DevExpress VCL Subscription 18.2.2

Released: Dec 6, 2018

Aggiornamenti in 18.2.2

Funzionalità

  • Right-To-Left Support - The v18.2 release introduces Right-to-Left (RTL) support with the following DevExpress VCL components:
    • Grid Control
    • TreeList Control
    • Layout Control
    • Tile Control
    • Scheduler Control
    • NavBar Control
    • Tabbed MDI Manager
    • Page and Tab Controls
    • Skin Form
    • and the majority of the editors
  • Google Drive and Microsoft OneDrive Access - This release introduces a storage component that allows users to manage files and folders on Google Drive and Microsoft OneDrive cloud services. Accessing storage data requires that you obtain OAuth 2.0 credentials for your application and specify them via the authorization components introduced in v18.1.
  • Flow Chart - This release adds the following enhancements:
    • 70+ new shapes including basic, flowchart, arrow, decorative, and SDL diagram shapes.
    • New Ribbon-based designer with improved drag and drop support.
    • A* algorithm-based auto-connector routing.
    • Shape rotation capabilities.
  • Spreadsheet
    • Excel-inspired Formula Bar - This release introduces a Formula Bar component that you can integrate with the Spreadsheet Control to allow end-users to easily manage formulas in worksheets.
    • New Document-based Report Link - The new report link generates a report using the print area, print titles, page margins, and other print options specified in a document.
    • Improved Performance
      • More responsive UI - it's two times faster than in previous versions.
      • Array formulas are calculated 10 times faster when compared with previous versions.
      • Significantly improved performance when displaying merged cells whose text is wrapped into multiple lines, especially when it includes CJKV (Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese) characters or glyphs.
    • New Style Galleries for Generated UI - When generating a Ribbon/Toolbar UI for the VCL Spreadsheet Control, you can now add the Conditional Formatting Rule Style galleries, which are similar to those in Microsoft Excel. They display available icon sets and miniature previews of formatting applied to data bars and color scales. The following UI elements are now represented as galleries:
      • The Margins and Paper Sizes options on the Page Setup toolbar/ribbon group.
      • The formula categories and calculation options on the Formulas toolbar/ribbon group.
  • Rich Edit
    • New Style Galleries for Generated UI - When generating a Ribbon/Toolbar UI for the VCL Rich Edit Control, you can now create Style and Table Style galleries similar to the Quick Styles and Table Styles galleries in Microsoft Word.
  • TreeList and Vertical Grid
    • DevExpress continue to extend these controls with the filtering options available in the Grid control. This release adds filter dropdowns to tree list columns and vertical grid rows. As you might expect, the controls, columns, and rows offer numerous options to customize the display and behavior of the filter dropdowns.
  • Scheduler
    • Implemented multi-threaded event operations and recurrence calculations to improve performance when using storage components.
  • PDF Viewer
    • Support for semi-transparent text.
    • Display widget annotations and the content of interactive form fields.
    • Limited support for transparency groups.
    • Ability to display a replacement image or text while a page or its thumbnail is rendered.
  • Entity Mapping Framework (ORM) - This release extends the capabilities of the dataset component with field expressions, parameterized queries, sorting, grouping, support for master-detail relationships and TOP/SKIP query clauses, etc. In addition, it introduces the following components to improve design-time UX:
    • New Data Context Component - This new component allows you to expose entities contained in an entity model's package (stored as a BPL file or installed to the IDE) for dataset components at design time. You can share a data context between dataset components for unified access to entity metadata.
    • New Table Dataset Component - With this component, you can bind data-aware controls to a single entity. The component provides all of the features you've come to expect from a classic dataset, including a design-time field editor, index settings, and support for master-detail relationships.
  • Miscellaneous
    • The Layout, Page, and Tab controls can now display tab captions across multiple lines. Either add line breaks manually or specify a tab width to enable caption wrapping.
    • Optimized Package List - This release merges the packages containing the Layout Control, Editors, Data Controller, Page Control, and XP Theme Manager into the Cross-Platform Library to reduce the number of packages your IDE loads at startup and thereby improve its performance.
    • Icon Library - New SVG Images - This release extends the icon library with nearly 2,000 new SVG images.