This is a demo for RichView and RichViewActions (set of actions for building a user interface)

It shows how to create a word processor almost without writing pascal (or C++) code.

This demo was compiled with several freeware third-party components for importing HTML files, working with XML documents, and working with Gif and Png images. See details in readme.txt.

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Other demos (below) do not use RichViewActions.

• create a basic editor for documents with images, buttons, edit boxes, tables
• work with tables
• import and export (including pasting RTF from the Clipboard)
• print with preview

Location of this demo in the RichView installation:

• Demos\Delphi\Editors\Editor 1\
• Demos\CBuilder\Editors\Editor 1\

This demo does not show how to implement text commands (like “make bold”, “apply font”)
These commands are shown in
• Demos\Delphi\Editors\Editor 2\
• Demos\CBuilder\Editors\Editor 2\

This demo consists of seven small sub-demos, showing some ideas for using the component.

Location of this demo in the RichView installation:

• Demos\Delphi\MultiDemo\
• Demos\CBuilder\MultiDemo\

Demo showing the use of images with a specific degree of transparency.

Location of this demo in the RichView installation:

• Demos\Addins\BlendBitmap\

This is not the only way to implement semitransparency.
For example, RichViewActions demo above can insert semitransparent PNG images (with third-party PNG component)

This demo uses text import and export converters from Microsoft Office.
It imports and exports files of different formats, including DOC and HTML.
Note: Microsoft Office is required for this demo (otherwise the list of converters will be empty).

This demo uses a third-party class allowing to work with Gif images.

Location of this demo in the RichView installation:

• Demos\Delphi\OfficeConverters\
• Demos\CBuilder\OfficeConverters\

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This application uses RichView tables to display questions and answers.

Location of this demo in the RichView installation:

• Demos\Delphi\Assorted\PlanetQuiz\
• Demos\CBuilder\Assorted\PlanetQuiz\

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This application implements a listbox-like selection using RichView hypertext features.

Location of this demo in the RichView installation:

• Demos\Delphi\Assorted\Hypertext\PhoneBook\
• Demos\CBuilder\Assorted\Hypertext\PhoneBook\

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The first application in this demo is a template editor. It edits a template (saved in a file) and database with fields (names and values).

The second application in this demo loads the template file and replaces fields in it with the field values.

This demo requires the Borland BDE.

Location of this demo in the RichView installation:

• Demos\Delphi\Assorted\Fields\MailMerge2\
• Demos\CBuilder\Assorted\Fields\MailMerge2\

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Like the previous example, this one consists of two applications: template editor and the main application.

This example has the following features:

• “Smart Popups” are used for editing fields, dates, and numbering sequences;
• a special item type (“LabelItem”) is used as fields.

Location of this demo in the RichView installation:

• Demos\Delphi\Assorted\Fields\MailMerge-LabelItem\
• Demos\CBuilder\Assorted\Fields\MailMerge-LabelItem\

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Very simple spreadsheet application — values in some cells are read-only and automatically calculated

Location of this demo in the RichView installation:

• Demos\Delphi\Assorted\Fields\Spreadsheet\
• Demos\CBuilder\Assorted\Fields\Spreadsheet\

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This demo shows support for right-to-left languages.

Location of this demo in the RichView installation:

• Demos\Delphi\Assorted\International\RTL\
• Demos\CBuilder\Assorted\International\RTL\

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