19.1.0.3 Aug 29, 2024
*Added: FormatABC method formats the A,B,C values based on the giving expression and returns the result. For instance, FormatABC("dpi") returns a numeric value that indicates the display settings ( aspect ratio ).
*Added: Expands or collapses the entire selection if the user clicks any +/- glitch, presses Left/Right/+ or- key inside the selection, while the CTRL is pressed. This option is valid, while the control's SingleSel property is False.
*Fixed: The EnsureVisibleItem method does not vertically scroll the control's content, if previously the control's list has been sorted ( Column.SortOrder property, Layout property, ... )
19.1.0.2 Jun 19, 2024
*Fixed: Sometimes, the Data.Files.Count property returns a wrong number of files, during OLE drag and drop events (/COM version)
*Fixed: The user can't resize the last locked-column that fit's the control's client area, if it wider (CountLockedColumns property)
*Fixed: The control scrolls more columns, if locked columns are visible and the user do horizontal page scrolling by clicking the horizontal scroll bar's background. ( CountLockedColumns property )
19.1.0.1 Apr 24, 2024
*NEW: Ability to export the control's content to HTML format ( including CSS )
*Added: The Destination parameter of the Export method could be "htm" or "html" or a file with the extension "htm" or "html" indicates that the control's content is exported in HTML format. If the Destination parameter points to a valid file name, it will be created.
*Added: The Export method exports the control's content as ANSI, no matter of the control's configuration, unless the forth field of the Options parameter is not unicode. Shortly, you can export the control's content as UNICODE by calling a code like Export Destination, "|||unicode"
*Fixed: The Export method includes the visible items only, if any filter is applied to the control ( excludes the chk and sel options ).
19.0.0.7 Feb 05, 2024
*Fixed: The BackColorLevelHeader property is not initialized (the control's header shows black areas)
*Fixed: Can't select the focus-item with the arrow keys, if it selectable while the view displays a single item and the SingleSel property is False.
*Fixed: The Items.ItemHeight property sets the height using DPI conversion.
19.0.0.6 Oct 30, 2023
*Added: The FilterBarCaption property supports the leafitemcount keyword that counts the number of leaf items being shown in the control. This function should be used when you are displaying hierarchies, else you can still uses itemcount or matchitemcount that are faster than leafitemcount function. For instance, FilterBarCaption property "allui + `<r>` + leafitemcount + ` item(s)`" displays all available UI filter columns, and aligned to the right the number of leaf items.
*Added: The Background(exColumnsPositionSign) specifies the visual appearance for the position sign between columns, when the user changes the position of the column by drag and drop. By default, the Background(exColumnsPositionSign) property is 0, which indicates that the default position sign is shown when the user change the column's position by drag and drop.
*Fixed: Sometimes, can't select by drag items if the ColumnAutoResize property is False
*Fixed: The Items.ItemMinHeight and ItemMaxHeight properties are DPI compatible.
19.0.0.5 Jul 31, 2023
*Added: Shows the drop down filter and tooltip panels to the nearest monitor relative to the cursor position.
*Added: The Background(exTreeGlyphOpen)/Background(exTreeGlyphClose) specifies the visual appearance for the +/- buttons when it is collapsed/expanded. This option is valid while HasButtons property is exPlus ( by default ), and any of Background(exTreeGlyphOpen)/Background(exTreeGlyphClose) is not-zero
*Added: The Background(exFooterFilterBarButton) property on -1 hides permanently the close button of the control's filter bar.
*Fixed: Disables the default beep being played when the user presses the Enter, Escape or CTRL + F key on control's filter bar
19.0.0.4 May 24, 2023
*Added: Shows the hand cursor when the cursor hovers the open-filter button of the column's header or close button of the control's filter bar
*Fixed: The drop down filter panel is closed as soon as it shows up, if it is displayed over the current cursor location
*Fixed: Corrects the shadow effect for drop down panels like filters, editors, tooltips,... on systems with DPI setting not-100%
*Fixed: The user can't use the column's filter button being shown in the control's columns floating bar ( ColumnsFloatBarVisible property )
19.0.0.3 Apr 05, 2023
*Added: Background(exSelForeColorHide) / Background(exSelBackColorHide) property specifies the selection's foreground and background colors when the control has no focus. This has effect while the control's HideSelection property is False
*Added: AllowSelectNothing property specifies whether the current selection is erased, once the user clicks outside of the items section. For instance, if the control's SingeSel property is True, and AllowSelectNothing property is True, you can un-select the single-selected item if pressing the CTRL + Space, or by CTRL + click.
*Added: SelectOnRelease property indicates whether the selection occurs when the user releases the mouse button. By default, the selection occurs, as soon as the user clicks an object. The SelectOnRelease property has no effect if the SingleSel property is False, and SelectByDrag property is True.
*Fixed: Hides the hot-tracking item as soon as control's content is scrolled ( rotating the mouse wheel for instance ), selection is changed ( any of arrow key is pressed for instance ).
19.0.0.2 Jan 30, 2023
*NEW: FilterBarCaption property supports expressions, and UI Column's Filter
*Added: The FilterBarCaption property supports expressions, so its evaluated value defines the HTML caption to be displayed on the control's filter bar. By default, the FilterBarCaption property is empty, so the control's automatically computes the filter bar's label based on the filter of each column. If no filter is selected, no filter label is generated. The FilterBarCaption property supports the following predefined keywords: value or current ( defines the control's current filter label, as it is displayed ), itemcount keyword returns the number of all items within the control, visibleitemcount keyword indicates the number of visible items within the control ( negative value indicates that the control has a filter applied, equivalent with the Items.VisibleItemCount property ), matchitemcount keyword indicates the number of items that currently matches the control's filter ( negative value indicates that the control has a filter applied, equivalent with the Items.MatchItemCount property ), promptpattern keyword specifies the currently pattern for the filter's prompt ( this is eligible, if the FilterBarPromptVisible property includes the exFilterBarPromptVisible flag ), available keyword returns a list of columns that are currently not filtered, but available to be filtered for ( Column.DisplayFilterButton property on True ) as a HTML string, allui keyword returns a HTML caption that includes all columns with Column.DisplayFilterButton property on True, including the value for each column's filter if it is filtered, all keyword returns a HTML caption that includes all columns including the value for each column's filter if it is filtered. For instance, FilterBarCaption = "`<r>` + value" aligns the filter bar's label to the right, the "value replace `[` with `<fgcolor=808080>[` replace `]` with `]</fgcolor>`" shows the column's name with a different color, "`<b><r>` + value + `</b><fgcolor=808080>` + ( matchitemcount < 0 ? ( ( len(value) ? `<br>` : `` ) + `<r>` + abs(matchitemcount + 1) + ` result(s)` ) : ``)" displays the number of results in the control's filter bar and so on.
