PRODUCT DESCRIPTION

The TX Text Control Collection is the ideal development tool for word processing applications under Microsoft Windows. If you need a complete word processor, an intranet application, a desktop publisher with free text positioning and free text flow or a hypertext application, the TX Text Control Collection is the perfect choice. The TX Text Control Collection is very compact, and is compatible with Microsoft Edit Control, but offers you in addition all the functions of a WYSIWYG word processor. Despite its high functionality, can be used trouble-free even by beginners.

Tables
Text Control enables you to include tables in your documents. Text in a table can contain virtually any kind of formatting that normal text can: multiple paragraphs with different fonts, indents and line spacing. Even images, macro fields and OLE objects can be inserted. Frames and shading can be separately adjusted for each individual table cell. Making the table frames invisible allows text to be set in columns.

HTML Filter
With the new HTML filter, Text Control can be used to create Intranet and Internet applications. A WWW browser which contains all you need for connection to the Web is included as a sample program. The HTML filter is also an important extension for ‘normal’ word processors because HTML is becoming increasingly important as a standard format

OLE Objects
Recent versions of Text Control have let you insert images into your documents, with the text flowing around them. In the new version, this also works with OLE objects. You can also insert other Text Controls as OLE objects.

Character and Paragraph Formatting

All character formats, including foreground and background colors are available and can be freely combined. Flexible paragraph formatting such as indentation, four different types of tabs, variable line and paragraph spacing, and paragraph frames offer a variety of possibilities for arranging paragraphs.

Zoom in/out

The TX Text Control Collection includes a zoom in/out mechanism. All word processing functions, including text input, are available, independent of the zoom level you set.

Images within a Text

The TX Text Control Collection is especially powerful for positioning images in a text. Images can be positioned as characters within a line of text, or at a given position on a page. The flow of text around an image is controlled via a dialog box. Images can be re-scaled. For the import of images the TX Text Control Collection supports the file formats: TIFF, BMP and Windows metafiles. Images which have been positioned within a text can be stored embedded in an RTF file, or as linked image files (TIFF, BMP, WMF).

Mail Merge, Hypertext and Data Bases

The TX Text Control Collection supports the use of macro fields. You can simply and quickly realize hypertext and mail merge applications with the assistance of macro fields. Moreover, macro fields are easily connected to databases so that you can store (formatted) text in a database field or display the contents of a database field.

Integrated Dialog Boxes

Integrated dialog boxes, for setting paragraph, text and table formatting, as well as for searching and replacing are an integrated component of the TX Text Control Collection.

Database support

TX Text Control Collection can, in conjuction with databases, be used as a database browser. The records of an database can be read, displayed, altered and then stored again. There is also the possibility of storing the complete contents of a TX Text Control, including all the paragraph- and character formatting information in one data field.

The 5 Controls

The TX Text Control Collection consists of 5 controls. So that you can be flexible in your development, only those controls which are necessary for your application need to be used. There are separate controls for word processing, status lines, rulers (horizontal and vertical), and the button bar.

File Formats and Data Exchange

Problem free data exchange with other word processing programs is achieved via the Rich Text File format (RTF, version 1.4). In this way the formatting attributes remain preserved to the greatest possible extent. This is also valid for the exchange of formatted text via the clipboard. In addition to the RTF-format though, the TX Text Control Collection supports its own file format and imports and exports ASCII files.