MetaDraw OCX Reviews

Average Review Score: 3 (1)

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carlUnited Kingdom3 star
I love this product and I hate it! It has very many methods but it just doesn't feel object orientated. To be fair, I'm using the ActiveX version and hosting it in MS Access and a quick look at the... Read more
carlUnited Kingdom3 star
I love this product and I hate it! It has very many methods but it just doesn't feel object orientated. To be fair, I'm using the ActiveX version and hosting it in MS Access and a quick look at the .NET version shows it's miles better, but even so it feels old fashioned and procedural. There's a fair amount of code supplied along with it to get you started which is good and the support staff answer queries very easily with code suggestions. However, the code is written in what looks to me like a fairly old fashioned way. The documentation has fairly good coverage of all the methods but there are a few gotchas hidden here and there that held me up for a while. Also, there are sections of documentation which are quite simply unfinished. If I had the time to repeat the project in which I used MetaDraw I would have found something with better rich text support - I can't find a way of underlining text, for example. One feature I do like is the ability to assign drawn objects arbitrary tags. Then, when I'm looking for objects of that type I can iterate through a collection of them - albeit in quite an old fashioned windows api-like way. I have no experience with other similar ActiveX controls so I'll give it 3 stars because it does actually do the job well but feels old fashioned, doesn't provide very good rich text support and the documentation is unfinished.