*Added: Ability to clear / select new filter value from the column's filter panel, if the user clicks the column's caption of the control's filter bar. The value, current, available, allui or all keyword of the FilterBarCaption property returns a HTML caption that includes the column's caption between [<b> and </b>] if the column is currently filtered ( shows as bold between brackets ), between <fgcolor=C0C0C0>[<s> and </s>]<fgcolor> if the column is not currently filtered ( shows in strikeout as gray between brackets ). The all, allui and available keywords uses the <fgcolor> </fgcolor> sequence (uncolored space) to separate the parts on the control's filter description. You can use predefined functions like replace to change the appearance of the column in the control's filter bar. For instance, "all replace `<s>` with `` replace `</s>` with ``" removes the strikeout effect for available and not-filtered columns, "allui replace `[<b>` with `<bgcolor=000000><fgcolor=FFFFFF><b> ` replace `</b>]` with ` </b></fgcolor></bgcolor>`" shows the filtered columns on white on a black background, "value + `<r>` + available replace `<fgcolor=C0C0C0>` with `<fgcolor=FF0000>`" shows the currently filter on the left, while the available filter on the right in red,
*Added: The Items.MatchItemCount property retrieves the number of items that match the filter. If negative it indicates that a filter is applied, and its absolute value minus 1 specifies the count of items that match the filter criteria. If zero, no items are loaded into the control, and so no filter is applied. If positive, it indicates the total number of items within the control equivalent with the Items.ItemCount property.
*Added: Items.VisibleItemCount property returns negative value, if the control has a filter applied. The negative value represents a formula of -( count + 1 ), where count indicates the number of matching items. For instance, if the Items.VisibleItemCount property returns -1, the count of matching items is 0, if -2, 1 matching item, if -3, 2 matching items, and so on.
19.0.0.1 Nov 28, 2022
*NEW: Radical Improvements for control's Filter-Prompt-Bar
*Added: The FilterBarPromptVisible property of FilterBarVisibleEnum type, specifies how the control's filter bar is displayed and behave. Previously, the FilterBarPromptVisible property was of Boolean type. By default, FilterBarPromptVisible property is exFilterBarHidden, so no filter bar is shown. Even so, the control's filter bar is shown as before, as soon as the user selects a value from the control's filter list, so a filter is applied. The FilterBarVisibleEnum type includes several flags that can be combined together, as described bellow.
*Added: The exFilterBarPromptVisible, exFilterBarVisible, exFilterBarCaptionVisible flag of FilterBarVisibleEnum type, forces the control's filter-prompt, filter bar or filter bar description ( even empty ) to be shown.
*Added: The exFilterBarSingleLine flag of FilterBarVisibleEnum type, specifies that the filter bar's caption is shown on a single line, so <br> HTML tag or \r\n are not handled. By default, the control's filter description applies word wrapping. Can be combined to exFilterBarCompact to display a single-line filter bar.
*Added: The exFilterBarToggle flag of FilterBarVisibleEnum type, specifies that the user can close the control's filter bar ( removes the control's filter ) by clicking the close button of the filter bar or by pressing the CTRL + F, while the control's filter bar is visible. If no filter bar is displayed, the user can display the control's filter bar by pressing the CTRL + F key. While the control's filter bar is visible the user can navigate though the list or control's filter bar using the ALT + Up/Down keys.
*Added: The exFilterBarShowCloseIfRequired flag of FilterBarVisibleEnum type, indicates that the close button of the control's filter bar is displayed only if the control has any currently filter applied. The Background(exFooterFilterBarButton) property on -1 hides permanently the close button of the control's filter bar.
*Added: The exFilterBarShowCloseOnRight flag of FilterBarVisibleEnum type, specifies that the close button of the control's filter bar should be displayed on the right side. If the control's RightToLeft property is True, the close button of the control's filter bar would be automatically displayed on the left side.
*Added: The exFilterBarCompact flag of FilterBarVisibleEnum type, compacts the control's filter bar, so the filter-prompt will be displayed to the left, while the control's filter bar caption will be displayed to the right. This flag has effect only if combined with the exFilterBarPromptVisible. This flag can be combined with the exFilterBarSingleLine flag, so all filter bar will be displayed compact and on a single line.
18.0.0.6 Oct 12, 2022
*Added: Update the column's sort icon, so it won't be shown as distorted on DPI systems.
*Added: Miscellaneous changes for control's scrollbar-extension such as: contiguously scrolls the control's content line by line, or page by page ( if CTRL is pressed ) while the user keeps clicking the up/left top/right side of the thumb-extension, closes the scrollbar-extension as soon as the user presses ALT + F4, ALT + TAB, shows the scrollbar-extension only if effective mouse movement occurs, hides the scrollbar-extension as soon as the owner control loses the focus
*Fixed: The Items.CellState property can not be changed during the Open event of a Form ( MS Access )
18.0.0.5 Jun 08, 2022
*Added: The Background(exForeColorFilter) and Background(exBackColorFilter) applies the foreground / background colors to the drop down filter edit field ( pattern, date, filter on type, and so on )
*Added: The CellStateChanging( Item, ColIndex, by ref NewState ) event notifies your application when the cell's check box is about to be changed. For instance, you can disable changing the cell's state by setting the NewState parameter to Items.CellState( Item, ColIndex )
*Fixed: Closes the control's drag and drop image when user drops data to any other control. For instance, a MessageBox during the target's OLEDragDrop event will keep showing the control's drag and drop picture ( Background(exDragDropAfter) property, /COM version )
*Fixed: Sometimes the user can't drop data to a target control ( OLEDragDrop event is not fired, or fired for the source control, /COM version )
18.0.0.4 Mar 16, 2022
*NEW: Multiple improvements for expression-like properties such as: ConditionalFormat.Expression, Column.FormatColumn, Items.FormatCell and so on
*Added: a `like` b binary-operator compares the string a against the pattern b. The pattern b may contain wild-characters such as *, ?, # or [] and can have multiple patterns separated by space character. In order to have the space, or any other wild-character inside the pattern, it has to be escaped, or in other words it should be preceded by a \ character. For instance "value like `F*e`" matches all strings that start with F and ends on e, or "value like `a* b*`? indicates any strings that start with a or b character.
