DevExpress VCL Subscription Releases

Released: Dec 24, 2019

Updates in 19.2.3

Fixes

All VCL products

  • A bar manager displays drop-down trees of all its TdxBarTreeViewCombo items as top-level windows at design time
  • An error occurs on compiling the dxExpressionEditorHelper unit if the "Emit runtime type information" compiler option is enabled
  • Compile errors occur if the "Code inlining control" option is set to Auto in compiler settings

ExpressBars Suite

  • Ribbon - TdxBarLargeButton whose ButtonStyle property is set to bsDropDown is incorrectly painted if the rs2013, rs2016, or...

Released: Dec 4, 2019

Updates in 19.2.2

Features

Grid Control

  • New ORM-Based Table View (Beta) - The VCL Grid Control ships with a new Table View that leverages the ExpressEntityMapping Framework and its data management capabilities. Like Server Mode Views, this View executes data-aware operations on the database side, allowing you to display large datasets at blazing fast speeds. In addition, the new View supports data editing and Master-Detail layouts. v19.2 also includes a new Data Source component that binds the View directly to an...

Released: Nov 27, 2019

Updates in 19.1.7

Fixes

ExpressBars Suite

  • Ribbon - Customization Form - The "Reset all customizations" option does not restore the ribbon tab order after reopening the Form

ExpressDocking Library

  • Dock panels insufficiently increase their captions for a large font size specified by a dock panel or a docking manager

ExpressEditors Library

  • cxComboBox - The item selection state in a combo box dropdown window does not update according to the combo box edit value in certain cases, provided that the Properties...

Released: Oct 15, 2019

Updates in 19.1.6

Fixes

ExpressBars Suite

  • A custom color assigned to the bar manager's DockColor property at design time has no effect on dock controls at runtime
  • A submenu/popup menu whose ItemOptions.Size property is set to misLarge incorrectly paints icons for in-place editor bar items
  • Ribbon - Activating a tab of a minimized Ribbon control located on a secondary form disables the form's standard actions (TAction objects)

ExpressDocking Library

  • TdxContainerDockSite descendants created by a dock operation scale...

Released: Sep 11, 2019

Updates in 19.1.5

Fixes

ExpressBars Suite

  • Button icons flicker when a bar manager repaints their toolbars using any built-in look & feel style, except for the native style.
  • Ribbon - KeyTips double their font size if the system DPI value is not 96.
  • Ribbon - TdxCustomRibbonGalleryItem descendants - The gallery is incorrectly painted in response to a content modification that does not alter its size.
  • TcxBarEditItem - An AV occurs when the internal search engine shared by multiple OfficeSearchBox editors accesses...

Released: Aug 8, 2019

Updates in 19.1.4

Fixes

All VCL products

  • Certain product and compiled demos incorrectly restore their window size and position in Windows 8 or later after being docked to the left or right edge of the screen and minimized.
  • TdxRichEditControlCustomStylesGalleryAction and TdxSpreadSheetCustomGalleryAction descendants - A Ribbon gallery that is automatically generated for such an action object has no items if the gallery is not on the main application form.

ExpressBars Suite

  • An AV occurs on destroying a bar manager...

Released: Jul 8, 2019

Updates in 19.1.3

Fixes

ExpressBars Suite

  • A bar popup menu cannot be bound to another bar manager via the BarManager property.
  • Ribbon - Office 2016 style - The Tab Area Toolbar or Tab Area Search Toolbar is incorrectly scaled in an application built with a manifest recreated by the project "Enable High-DPI" option if the system DPI value is 144 and a certain skin is applied.
  • Ribbon - The CapitalizeTabCaptions property does not capitalize multi-byte characters.
  • TdxRibbonGalleryItem - All custom values of...

Released: Jun 18, 2019

Updates in 19.1.2

Features

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...

Released: Jun 4, 2019

Updates in 18.2.8

Fixes

ExpressBars Suite

  • TdxBarCustomPopupMenu and descendants - A bar's popup menu is always scaled according to the monitor DPI, even if the menu's invoker is programmatically scaled to a different target DPI.
  • TdxRibbonStatusBar - An AV occurs when an editor on the status bar's toolbar panel receives focus if the Ribbon property is set to nil.
  • TdxStatusBar - The font of an individual panel scales twice if the panel's PanelStyle.ParentFont property is set to True, and the system DPI does not...

Released: May 7, 2019

Updates in 18.2.7

Fixes

ExpressBars Suite

  • A large bar button's down arrow is incorrectly scaled at high DPI settings (more than 96).
  • A minimized secondary Ribbon form's title bar buttons do not work if the form's DisableAero property is set to False and the application is running under Windows 10 version 1809.
  • Cannot scale TcxStyleRepository styles when in data module.
  • Ribbon Form - On using skins, the form's borders are painted incorrectly in the opened Backstage View if the ribbon style is rs2013 or newer...