.
- Import - TcxPageControl, TPageControl, or their descendant selected in the Import form's drop-down list are not imported to the layout control.
- The height of tabbed layout groups whose TabbedOptions.Options option set includes pcoTopToBottomText is incorrect.
ExpressNavBar
- The NavBar control's OptionsBehavior.Common.DragDropFlags property setting applies to the NavBar designer and Customization Form in error.
ExpressPrinting System
- Captions of TcxCustomGroupBox and descendants are incorrectly printed if a report link's ScaleFonts property is set to False.
- Export to PDF - Metafile images are incorrectly clipped.
ExpressQuantumGrid Suite
- An AV occurs on switching the cursor while the View is locked for updates by the BeginUpdate method call in certain cases.
- Chart View - The Pen.Color property setting is not initialized for a canvas used to paint pie slices.
- Layout View - Clicking a card/group's expand button or a layout group's tab does nothing.
- Layout View - Data item captions are not painted in certain cases.
- Master-Detail - The View whose OptionsBehavior.FixedGroups property is set to True misplaces expand buttons in master rows that do not fully display their detail rows.
- The grid control is not disabled during the export operation
ExpressQuantumTreeList Suite
- An AV occurs on exporting a tree list whose indent cells contain images.
ExpressRichEdit Control
- An AV occurs on loading certain DOCX files that contain two or more references to an image in various document parts.
- The "List index out of bounds" exception occurs if selection that includes merged table cells is adjacent to another merged cell.
ExpressScheduler Suite
- Gantt View - Changes made to the Finish column cell value modify the Start column cell value in the Tree Browser.
ExpressSkins Library
- Form - Minimized MDI child forms cannot be restored down using the window's context menu or window buttons if certain skins are applied.
ExpressSpreadSheet
- A multi-line formula returns #NAME? as its result.
- A worksheet's Options.ActualZeroValues property value doesn't control the visibility of zero values that are not function results in cells.
- A worksheet's Options.ZeroValues property value is incorrectly loaded from an XLS file.
- A worksheet's SortByColumnValues or SortByRowValues procedure incorrectly sorts rows/columns if more than one column/row is passed as the procedure's parameters.
- An AV occurs on double-clicking the frame painted around a floating container.
- An AV occurs on opening an XLS file which contains a reference to a function introduced in modern Excel versions.
- Import from CSV - Date-time values are parsed using the English (United States) format rather than the system's format.
- Removing selected columns or rows doesn't remove the merged cells that are partially included in the selected area.
- The "Find and Replace" dialog displaces the editors located on the Find page at high DPI settings (more than 96).
- The right or bottom border is not painted in a merged cell that is more than 1 pixel wide or 1 pixel high if the border style is set to any other than the default one.
- The spreadsheet control cannot be compiled if the "Minimum enum size" compiler option is set to a value other than Byte.
- The text containing quotation marks is incorrectly pasted from the clipboard.
- The unary double minus operator is not supported.
- Typing an IME composition moves the caret to the previous character/symbol.
ExpressTile Control
- Decreasing a tile group's font size doesn't reduce the group's caption height.
ExpressVerticalGrid Suite
- The vertical grid used in an ActiveX server application doesn't display cell hints.
ExpressEditors Library
- In-place cxRichEdit - Typing an IME composition doesn't invoke a composition window within the in-place editor.
- TcxDBFilterControl - The FilterOptions.DateTimeFormat property setting is ignored by date-time filter items when building filter criteria for the FilterText property if the DataSet property is unassigned.
- TcxShellTreeView - Pressing the Del key while a shell item's caption is customized attempts to remove this shell item rather than clearing the text selected in its caption.
ExpressLibrary
- Raising an exception while modifying a scrollbar's thumb position causes continuous scrolling.
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