History

TrvActionExport can export DocX files (without office converters). Make sure that ffeDocX is included in Filter.

TrvActionNew.Reset is made public.

Compatibility issues:

TRVAControlPanel.TableGridStyle property is removed.

Redesigned control panel

TRVAControlPanel is redesigned. It does not assign global variables any more. You can have more than one control panel in a single application. New properties of TRVAControlPanel: Header, Footer.

New actions

Styles:

TrvActionStyleTemplates

TrvActionAddStyleTemplate

TrvActionClearFormat

TrvActionClearTextFormat

TrvActionStyleInspector

Cell rotation:

TrvActionTableCellRotationNone

TrvActionTableCellRotation90

TrvActionTableCellRotation180

TrvActionTableCellRotation270

Table operations:

TrvActionTableSplit

TrvActionTableSort

TrvActionTableToText

New and improved components

New components for applying style templates:

TRVStyleTemplateComboBox

TRVStyleTemplateListBox

Improved components (can be linked to an editor, do not require additional code any more):

TRVFontComboBox

TRVFontSizeComboBox

TRVFontCharsetComboBox

ScaleRichView support

You can assign not only TRichViewEdit, but also TSRichViewEdit to TRVAControlPanel.DefaultControl, or Control properties of actions.

Simplification: since this version, when using ScaleRichView, you do not need to assign RVA_GetRichViewEditFromPopupComponent and RVA_GetRichViewEdit variables, you do not need to call SRichViewEdit.SetRVMargins in TRVAControlPanel.OnMarginsChanged.

Visual changes

Delphi XE2+'s visual styles are supported in components and dialogs. The function RVA_ChooseStyle allows choosing and applying one of available styles.

Inverted (a light text on a dark background) color schemes are supported.

Text files

The file actions allow choosing a code page for text files (including UTF-8). This feature can be disabled by assigning TRVAControlPanel.UseTextCodePageDialog=False.

New features, properties and events

A new event TRVAControlPanel.OnGetActionControlCoords allows to specify coordinates for color-picker windows when actions are linked to non-visual components (for example, when using ExpressBars by Developer Express).

TrvActionNew resets styles according to StyleTemplates, if style templates are used. TrvActionOpen can use a linked TrvActionNew to reset document before loading.

TrvActionPasteSpecial:

•allows pasting URLs;

•respects RichViewEdit.AcceptPasteFormats property;

•if style templates are used, displays style modes for pasting RTF and RVF.

TrvActionFontEx can change a text background color (new BackColor property).

TrvActionInsertHyperlink can apply HoverUnderlineColor and HoverEffects properties (if style templates are not used). If style templates are used, it applies the chosen StyleTemplateName.

TrvActionTableGrid shows/hides grid only in the target editor.

In the print preview form (TrvActionPrintPreview), a mouse wheel changes pages,  Ctrl +mouse wheel zooms in/out

New optional parameters in NormalizeRichView.

Localization

New localization functions: RVA_GetProgressMessage, RVA_GetPrintingMessage.

New languages:

•Portuguese (European)

•Catalan

•Hindi (in Delphi 4-2007, it is available only if TNT Controls are used);

•Thai

New units of measurement

All dialogs display values measured according to new TRVAControlPanel.UnitsDisplay and TRVAControlPanel.PixelBorders properties.

Properties of several actions are measured in TRVAControlPanel.UnitsProgram.

New images

A new set of toolbar images is available, created specially for RichViewActions. This set of images is used in this manual.

New component images are used in the Delphi/C++Builder's Component Palette for the components included in RichViewActions.

New properties of TRVAControlPanel

TRVAControlPanel.DefaultDocParameters define a page layout for new documents (especially useful for ScaleRichView)

New TRVAControlPanel.DialogFontSize property.

Changes in menus

New TRVAPopupActionBar component (for Delphi 2006 or newer).

The type of ActionList property for menus was changed from TActionList to TCustomActionList, to allow using TActionManager.

Changes in actions

New action: TrvActionHide. TrvActionShowSpecialCharacters shows/hides a hidden text as well as special characters.

New properties:

•TrvActionFontEx.AutoApplySymbolCharset

•TrvActionInsertHLine.Style defines the style for inserted horizontal lines

•TrvActionBackground.CanChangeMargins allows/disallows changing margins

•TrvActionParaBullets's and TrvActionParaNumbering's IndentStep defines default indents for list levels.

TrvActionParaList.IndentStep now affects indents of list style templates in non-HTML dialog too.

Other changes

New RVARibbonUtils unit.

Ability to use CleverComponents for downloading images.

New actions:

TrvActionPasteAsText

TrvActionVAlign

TrvActionClearLeft

TrvActionClearRight

TrvActionClearBoth

TrvActionClearNone

TrvActionRemoveHyperlinks

New methods, properties and events

•TrvActionInsertFile.InsertFile method

•TrvActionInsertPicture.Spacing property

•TrvActionParagraph.OutlineLevel property (paragraph dialog has a new combobox for specifying a paragraph outline level)

•TrvActionItemProperties.OnCanApply event

New features:

•New types of vertical alignment for pictures in TrvActionItemProperties.

•Properties dialog for breaks (TrvActionItemProperties) has a new combobox for specifying a break style (line/rectangle/3d/dotted/dashed).

•Pasting HTML from the Clipboard using rvHtmlViewImporter.

•New datamodules with alternative toolbar images (GlyFX and Fugue Icons)