DevExpress VCL Subscription 19.1.2

Right-To-Left Support

• This release adds Right-to-Left (RTL) support to the following DevExpress VCL components:
  • Toolbars, Menus, and Ribbon Control
  • Pivot Grid Control
  • Vertical Grid Control
  • Wizard Control

Filtering UI

• Excel-inspired Filtering - v19.1 introduces new Microsoft Excel-inspired column/row filter dropdowns for the Grid, TreeList, and Vertical Grid controls. New filter dropdowns provide two tabs:
  • The first tab allows users to select from among all available cell values.
  • The second tab allows users to create a filter expression using filter operators (Equals, Between, Contains, etc.)
• Use the dxDefaultFilterPopupWindowMode global constant in the source code to make the new filtering UI active for all Grid, TreeList, and Vertical Grid controls.
• Filter Box Support - Much like the VCL Grid Control, the TreeList and Vertical Grid controls now provide the Filter Box to allow end-users to customize, temporarily disable, and reapply recently used filter criteria.

Enhanced SVG Rendering

• SVG images are rendered two times faster when compared to previous versions.
• Image data is loaded and parsed about ten times faster when compared to previous versions.
• Introduced a dxSVGRenderQuality global variable to let you choose a preferable quality-to-performance ratio.

Ribbon and Toolbars

• Microsoft Office 2019 Style - The DevExpress VCL Ribbon Control now ships with a Ribbon style that replicates the look & feel of the latest Microsoft Office version. This style includes new tab styles and animation effects. Also added IDE templates to make it easy to create Office 2019 Ribbon style applications and Ribbon forms from scratch.
• Performance Enhancements - The optimized painting mechanism makes the Ribbon/Toolbar UI more responsive - it's two to three times faster than in previous versions.
• Miscellaneous Enhancements
  • Ribbon Backstage View galleries can now display KeyTips for their elements: groups, items, and item pins.
  • The editor located on the Search Toolbar can optionally display a command's location. It includes the names of the tab, group, and submenu items an end-user has to click to navigate to the command. Also added an option that enables recursive search for commands in submenus.
  • Two new events (OnBeforeMerge and OnAfterMerge) allow you to respond to toolbar merge operations.

Flow Chart

• 30+ new shapes and the ability to load custom shapes from an XML file or stream.
• 20+ new connection arrow styles and 5 predefined connection arrow sizes.
• Ability to apply the layered (Sugiyama) algorithm-based layout. This algorithm minimizes the number of connector crossings and evenly spreads out the shapes.
• Shape transformation support. End-users can transform shapes by dragging yellow handles.
• Ability to custom paint any advanced shape.
• Flow Chart designer: Alignment guides and size arrows make it easier to rearrange and resize chart elements.
• Flow Chart designer: A new pane for quick access to chart element properties.

Skins Library

• New SVG Microsoft Office 2019 Colorful Skin - This release ships with a new vector-based skin and associated color palettes - Office 2019 Colorful.

Spreadsheet

• API Enhancements
  • Evaluate any formula expressions, not only those stored in a document (the EvaluateExpression function).
  • Pass cell ranges in the A1 reference style as string parameters to any cell management method.
  • Track visibility changes of cell comments and prevent their display (the OnCommentShow and OnCommentHide events).
  • Quickly reset a cell, row, or column to its default style (the IsDefault property).
  • Read/write the rich text formatted content directly from/to a cell (the GetAsRTF and SetAsRTF functions).

Pivot Grid

• A new field option automatically expands group values and keeps them expanded (the AlwaysExpanded property).
• You can now apply the Min and Max summary functions to date-time or string data fields.
• A new event (OnGetCellHint) allows you to customize hints displayed for data cells, field values, and field headers, or suppress them.
• The HitTest property now provides a flag to identify total cells (the HitAtTotalCell property).

PDF Viewer

• Attachments - This release extends the Navigation pane with a panel that allows end-users to open and/or save attachments embedded in a document.
• Text Markup Annotations - The PDF Viewer now displays markup annotations based on embedded appearance streams.

Layout Control

• End-users can now collapse/expand splitter items to temporarily hide a part of a layout with a mouse click or drag and drop.
• Splitter items now provide an event (OnCanResize) that allows you to dynamically control size operations.

Design-Time Enhancements

• This release replaces all the Ribbon-based application/form IDE template items with two items that allow you to select a Ribbon style for a new application/form and preview it instantly.