*Added: The 0x or 0X sequence proceed the hexa-representation of a number, in properties that support expressions. For instance, "value = 0x100" specifies whether the value is 256 ( 0x100 in hexa-representation )
*Added: `hex` a unary-operator converts the giving string from hexa-representation to a numeric value, or converts the giving numeric value to hexa-representation. For instance, hex(`FF`) returns 255, while the hex(255) or hex(0xFF) returns the `FF` string. The hex(hex(`FFFFFFFF`)) always returns `FFFFFFFF` string, as the second hex call converts the giving string to a number, and the first hex call converts the returned number to string representation (hexa-representation).
*Added: a `bitand`, `bitor`, `bitxor` b binary/bitwise-operator computes the AND/OR/XOR operation on bits of a and b, and returns the unsigned value. For instance, 0x01001000 bitand 0x10111000 returns 0x00001000, 0x01001000 bitor 0x10111000 returns 0x11111000, 0x01110010 bitxor 0x10101010 returns 0x11011000.
*Added: a `bitshift` b, binary/bitwise-operator shifts every bit of a value to the left if b is negative, or to the right if b is positive, for b times, and returns the unsigned value. For instance, 128 bitshift 1 returns 64 ( dividing by 2 ) or 128 bitshift (-1) returns 256 ( multiplying by 2 )
*Added: `bitnot` x unary/bitwise-operator flips every bit of x, and returns the unsigned value. For instance, bitnot(0x00FF0000) returns 0xFF00FFFF.
18.0.0.3 Jan 26, 2022
*NEW: Display a placeholder for missing icons, images in HTML captions.
*Added: The Key parameter of the HTMLPicture property is case insensitive, so you can display the picture using the insensitive key. For instance, <img>picA</img> is equivalent with <img>pica</img>, or <img>PICA</img> and so on.
*Added: The HTML caption shows a missing image placeholder for images whose source is missing. The missing placeholder displays the index of the icon being missing, or the key of the HTML picture being missing.
*Fixed: Prevents "Do you want to save ..." / "Save changes...' input box, when the user opens the form in design mode, and close it.
18.0.0.2 Jan 03, 2022
*Added: The exMatchIncludeParent flag of the FilterInclude property specifies whether the parent item is checking if the current value is not matching. In other words, if the value on the current item is not matching the filter, the control check the parent item's value and so on. If any match, the current item is included.
*Fixed: Removing certain objects during events of the control may fail. (DELETEIT)
*Fixed: Sometimes, aGPF may occur if calling the Items.RemoveAllItems during an event.
*Fixed: Sometimes, the Items.RemoveItem method fails, while the control is running in group-view mode ( AllowGroupBy property is True, Columns.SortBarColumnsCount property is not-zero ).
18.0.0.1 Dec 08, 2021
*NEW: Reduce the base-memory usage
*Added: Improves the performance to load data into the control.
*Added: FreezeEvents(Freeze) method prevents firing any event. For instance, FreezeEvents(True) freezes the control's events, no no event is fired, until the FreezeEvents(False) is called.
*Added: Statistics property, gives statistics information about objects being hold by the control.
17.0.0.5 Nov 03, 2021
*Added: The Version property includes the SpecialBuild number of the assembly so it provides information like Major.Minor.Build.Revison.SpecialBuild.Type...
*Added: The items in the drop down filter panel, gets sorts as string, numeric, date/time, based on the Column.SortType property.
*Fixed: The Background(exListOLEDropPosition), Background(exDragDropListOver),, Background(exDragDropListOver), Background(exDragDropListBetween), Background(exDragDropListTop), Background(exDragDropListBottom) visual appearance are not hidden, once the user leaves the control, while user performs the OLE Drag and Drop ( /COM version )
*Fixed: The Background(exDragDropListOver), Background(exDragDropListOver), Background(exDragDropListBetween), Background(exDragDropListTop), Background(exDragDropListBottom) visual appearance are not properly rendered on the control, when the user performs OLE Drag and Drop inside the control ( /COM Version )
17.0.0.4 Sep 29, 2021
*Added: Allows exporting data of hidden columns, when its index is specified in the second field of the Options parameter of the Export method. For instance, Export("","all|1") exports the second column ( column with the index 1, 0 based ), no matter if it is hidden or visible.
*Fixed: The scroll position is set to a value up to 32768, is the user clicks, drags and releases the scroll's thumb.
*Fixed: The Column.SortOrder or "singlesort", "multiplesort" fields on Layout property does not perform any sorting, if the control's SortOnClick property is exNoSort.
*Fixed: The column's header is shown at different location if the user clicks it, while the Column.Def(exHeaderPaddingLeft) or/and Column.Def(exHeaderPaddingRight) property is not-zero
17.0.0.3 Jul 12, 2021
*NEW: Ability to specify whether a column is updated contiguously while resizing, or only when the user releases the mouse
*Added: Column.Def(exColumnResizeContiguously) property gets or sets a value that indicates whether the control's content is updated while the user is resizing the column. By default, the Column.Def(exColumnResizeContiguously) property is False, which indicates that the control's content is updated once the user releases the mouse during resizing the column. For instance, you can use the Column.Def(exColumnResizeContiguously) property on True, if you have a column with Column.Def(exCellSingleLine) property on False ( word-wrap ), and you want the user to visually see the changes while resizing.
*Added: Improves the time to add new items, using the Items.InsertItem(,,,) or Items.AddItem(), when value/caption parameter is missing.
*Fixed: The Column.AutoWidth property ignores the Column.Def(exCellPaddingLeft) and Column.Def(exCellPaddingRight). The same if the user double-clicks the space between two columns in the header section.
