ALLText HT/Pro

Why Choose ALLText?

ALLText HT/Pro Features

• Display and edit text in multiple simultaneous fonts and font characteristics:
  • Font name and font size
  • Bold, underline, italic, strikethrough, super and subscripts
  • Colours and Custom Shadowing
• Paragraph Formatting (for each paragraph):
  • Alignment: centred, left, right, or left/right justify
  • Margins: left and top, as well as hanging, right and bottom indents
  • Vertical spacing: space before, after, and line spacing, also Tab Stop size
• Cut, Copy and Paste - including preservation of format between applications; cut/copy text from ALLText and paste it into Microsoft Word
• Font Table Manipulation - Directly manage document font tables, facilitating the smooth and rapid changing of fonts; eg: change all Arial 25pt to italics in an instant
• Background Transparency - See other controls or form images behind ALLText
• Background Images - Scrolls background image with the document - Position it anywhere, even move dynamically - great for animation, special effects; watermarks, ...
• Flexible Print Support - Print complete document or specified pages, EndPage event support for adding Headers and Footers, Specify margins and placement, include watermark
• Powerful Search Search by text and / or by formatting

• Embedded OLE objects - great for including bitmaps, spreadsheets, or graphs. A server is needed for inclusion or editing, but not for viewing
• Embedded Images - embed and view BMP, WMF, ICO and JPEG images
• HYPERTEXT tagging on phrases - can be used for bookmarks or special fields; events triggered on Click, DblClick, and mouse/cursor enter/leave tagged phrase
• Data Aware - use ALLText HT/Pro as a bound control to a memo or binary field
  (Supported under Visual Basic only)
• Absolute Tab positioning - Use left, right, and centred tabs
• UnDo Support Undo User Changes through code
• Full Drag and Drop support - drag and drop within ALLText, between ALLText and other controls, even between ALLText and other applications
• Ultra Smooth Scrolling - programmably control scrolling down to 2 pixels at a time.
• RTF support - load and save RTF files with full character formatting for exchange of files with other stand-alone applications
• HTML Support - Optional license add-on brings RTF and HTML into one control - see HTML Support description below
• TABLE Support - Optional license add-on enables table creation, display, editing - see Table Support description below
• MORE . . . - Additional features included with Optional Extended Feature License

ALLText HT/Pro License Options

HTML Support License

• Ability to Convert RTF to HTML and HTML to RTF
• Ability to Load HTML Files
• Ability to parse and display HTML files or strings (file I/O support is for local files only, TCP/IP support must be handled through your own code, or from a string in memory)
• Automatic handling of Level 1 HTML - additional VB code is required for support of images (sample VB code is included with purchase)
• Ability to generate and save HTML Data
• HTML Tag event triggered for unrecognised tags - allows you to extend HTML for your own use, or prepare for future versions of HTML
• HTMLEndParsing event allows additional manipulations to be taken programmatically after ALLText parsing is concluded
• Assign or read HTML styles for selected text
• Retrieve anchors based on HTag references
• Set or read body tag features - background colour, etc
• Set or Read HTML document title

Tables Support License

• Read, Create, and View documents with fully formatted Tables - compatible with most versions of MS Word RTF
• Nested tables
• Embed Images and OLE Objects in Table cells
• Add/Delete Rows, Columns or individual cells
• Convert Text to Tables
• Merge or Split Cells
• Set Row Height / Adjust Column boundaries
• Set cursor/selection to any cell(s)
• Identify active table, row and cell

Extended Features Support License

Mouse Wheel Support - ALLText can now scroll via the mouse wheel. By setting the MouseWheelEnabled property users can now have full control over the scrolling function of the Mouse Wheel (ATX45.ocx v.1.66 04/07/03 or newer ).

• Printing Headers & Footers - Support for Automatic printing of Headers and Footers with the use of the Modifications property, HeaderFText & FooterFText properties and the SetHeaderFooterMargin property.
• Displaying Printer Dialog Box - Support for choosing what printer to print to with the use of the Modifications property.
• UnRecognised RTF Tags - Trigger events upon parsing of unrecognized RTF tags - great for creating your own proprietary tags, or for debugging invalid RTF documents.
• Soft Page Break Display - Displays a 1 pixel thick grey line marking soft page breaks.
• Saving PageMargins - PageMarginTop and PageMarginLeft properties, now return the values of the top margin and left margin when reading or can be set when saving RTF files.
• FontBackColor - For setting the background color of a selected region of text.
• Extended Hidden Text Support - To simplify retrieval of hidden text within ALLText.
• Write Protection of Text Regions - The WriteProtect property makes it much easier to write reliable hypertext design and mail merge type apps where designer and end-user of applications should not be allowed to edit certain areas of a document.
• Setting Default Fonts - DefFontName and DefFontSize properties allows the setting of default fonts in ALLText.
• Retrieval of Current Text line - The function ATX_GetCurrentLineText simplifies the retrieval of the current line of text.
• Carriage Return/Line Feed surpression - A Mask Flag value for use with the SelFType and ExtDataType properties.
• Mouse Cursors (positioning) - Support for placing the cursor before or after the pasted text with the use of the Modifications property.
• Mouse Cursors (changing) - UserCursor and UserHCursor properties, allows the setting of a custom cursor at design or runtime. UserCursor property is used when over ordinary text. The UserHCursor property is used when the mouse is over a hotspot.
• Long String Properties - FText, SelFText, Text and SelText can hold long strings. Without the Extended Features Support License these properties are limited to 32k of text.