Released: Jul 12, 2021

Updates in 21.1.3

Fixes

ExpressBars Suite

• A toolbar pop-up menu, a sub-menu, or the Quick Customization Pop-up Menu is incorrectly positioned on the secondary monitor, whose DPI differs from the system DPI, if an application is built with the per-monitor DPI awareness (v2) option in its manifest.
• Opening a project that contains a bar manager whose UseSystemFont and Scaled properties are set to True and False resets the IDE's font to "System" in certain cases.
• Ribbon - An AV occurs on opening the standard...

Released: Jun 17, 2021

Updates in 21.1.2

Features

Ribbon and Toolbars

• Microsoft Active Accessibility (MSAA) Support - Every element now creates an MSAA tree node that exposes the UI structure and related information to accessibility applications. For instance, an active screen reader such as Microsoft Narrator can read these nodes when a user navigates between UI elements.

Layout Control

• Performance Enhancements
  • Optimized scroll operations make the UI more responsive, due to the calculations for scroll position being up to five times...

Released: May 26, 2021

Updates in 20.2.8

Fixes

ExpressBars Suite

• TcxBarEditItem - cxComboBox - The OnDrawItem event does not fire for an inactive editor whose DropDownListStyle property is set to lsFixedList.

ExpressEditors Library

• Find Panel - Compact Layout - The "Close" button has a different horizontal offset compared to the Filter Panel.
• TcxSpinButton - Assigning a control to the Associate property freezes the IDE if the spin button is located on TToolBar.
• TdxSaveFileDialog and TdxOpenFileDialog do not update the FileName, Files...

Released: Apr 27, 2021

Updates in 20.2.7

Fixes

ExpressBars Suite

• "Invalid class typecast" exception occurs when a form derived directly from TdxCustomRibbonForm is maximized or when the Ribbon Display Options menu is displayed if the form hosts a TdxRibbon control whose SupportNonClientDrawing property is True.

ExpressEditors Library

• A property editor for TPicture, TGraphic, and their descendants converts an image pasted from the clipboard to a 32-bit TdxSmartImage object and discards the image's transparency information...

Released: Mar 24, 2021

Updates in 20.2.6

Fixes

ExpressBars Suite

• Ribbon - Microsoft Office 2019 style - An AV occurs when applying fonts to UI elements in certain cases.
• Ribbon - Tab Area Search Toolbar - The toolbar produces memory leaks when invoked as a pop-up menu.
• TdxBarCustomPopupMenu descendants - The "TdxBarAccessibilityHelper.GetDefaultAccessibilityObject fails" exception occurs when a user presses the Alt key while a TdxBarWindowItem object has focus in a bar's pop-up menu.

ExpressDataController

• A filter item bound to an...

Released: Feb 25, 2021

Updates in 20.2.5

Features

ExpressEditors Library

• cxDateEdit - Added an option that switches the visibility of the time part in unfocused editors, that display values whose fractional part is equal to 0.

Fixes

ExpressBars Suite

• TdxBarPopupMenu and TdxRibbonPopupMenu - A popup menu uses all CPU core time when visible if the menu is not invoked by the toolbar or Ribbon UI.
• The TdxBarSubItem.BarSize property value is not scaled based on the current DPI.

ExpressDocking Library

• TdxHorizContainerDockSite and...

Released: Jan 21, 2021

Updates in 20.2.4

Fixes

ExpressBars Suite

• Ribbon Form - Ribbon control's groups and tabs have no separator if the Style property is set to a value other than rs2007 and rs2010 and the form's DisableAero property is set to False.
• TdxCustomStatusBar descendants do not scale an image specified by a text panel's PanelStyle.ImageIndex property based on the current DPI.

ExpressDocking Library

• A drag-and-drop operation can undock and position a dock panel so that its right or bottom edge is offscreen.

ExpressEditors...

Released: Nov 19, 2020

Updates in 20.2.2

Features

UX Enhancements

• Smooth Scrolling - This release adds smooth scrolling support to the following DevExpress VCL components:
  • Layout Control.
  • NavBar Control.
  • PDF Viewer.

Layout Control

• Performance Enhancements in Customization Mode
  • Selection is updated 25 times faster than in previous versions.
  • The optimized drag-and-drop operations make the UI more responsive and accelerate layout calculations by 30%.
• Miscellaneous Enhancements
  • The SizeOptions.MaxWidth and SizeOptions.MaxHeight properties...

Released: Nov 11, 2020

Updates in 20.1.7

Fixes

ExpressBars Suite

• Ribbon Form - Microsoft Office 2019 style - A form does not repaint its caption and the tab area before displaying a modal dialog that is invoked on the Backstage View's closure.
• TcxBarEditItem - The "List index out of bounds" exception occurs when changing the DPI value while the in-place editor is focused.

ExpressEditors Library

• Alert windows - Button hints are not displayed if an application's main window is inactive.
• TcxButton - The OnMouseEnter and OnMouseLeaver...

Released: Oct 7, 2020

Updates in 20.1.6

Fixes

ExpressBars Suite

• Ribbon Form - A form's bottom HitTest area is one pixel high if the form has a bottom-aligned status bar, the form shadow is hidden, and the DisableAero property is set to True.

ExpressEditors Library

• An AV occurs when focus returns to a gallery control whose item was deleted in a code block between BeginUpdate and EndUpdate calls.
• cxDateEdit - The OnEditValueChanged event can occur twice when an end-user changes the edit value via the editor's drop-down window if the...