17.0.0.2 May 17, 2021
*Added: Documentation for eXTree/JS (http://exontrol.com/rhelp.jsp?product=extree&config=/js)
*Added: "Clear Visual Design" and "Edit Visual Design" are available for /NET version on design mode.
*Fixed: Prevents a memory leak when loading icons, pictures, from BASE64 encoded strings (Images method, HTMLPicture picture).
*Fixed: The BackColorAlternate property has no effect on child items.
*Fixed: The apos function of Column.FormatColumn property returns 0, for sub-items
17.0.0.1 Mar 10, 2021
*NEW: Optimizing the component's UI, for usage on 4K (Ultra HD) applications.
*Added: Improves the performance when the control is scrolling up or down, using the up or down scroll-buttons or/and when rotating the mouse wheel ( vertical scrolling faster )
*Added: Prevents refreshing the entire control, when the user resizes the column.
*Fixed: Prevents repainting the entire control when the control gains or loses the focus, focusing a new column, and so on
16.0.0.3 Jan 20, 2021
*NEW: Ability to export values on multiple lines, by quoting them, when Export method is performed
*Added: Quotes text when using the Export method, if content includes any of "\r\n or delimiter character
*Added: AllowAutoDrag( Item, NewParent, InsertA, InsertB, ref Cancel ) event occurs when the user drags the Item between InsertA and InsertB items, as child of NewParent item. The Cancel parameter can be used to prevent dropping items to certain items, while control's AutoDrag property is any of exAutoDragPosition values.
16.0.0.2 Nov 30, 2020
*NEW: Support for EBN 1003 version.
*Added: EBN 1003 implements Colorable Region Support which defines a portion/region of the EBN object where the color of the EBN is applied. For instance, at runtime the identifier 0x1FF0000 applies blue color to all colorable parts that compose the EBN object. The EBN color is not applied to not-colorable portions of the EBNs.
*Added: The Handle parameter of Images method can be a string that specifies the ICO file to be loaded. The ICO file format is an image file format for computer icons in Microsoft Windows. ICO files contain one or more small images at multiple sizes and color depths, such that they may be scaled appropriately. For instance, Images("e:\working\sync.ico") method adds the sync.ico file to the control's Images collection.
*Added: Includes the Locked-Items fields to Export method
16.0.0.1 Oct 05, 2020
*Added: DPI-Aware Support
*NEW: Support for EBN 1004 version ( DPI-Aware support ).
*Added: The exClientExt attribute of the EBN/BackgroundExt/BackgroundExtValue supports DPI values, if the number is followed by a D character. For instance, if the DPI scaling is 100%, the 16d is 16, while for a 150% DPI scaling, the 16d is 24. In other words, "top[4,back=RGB(0,0,255)]", draws a blue line on the top side of the object's background, of 4-pixels wide, no matter of DPI scaling, while "top[4D,back=RGB(0,0,255)]", draws the line of 4-pixels wide if DPI scaling is 100%, or 6-pixels wide if DPI scaling is 150% )
*Added: The coordinates of the CP clause of the Skin parameter of VisualAppearance.Add method can be followed by a D character, which indicates the value according to the current DPI settings. For instance, "CP:1 -2 -2 2 2", copies the EBN with the identifier 1, and displays it on a 2-pixels wider rectangle no matter of the DPI settings, while "CP:1 -2D -2D 2D 2D" displays it on a 2-pixels wider rectangle if DPI settings is 100%, and on on a 3-pixels wider rectangle if DPI settings is 150%.
*Added: The expression properties support `dpi`, `dpix` and `dpiy` constants that returns the current DPI setting on x/y scale. For instance, the "value * dpi" returns the value if the DPI setting is 100%, or value * 1.5 in case, the DPI setting is 150%
15.0.0.8 Aug 10, 2020
*Added: `MIN` and `MAX` binary-operators to get the MIN and MAX value. For instance, the expression `value MIN 10 MAX 100` returns always a value between 10 and 100.
*Added: `sin`, `asin`, `cos`, `acos` unary-operators to get the associated trigonometric functions. For instance `2 * asin(1)` returns the value of PI
*Added: `sqrt` unary-operator returns the square root of the element, so sqrt(81) returns 9, as 9^2 is 81
*Added: date(`now`) unary-operator returns the current date-time ( as double ), while the date(``) returns the current date ( no time included )
*Fixed: Sometimes the control displays no items, but still showing the vertical scroll bar, when the user deletes multiple items ( Items.RemoveItem method )
15.0.0.7 Jun 15, 2020
*Added: lfind binary-operator for format/expression. The a lfind b searches the first occurrence of the string b within string a, and returns -1 if not found, or the position of the result ( zero-index ). For instance, `ABCABC` lfind `D` returns -1, while `ABCABC` lfind `C` returns 2.
*Added: rfind binary-operator for format/expression. The a rfind b searches the last occurrence of the string b within string a, and returns -1 if not found, or the position of the result ( zero-index ). For instance, `ABCABC` rfind `D` returns -1, while `ABCABC` rfind `C` returns 5.
*Added: reverse unary-operator for format/expression. The reverse(a) reverses the order of the characters in the string a, For instance, the reverse("Mihai") returns "iahiM"
*Fixed: Prevents showing the control's view in design mode, while running on FORTH system ( /COM version )
*Fixed: The pictures of a disabled item are not visible or shown at a different position, while the cursor hovers the item.
15.0.0.6 Apr 24, 2020
*Fixed: The control fails if the user presses the enter key, on the Filter For field of a drop down filter with an empty content ( Column.FilterType property is exNumeric )
*Fixed: Resets the column's filter if the user empties the Filter For field a drop down numeric filter ( Column.FilterType property is exNumeric )
*Fixed: Can't use Enter key while editing a cell, on ExHelper.
*Added: Validates the cell's content when the user presses the TAB key while editing.
*Fixed: The control plays a beep when the user presses the TAB key, while editing the cell.
15.0.0.5 Mar 30, 2020
*Added: Allows newly added items to be visible, while control has a filter applied ( Call the ApplyFilter method, during Change, KeyDown, ... event in order to re-apply the filter on the new items ).
*Added: The FilterPromptEnum.exFilterPromptStartWith or exFilterPromptEndWith is not applied for all columns ( FilterBarPromptColumns property is -1 )
*Fixed: Prevents horizontal scrolling the control's content if the user clicks a locked column ( CountLockedColumns property ).
