Product Overview for TX Text Control ActiveX

Available in Standard, Professional and Enterprise editions, TX Text Control ActiveX is a royalty-free word processing control that offers developers a broad range of word processing features in one reusable component.

TX Text Control ActiveX - built on trusted technology

Based on trusted and well tested technology, TX Text Control ActiveX offers developers advanced word processing in simple component form.

Using TX Text Control ActiveX, developers can create all kinds of text-based applications with the ease of programming that is characteristic of Visual Basic and with highly sophisticated formatting and display capabilities which are normally the exclusive domain of large word processing packages.

Typical TX Text Control ActiveX based Solutions

TX Text Control ActiveX offers developers hands-on access to the most comprehensive set of word processing features available in any development toolkit currently on the market. TX Text Control ActiveX is ideally suited to all applications that demand powerful, but flexible word processing features. Consider the following typical TX Text Control ActiveX based solutions:

Standardized WYSIWYG Word Processing

Embedded in most applications is the ability to edit text. TX Text Control ActiveX offers your developers a wide range of word processing functions to add to their applications. Provide your clients with a fully featured WYSIWYG interface to create invoices, letters, quotes or other office documents.

• Standardized WYSIWYG interface

• Fully featured word processing

• Drag and drop

Report Generation

Enable developers to build client applications that bind directly to databases. Retrieve textual and binary data from a database, edit and save directly from TX Text Control ActiveX in all support formats.

• Comprehensive database interface

• Build powerful reporting applications

• Store formatted text as BLOBs in database

Database Bound Mail Merging

Mail merging is a popular application in an office environment. Paper-based mail shots, e-mail newsletters, quote generation, form letters are typical applications that can benefit from TX Text Control ActiveX's flexible mail merge handling.

• Separate client data and word processing documents

• Personalize communications with your clients

• Batch processing - clients can do something useful while their PC is working

XML Processing (read and write)

Capitalize on XML's document interchangeability, while offering clients a standardized WYSIWYG interface to edit their documents. Working with XML is as simple as with any other file format that TX Text Control ActiveX supports.

• Streamline the authoring process

• Write once, format in many ways

• Custom-assemble documents for clients and business partners

Document Conversion (RTF, DOC, PDF and many more)

Office staff are faced with an every growing number of word processing formats: DOC, RTF, TXT, HTML, CSS, XML, PDF. Empower your developers to build applications that handle all these formats and many more using TX Text Control ActiveX.

• Native PDF support (no driver or 3rd party software)

• Publish directly to the web (Save as HTML)

• One application for most word processing formats

Business Benefits

• Reduce development time and costs - features your developers would have to spend hours programming are only one line of code away

• Complete confidence knowing TX Text Control ActiveX will perform as expected

• Satisfy your clients by making it easy and intuitive for them to create and edit word processing documents

• Build client applications that save directly to the universal document exchange formats XML and PDF

• Guaranteed unlimited professional support at no extra charge

• Timely updates and new versions

• Knowing you are backed by the industry leader in word processing controls

Developer Benefits

Developers using TX Text Control ActiveX benefit from:

• Simple deployment of a wide range of word processing features

  • Tables, headers & footers, images and stylesheets

  • XML and stylesheet programming, save directly to PDF

  • Unicode, multi-lingual dialog boxes

  • And many more. See edition comparison for full details

• Unlimited telephone, e-mail and forum support:

  • Telephone support queries are dealt with immediatly

  • E-mail and forum queries are answered in one business day

• Stability backed by a broad client base and many thousand satisfied clients