Released: Oct 1, 2020

Updates in 2020 Volume 3

Features

Autocomplete

• Clear button support - Clear button support has been added to the Autocomplete control when loaded inside the Text Input Layout control.

Busy Indicator

• Material animation - The Busy Indicator control now features a Material-style animation.

Circular Gauge

• Image export - Export the circular gauge to a file stream and various image formats.
• Dragging events - Use the following events when the user drags the pointer:
  • ValueChangeStarted: Called when the user starts selecting a new value for the pointer by dragging.
  • ValueChanging: Called during a drag when the user is selecting but before there’s a new value for the pointer.
  • ValueChanged: Called when the user is selecting a new value for the pointer by dragging.
  • ValueChangeCompleted: Called when the user is done selecting a new value for the pointer by dragging.

ComboBox

• Clear button support - Clear button support has been provided for the ComboBox control when loaded inside the Text Input Layout control.

Date Picker

• Date format - The date format dd/MM/yyyy has been added.

Microsoft Word Library

• Paper source settings - Access and modify the paper source settings in a Word document with the FirstPageTray and OtherPagesTray APIs.
• Shapes in RTF format - Preserve shapes in RTF-to-DOCX conversion and vice versa.
• Word-to-PDF enhancements
  • Justify the text in a paragraph, like in Microsoft Word 2013.
  • Automatically detect font names from themes for East Asian text.
  • Draw double strikethrough and underline styles, like in Microsoft Word.

Image Editor

• Hide the delete icon button - Hide or show the delete icon button in the Image Editor.
• Color palette circle size - Customize the color palette circle size.
• Zoom level - Zoom images programmatically.

Maps

• Tap and pan events - New events when tapping and panning a map to draw and edit shapes.
• Bring selected marker to top - Bring a selected map marker above all the other markers.

Masked Entry

• Cursor position and position changing event - Set the cursor position for the Masked Entry control and use a new event that provides notification of cursor position changes.

PDF Library

• PDF417Barcode - Render PDF417Barcode in PDF pages and images.
• Sign PDF documents externally using hash - Sign PDF documents externally using PDF document hash.
• Detect blank PDF page - Find empty PDF pages in existing PDF documents.
• Detect PDF conformance - Detect the PDF conformance of existing PDF documents.
• Annotation import and export - Import and export annotations in JSON format.

Microsoft PowerPoint Library

• PPTX-to-PDF enhancements
  • Automatically detect font names from themes for complex script and East Asian text.
  • Use an API to define a fallback font for any Unicode character range. This fallback font is used to render characters that do not have glyphs in the original font.

Border

• Border thickness - Use the border thickness property to set the width of an element’s four borders.

DataGrid

• Swipe all rows - Swipe all rows (table summary, group summary, caption summary, unbound) except header rows.

Rich Text Editor

• Insert HTML text - Insert HTML text or raw text at the current cursor position.
• Toolbar position - Switch the position of a toolbar to the top or bottom of the screen.

Tabbed View

• UI virtualization - Loading the UI on demand to the view in Tabbed View control.

TreeMap

• Multi-level support for hierarchical collection data - Users can display multiple-level tree map nodes when using a hierarchical data collection.

Microsoft Excel Library

• Excel to PDF enhancements
  • Convert Excel charts with images and shapes to a PDF or image.
  • Convert data bars and color scales of conditional formats to PDF.
  • Convert Excel form controls to PDF AcroForm fields or flattened images.