*Fixed: An ICO file shows as 18x18 instead of 16x16 pixels if it is loaded using the HTMLPicture method.
15.0.0.4 Feb 26, 2020
*Added: The column's header displays the position of sorting order, if the control has multiple sorted-columns, while SortBarVisible property is False ( SingleSort property is False )
*Fixed: The a mod b expression fails, if b is zero or negative.
*Fixed: The a mid b expression fails, if b expression is greater than the length of the a
*Fixed: Prevents horizontal scrolling the control's content if the EnsureVisibleColumn is called for any locked column ( CountLockedColumns property ).
15.0.0.3 Jan 13, 2020
*Added: The Click event occurs ONLY if the user presses and releases the left mouse button on the same location, inside the control. If any mouse movement is detected between press/release no Click event is fired. Previously, the Click event is fired once the user releases the left mouse button over the control. You can use the MouseUp(1) event to notify your application once the user releases the left mouse button within the control.
*Added: The RClick event occurs ONLY if the user presses and releases the right mouse button on the same location, inside the control. If any mouse movement is detected between press/release no RClick event is fired. Previously, the RClick event is fired once the user releases the right mouse button over the control. You can use the MouseUp(2) event to notify your application once the user releases the right mouse button within the control.
*Added: Ability to filter programmatically for blank/empty items, if the Column.Filter property is "" ( empty string ), or include empty values between | characters, while Column.FilterType property is exFilter. For instance, Column.Filter property on "|Item1|Item2" specifies to filter the list for blank/empty items, Item1 or Item2, while Column.Filter property on "" indicates to include just the blank/empty items (Column.FilterType property is exFilter)
*Added: The Version property for /NET or /WPF version returns more information about the component/assembly/file.
15.0.0.2 Oc 28, 2019
*Added: </solidline>, </upline>, </dotline> HTML tags ends the solid, up or dotted line
*Added: Prevents showing the ,.;!?'")}] characters at the beginning of a new line, when html text is word-wrapping.
*Fixed: The last italic character of a HTML caption may be shown as clipped
*Fixed: The space after text is not highlighted if incremental search is on, and cell displays built-in HTML decorative text ( sha, out, gra )
*Fixed: The bold/italic parts of the HTML captions may be slightly vertically-misaligned, if the control's default font is large ( 16.5 or greater )
15.0.0.1 Sep 05, 2019
*NEW: Multiple improvements for RTL support ( Right-To-Left Layout ).
*Added: Aligns the locked columns to the right, if the RightToLeft property is True. ( CountLockedColumns property )
*Added: Aligns the control's group-by bar / sort bar to the right, if the RightToLeft property is True. ( SortBarVisible property )
*Added: The control's filter bar/prompt/close is aligned to the right, RightToLeft property is True. ( FilterBarPromptVisible property )
*Added: Call the EnsureVisibleColumn on the last visible column if RightToLeft property is True, else on the first visible column
14.2.0.1 May 27, 2019
*NEW: Exontrol Print Scale Support, Adjust To and Fit to Page Wide by Tall Support
*Added: Print.Options = "FitToPage = 75%", adjusts and prints the control's content to 75% of normal size.
*Added: Print.Options = "FitToPage = 2 x 3", indicates that the control's content is print to fit 2 pages wide by 3 tall.
*Added: Print.Options = "FitToPage = 2 x", indicates that the control's content is print to fit 2 pages wide by how many pages tall are required.
*Added: Print.Options = "FitToPage = x 3", indicates that the control's content is print to fit 3 pages tall to how many pages wide are required.
14.1.0.1 Apr 03, 2019
*NEW: Native Print and Print-Preview support in Microsoft Office Applications, such as Access, Excel or Word (/COM version)
*Added: Ability to print the control's content on Access's forms directly, using the DoCmd.PrintOut command.
*Added: Ability to print the control's content on Word applications, using the Word's print and print preview mainframe.
*Added: Ability to print the control's content on Excel applications, using the Excel's print and print preview mainframe.
14.0.0.1 Feb 14, 2019
*NEW: Windows 8 Touch/Pointer Support ( ability to scroll the control's content by touching and dragging )
*Added: AutoDrag property can specify distinct actions for left/right mouse buttons and short/long touch actions. For instance, AutoDrag property on exAutoDragScroll + exAutoDragScrollOnShortTouch indicates that the user can scroll the control's content by clicking the left mouse button, or by short touching the screen.
*Fixed: The control selects items to the cursor, if a short click occurs ( AutoDrag property is not empty, and the SingleSel property is False )
13.1.0.3 Dec 07, 2018
*Added: Support for ActiveX over the /NET Framework ( ActiveX control written in C#, VB/NET, Regasm - Assembly Registration Tool, CSActiveX)
*Added: The cell's caption uses the full cell's content, so <c> and <r> centers or right-aligns the cell's caption relative to the cell's available content ( by excluding the cell's check, images and pictures ), if the cell's caption format is exHTML ( Items.CellCaptionFormat property, Column.Def(exCellCaptionFormat) property )
*Added: The "check,icon,icons,picture" in the Column.Def(exCellDrawPartsOrder) property aligns the parts relative to the "caption". For instance, "check,caption,icon,icons,picture" indicates that the "check" is shown to the left of caption, while the "icon,icons,picture" are displayed to the right of the "caption". The "caption" occupies the cell's content by excluding the cell's check, images and pictures
*Fixed: Can't scroll the control if touching with fingers the buttons of the scroll bar.
13.1.0.2 Oct 29, 2018
*Added: The exFilterExclude flag on Column.FilterType property specifies if the Exclude field is checked in the drop down filter panel.
*Added: The Export method could save the control's content in ANSI or UNICODE format, based on the forth parameter of the Options argument. For instance, Export( Destination,"|||ansi") saves the control's content to destination in ANSI format. If the forth parameter is missing, the configuration of the control specifies how the Export saves the data, such as the ANSI version of the control will save as ANSI, and the UNICODE configuration as UNICODE format. If the control's Version property includes the UNICODE suffix, it indicates that the control is UNICODE, else it is ANSI.
