ExpressNavigationPack

Add Ribbon, toolbar, layout and skinning functionality to your VCL applications.

Published by DevExpress
Distributed by ComponentSource since 2001

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ExpressNavigationPack Releases

Released: Sep 10, 2020

Updates in 20.1.5

Fixes

ExpressNavBar

  • Drop indicators are incorrectly painted in a group that contains hidden items.

ExpressSkins Library

  • The "Fatal: Unable to open file 'VCL.VIRTUALIMAGELIST.O'" error occurs when compiling Embarcadero C++Builder skin package files for a 64-bit application.

ExpressEditors Library

  • An AV occurs after an image list used as a source for navigator button icons is destroyed.
  • dxTokenEdit - Editor content becomes invisible after a scroll operation in a container control.

Released: Aug 5, 2020

Updates in 20.1.4

Fixes

ExpressBars Suite

  • The "Invalid operation in GDI+ (Code: 11)" exception can occur on drawing an extra pane item of a TdxBarApplicationMenu component if its ExtraPane.AllowPinItems property is set to False.

ExpressEditors Library

  • A TcxBarEditItem object discards entered text when focus moves from it to another editor within a TdxBarContainerItem container even if the TdxBarManager.AlwaysSaveText property is set to True.
  • cxTextEdit - It is impossible to change an editor's value...

Released: Jul 2, 2020

Updates in 20.1.3

Fixes

All VCL products

  • The dxCryptoAPI unit does not include linker directives for the crypt32 and cryptui 64-bit libraries.

ExpressBars Suite

  • TdxCustomRibbonGalleryItem and descendants - The status bar does not display gallery item hints.
  • TdxTabbedMDImanager - The "List index out of bounds" exception occurs on pressing the Close button of an MDI child form's tab while the button's hint is visible.

ExpressDocking Library

  • A dock site on the main MDI form does not automatically hide a dock panel...

Released: Jun 4, 2020

Updates in 20.1.2

Features

  • Skins Library
    • New Microsoft Office 2019 Skins - This release introduces three new Microsoft Office 2019 vector skins - White, Dark Gray, and Black.
    • New Basic Skin - v20.1 includes the Basic skin first introduced in the WinForms product line. This skin ships with six color palettes.
  • Layout Control
    • A layout group can now display a check box next to its caption. The check box toggles the enabled state of child elements in the group. You can handle a new event to override the default...

Released: Apr 29, 2020

Updates in 19.2.7

Fixes

ExpressBars Suite

  • Ribbon - Office 2019 style - A tab group displays content without animation.

ExpressEditors Library

  • cxDateEdit - The "Could not convert variant of type (UnicodeString) into type (Date)" error occurs on saving a date selected from the drop-down calendar if the Properties.EditFormat property value includes ddd or dddd.
  • How to get selected Item in OnClickCheck event when IncrementalFiltering = True.

ExpressLayout Control

  • Cannot move layout items from one layout to another.

Released: Mar 25, 2020

Updates in 19.2.6

Fixes

ExpressBars Suite

  • A toolbar-based context menu is scaled using the system DPI when displayed on a monitor whose DPI value is 96.

ExpressDocking Library

  • A dock panel's OnDocking event and a dock site's OnCanDocking event do not fire when the docking manager whose DockStyle property is set to dsVS2005 enables docking hints.

ExpressEditors Library

  • cxExtLookupComboBox - An AV occurs on closing a drop-down window by a keystroke if the mouse pointer hovers over the embedded grid's navigator...

Released: Feb 26, 2020

Updates in 19.2.5

Fixes

ExpressBars Suite

  • Ribbon - Office 2019 style - Bar buttons (TdxBarButton and TdxBarLargeButton) do not visualize their selected state if they reside on the Quick Access Toolbar and the Black, Colorful, or DarkGray color scheme is applied.
  • Ribbon - Skinned TdxRibbonGalleryItem uses the same color to paint captions and descriptions in normal and disabled items.
  • Ribbon - Tab Area Toolbar and Tab Area Search Toolbar - A hot-tracked bar button/subitem blends its caption with the background if...

Released: Jan 22, 2020

Updates in 19.2.4

Fixes

ExpressBars Suite

  • An AV occurs when changing a bar popup menu's UI scale factor if the menu is not associated with a bar manager component.
  • Documentation - Code examples mention the TdxBarButton.Create constructor in the "How to Add Custom Items to a Toolbar's Popup Menu" topic.
  • Ribbon - TdxRibbonGalleryItem - An AV occurs on repopulating a gallery at runtime if the second or any subsequent group contains a selected item.
  • Ribbon - TdxRibbonGalleryItem - Switching a gallery item's Enabled...

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

NavBar Control

  • Hamburger Menu - This release includes a new skin-based View with a collapsed state. The new Hamburger Menu allows you to deliver user experiences that mirror those found in Windows 10 (displays a button or a narrow strip of icons when collapsed). As a hybrid of the Accordion View and Navigation Pane View, the Hamburger Menu ships with features common to the Accordion/Navigation Pane, including nested groups and expand/collapse animation effects.

New Formatted Label

  • The...