*Added: Prevents showing the control's BackColorAlternate property on empty/non-items portion of the control, if the first two bytes of the BackColorAlternate property are &H7F/0x7F. For instance, the BackColorAlternate property on &H7FF0F0F0, shows an alternate colors for items only.
*Fixed: The Export method exports the hidden columns in the header section
13.1.0.1 Sep 27, 2018
*NEW: BMP, JPG, GIF, PNG, TIFF, EMF Support ( Ability to save the control's content to BMP, JPG, GIF, PNG, TIFF, EMF formats )
*NEW: PDF (Portable Document Format) Support, or ability to export directly the control's content to a PDF file
*Added: The CopyTo property copies the control's content to BMP, PNG, JPG, TIF or GIF format. Previously, the CopyTo property can save the control's content to EMF format only. The extension of the File argument indicates the graphical format to be saved. For instance, the CopyTo("c:\temp\snapshot.png") property saves the control's content in PNG format to snapshot.png. If File parameter provides an unknown extension, the control's content is saved in EMF format ( Enhanced Metafile Format ). The control's content is serialized as it would have no scroll bars.
*Added: The CopyTo property copies the control's content to PDF format, if the extension of the File argument indicates a pdf extension. For instance, the CopyTo("c:\temp\snapshot.pdf") property saves the control's content in PDF format to snapshot.pdf. The control's content is serialized as it would have no scroll bars. The File argument could indicates more parameters separated by | character, in the following order: filename.pdf | paper size | margins | options where the filename indicates the name of the pdf to be saved, the paper size indicates the size of the paper to be used ( by default A4 paper, 8.27 in x 11.69 in ), margins defines the paper's margins ( by default, 0.5 in 0.5 in 0.5 in 0.5 in ) and options currently can be single which indicates that whole control is saved to a single paged PDF document. For instance, the CopyTo("c:\temp\snapshot.pdf|||single") exports the control's content to single page.
13.0.0.3 Aug 15, 2018
*Added: Toggles the visible cell's check-box state if the user presses the SPACE key and the item displays a single visible check-box, no matter what column hosts it. ( FullRowSelect is exItemSel, ShowFocusRect is False and MarkSearchColumn is False )
*Fixed: Prevents toggling the cell's check-box if it is not visible, when the user presses the SPACE key ( FullRowSelect is exItemSel, ShowFocusRect is False and MarkSearchColumn is False )
*Fixed: Prevents toggling the cell's check-box, while it has no focus. ( FullRowSelect is exItemSel, ShowFocusRect is True or MarkSearchColumn is True )
*Fixed: A Click event occurs right after DblClick event.
*Fixed: The controls hangs up for a while if the user clicks contiguously any button on the control's scroll bars.
13.0.0.2 May 30, 2018
*Added: Improves the way of scrolling the control's content while moving the objects outside of the control's client area, by drag and drop, and the control's margins are close to margins of the screen/monitor.
*Fixed: The element's tooltip is not shown if the user hovers again the object, if previously its tooltip was automatically hidden by elapsing the time specified by the ToolTipPopDelay property.
*Fixed: The show message is shown on the debugger ( dbgview ), when the tooltip is about to be shown.
*Fixed: Can't drop the data as text to Microsoft Word application, if the HeaderVisible property is False ( AutoDrag property is exAutoDragCopyText )
*Fixed: The control's scroll bar is not updated while clicking contiguously any button on the control's scroll bars.
13.0.0.1 Mar 28, 2018
*NEW: MSAA, UI Automation, IAccessible support.
*Added: Microsoft Active Accessibility (MSAA) is designed to help Assistive Technology (AT) products interact with standard and custom user interface (UI) elements of an application (or the operating system), as well as to access, identify, and manipulate an application's UI elements. AT products work with MSAA enabled applications in order to provide better access for individuals who have physical or cognitive difficulties, impairments, or disabilities.
*Fixed: The OLEStartDrag event is fired differentially based on the SingleSel and AutoDrag properties as follows: True/=0, click anywhere on the item and move the mouse, True/<>0 click on item's caption and move the mouse ( click anywhere excepts the item's caption performs the AutoDrag operation, like moving the item's position, scrolling and so on ), False/=0, click anywhere on the item and wait for a short period of time ( 256 ms, click and move performs select by dragging ), False/<>0 click on item's caption and wait for a short period of time ( 256 ms, click and move performs select by dragging, click anywhere excepts the item's caption and wait for a short period of time, performs the AutoDrag operation, like moving the item's position, scrolling and so on )
*Fixed: Columns.Clear method does not release the column until the control is destroyed ( memory leak if clear and adding columns several times, /NET and /WPF versions only )
12.0.0.5 Mar 12, 2018
*NEW: Sorting and Incremental-Seach for control's Columns Floating Panel
*Added: ColumnsFloatBarSortOrder property specifies the order to display the columns on the Columns Floating Panel ( ColumnsFloatBarVisible property ). For instance, ColumnsFloatBarSortOrder property on SortAscending, makes the columns floating panel to display the columns alphabetically in ascending order.
*Fixed: The Horizontal parameter of OffsetChanged event is of short type ( 0, 1 ), instead boolean values (0, -1)
*Fixed: The cell's picture ( Items.CellPicture ) is not properly aligned when Items.CellVAlignment is set on exTop/exBottom
12.0.0.4 Feb 28, 2018
*NEW: Ability to horizontally/vertically scroll the control's content while the AutoDrag property is exAutoDragScroll (touch screen scrolling)
*Fixed: Updates the vertical/horizontal scrolling position while the user is scrolling the control's content using the AutoDrag property on exAutoDragScroll
*Fixed: Prevents starting auto-drag or selecting the items when the cursor hovers the cells of button-type (AutoDrag, SingleSel, Items.CellHasButton property )
*Fixed: The Copy/CopyTo method does not shows the expandable columns.
12.0.0.3 Dec 04, 2017
*NEW: Improvements to allow OLE Drag and Drop operations (OLEDropMode property) to work with control's AutoDrag property (/COM)
*Fixed: The user can't select a new item with a short click, only if moving the mouse, while SingleSel property is False, AutoDrag property is exAutoDragPosition... and the OLEDropMode property is OLEDropManual.
*Fixed: Can't toggle the selection state of the item from the cursor ( CTRL + short click ), while SingleSel property is False, AutoDrag property is exAutoDragPosition...
*Fixed: The user can't move the selected item to a new position ( AutoDrag property is exAutoDragPosition...), if the OLEDropMode property is OLEDropManual.
12.0.0.2 Sep 25, 2017
*Fixed: Prevents showing the control's Picture on dragging items while AutoDrag property is set
*Fixed: Shows the grid-lines / background-alternate colors for non-items part of the control while the user drags items using the AutoDrag property.
*Fixed: Can't indent the dragging item(s) when it hovers the last visible item in the list, while the AutoDrag property is exAutoDragPositionAny
*Fixed: "Visual C++ Runtime Error!" occurs if using the <fgcolor> or <bgcolor> with no indicating the color. Correct is <fgcolor RRGGBB>, instead <fgcolor>
12.0.0.1 Jul 20, 2017
*NEW: Windows 8.1 64-bit compatibility
*Added: The /COM 64-bit version is compatible with Microsoft Office Applications: Excel 2013, Access 2013,...
*Added: The /NET(/WPF) 64-bit version is compatible with Microsoft NET Framework 4, 4.5, 4.5.1, ...
*Fixed: Sometimes, the control is flickering while the user is dragging items to new positions ( AutoDrag property is exAutoDragPosition ), if the "Desktop Window Manager Session Manager" service is not running, AEOR is turn off.
*Fixed: Clicking the control's sort bar does nothing.
11.2.0.1 May 22, 2017
*NEW: Support for EBN 1002 version.
*Added: The EBN 1002 allows using skin objects with horizontal, vertical stretch and colorable/not-colorable parts of the EBNs.
*Fixed: Sometimes, the insensitive-case filter does not apply correctly to items that contain accented letters ( French Accents Characters ) like: , ... ( /COM Ansi version only )
*Fixed: The control fails to display data if a numeric filter is applied to a column, while the Exclude flag is set ( FilterList includes exShowExclude flag, FilterType is exNumeric ).
*Added: Improves the performance to load data into the control.
11.1.0.5 Mar 27, 2017
*Added: The Print and Print preview include the locked items ( Items.LockedItemCount property )
*Added: Includes the locked items, if the ShowLockedItems property is True, when Copy method is invoked.
*Added: Ability to use and show a custom tooltip using the ShowToolTip property even if any of the mouse buttons is pressed or not.
*Fixed: The year displayed on the calendar window is shown according to the locale settings ( Thai, Buddhist, Korean, Japanese, ... )
11.1.0.4 Feb 13, 2017
*NEW: Ability to specify any COLOR for the control's frame/border/appearance if using EBN objects.
*Added: The Appearance property may specify any color to apply the EBN object to define the control's border. In other words, you can define the color and the visual aspect of the control's border/appearance.
*Added: The Background(exToolTipAppearance) property may specify any color to apply to tooltip's EBN so the control's tooltip can be shown using different colors.
*Fixed: Prevents showing the tooltip's shadow if the current theme is applied on the tooltip
*Fixed: A GPF occurs if the application is started from design mode ( demo / evaluation / trial version only )
11.1.0.3 Jan 03, 2017
*NEW: Ability to specify ANY color to an EBN object, so you can use one EBN object to display it in any nuance, without embossing the shape and look of the EBN ( including transparent regions, and so on )
*Added: Significant improvements for control's performance while using a large number of EBN objects.
*Added: The EBN can be displayed using ANY color ( not only FF for rgb ). For instance, 0x1A88A5D indicates that EBN with the identifier 1 is displaying in Air Force blue color (#5D8AA8).
*Fixed: On terminal-servers (citrix), CPU-consumption varying from 1-4%, if multiple instances of the control is opened in the same time ( Exontrol.CommentWindow )
*Fixed: Sometimes, the insensitive-case filter does not apply correctly to items that contain accented letters ( French Accents Characters ) like: , ... ( /COM Ansi version only )
11.1.0.2 Nov 16, 2016
*Added: Appearance.RenderType property specifies the way colored EBN objects are displayed on the component. For instance use the RenderType on -3 (0xFFFFFFFD), no color is applied, -2, for OR-color scheme (0xFFFFFFFE), -1 (0xFFFFFFFF) for AND-color scheme, ( older EBN color schemes ). The RenderType property is 0 by default, which indicates an A-color scheme. The first significant byte indicates the transparency while the other bytes indicates the RGB value.
*Added: Shows the pictures in the control as grayed, if the Enabled property is False ( the control is disabled )
*Added: The HTML tags are case insensitive, so the < b > is equivalent with < B >
*Fixed: Printing the control with thousand of EBN objects may increase the GDI handles indefinitely.
11.1.0.1 Sep 28, 2016
*NEW: Expandable Header Support, or ability to expand the columns in the control's header
*Added: Column.ExpandColumns property specifies the list of columns to be shown when the current column is expanded.
*Added: Column.Expanded property expands or collapses the column.
*Added: Column.DisplayExpandButton property shows or hides the expanding/collapsing button in the column's header.
*Added: The LayoutChanged event is fired if changing the Column.Visible property by code.
11.0.0.2 Aug 01, 2016
*NEW: Data Binding support for /NET assembly
*Added: DataSource property gets or sets the data source that the control is displaying data for. The DataSource property can be: DataTable, DataView, DataSet, DataViewManager, any component that implements the IListSource interface, or any component that implements the IList interface.
*Added: DataMember property gets or sets the specific list in a DataSource for which the control displays a list.
*Fixed: Prevents flickering of the vertical scroll bar when a DataSource property is re-assigned.
*Fixed: Items.EnsureVisibleItem can be called between BeginUpdate/EndUpdate statement.
11.0.0.1 Jun 24, 2016
*NEW: Easy way to define the control's visual appearance in design mode, using XP-Theme elements or EBN objects.
*Added: VisualDesign property specifies the control's visual appearance. The VisualDesign value is a BASE64 encoded string, that can be defined using the control's WYSWYG Visual Design Editor, which can be invoked by selecting the control in Design Mode, select Properties, go to the VisualDesign property and click the ... in the Properties browser. The value for this property can be used on /COM, /NET or /WPF. The /WPF version does not have the inside editor, instead any you can use the /COM or /NET to generate the BASE64 encoded strings for this property.
*Fixed: On Windows 7, the user can not open the open file dialog on MSDEV using the ShowImageList property ( VC 6.0 )
*Fixed: The Template property shows no ... button in the properties browser.
*Added: Ability to use or load PNG, TIFF or WMF picture on the control's background ( Picture property for /COM version ) , using the LoadPicture predefined function of the Template property. For instance, the [.Template = "Picture = LoadPicture(`E:\picture.png`)"] OR [.Picture = .ExecuteTemplate("loadpicture(`E:\picture.png`)")] loads the PNG picture on the control's background.
10.1.0.3 Jun 08, 2016
*NEW: Subscript and Superscript implementation in HTML captions, using the <off> HTML tag
*Added: <off>, </off> built-in HTML tags defines the vertical offset to display the element, relative to the current position. This tag is inheritable. The <off pixels>, where, pixels indicates the vertical offset to be applied ). For instance, the following text displays a text with Subscript and Superscript such as: "Text <off 4>with subscript</off> <off -4>and superscript</off> support"
*Added: The <fgcolor=0000FF> and <fgcolor FF>, or <bgcolor=00FF00> and <bgcolor FF00>, so no = or full 6 hexa-digits are required to define the color to be applied
*Added: Items.FindPath method can search by case sensitive, if the control's ASCIIUpper property is "" ( empty ). Previously, the Items.FindPath method is case insensitive
*Fixed: The <font> HTML tag is not overwritten when using inside another <font> tag
*Fixed: The parts of the line with different fonts in the HTML caption are vertically aligned ( instead aligning to the font's baseline ) if the line displays a picture or an icon using the <img> HTML tag.
10.1.0.2 Apr 11, 2016
*NEW: New text decorations support for HTML captions, like outlined characters, shadow, ....
*Added: <gra>, </gra> built-in HTML tags define a gradient text ( the <gra> supports color, mode and blending, like <gra rrggbb;mode;blend>, where, rr/gg/bb represents the red/green/blue values of the ending color, 808080 if missing as gray, mode a value between 0 and 4, 1 if missing, and blend 0 or 1, 0 if missing )
*Added: <out>, </out> built-in HTML tags define a text to show with outlined characters ( the <out> supports color and width, like <out rrggbb;width>, where rr/gg/bb represents the red/green/blue values of the outline color, 808080 if missing as gray, width indicates the size of outline, 1 if missing.
*Added: <sha>, </sha> built-in HTML tags define a text with a shadow ( the <sha> supports color, width and offset, like <out rrggbb;width;offset>, where rr/gg/bb represents the red/green/blue values of the shadow color, 808080 if missing as gray, width indicates the size of shadow, 4 if missing, and offset indicates the offset from the origin to display the text's shadow, 2 if missing.
*Fixed: Extra characters are inserted in the next line if the breaking element is a picture that does not fit the current line.
10.1.0.1 Feb 29, 2016
*NEW: Inheritance for HTML attributes on multiple line ( for instance, the < b > is inherited on multiple lines, until the < /b > tag is found)
*NEW: The < font > or < img > can change the height of the HTML line, so HTML captions can display lines with different heights.
*Added: The HTML captions allow using not-nested elements to be used. (for instance the sequence "< b >1< s >23< /b >4< /s>" displays 123 in bold while the 234 are shown in strikeout )
*Added: The < c > HTML tag centers the line. Similar with < r > HTML tag.
*Fixed: The control's BackColorAlternate is shown incorrectly, after calling the Items.RemoveAllItems or Columns.Clear method
*Fixed: The tooltip associated with the column's filter ( pattern or list ), is not shown even if the Column.FilterList property includes the exEnableToolTip flag
*Fixed: 'Edit' is not at member of 'exontrol.EXTREELib.Items' ( /NET and /WPF version )
10.0.0.3 Jan 18, 2016
*NEW: Ability to save/load automatically the control's layout.
*Added: Layout property, saves or loads the control's layout, an that means, the position, width, visibility, sort order of the control's columns and the scroll position, filtering, selection, and so on. The Layout property saves/loads almost all properties of the columns, that user can change at runtime, using the control's user interface.
*Fixed: Ignores the ending HTML tags, if they are not used previously ( for instance, the < /b > is not displayed in the sequence "ABC< /b >" )
*Added: Increases the performance of parsing HTML captions.
10.0.0.2 Nov 18, 2015
*Added: Description(exColumnsFloatBar) specifies the caption to be shown on control's Columns float bar.
*Added: Background(exColumnsFloatBackColor) property specifies the background color for the Columns float bar.
*Added: Background(exColumnsFloatScrollBackColor) property specifies the background color for the scroll bars in the Columns float bar.
*Added: Background(exColumnsFloatScrollPressBackColor) property specifies the background color for the scroll bars in the Columns float bar, when the user clicks the scroll bars.
*Added: Background(exColumnsFloatScrollUp) property specifies the visual appearance of the up scroll bar.
*Added: Background(exColumnsFloatScrollDown) property specifies the visual appearance of the down scroll bar.
*Added: Background(exColumnsFloatAppearance) property specifies the visual appearance for the frame/borders of the Column's float bar.
*Added: Background(exColumnsFloatCaptionBackColor) property specifies the visual appearance of the caption's background, if the Background(exColumnsFloatAppearance) property is specified.
*Added: Background(exColumnsFloatCaptionForeColor) property specifies the foreground color for the caption, if the Background(exColumnsFloatAppearance) property is specified.
*Added: Background(exColumnsFloatCloseButton) property specifies the visual appearance for the closing button, if the Background(exColumnsFloatAppearance) property is specified.
10.0.0.1 Sep 28, 2015
*NEW: Ability to select the visible/hidden columns, using the UI float bar
*Added: ColumnsFloatBarVisible property specifies whether columns float bar is visible, so the user can drag and drop columns, to make then visible or hidden.
*Added: Column.AllowDragging property indicates if the column may be displayed to Columns float bar, so the Columns float bar displays columns with the Visible property on False, and AllowDragging property on True. Using the AllowDragging property, you can still have internals columns, that can not be visible for the user.
*Added: The Columns float bar supports incremental search, so typying characters will start looking for a column with specified caption.
*Added: Background(exCursorHoverColumn) on -1 ( 0xFFFFFFFF), prevents changing the column's visual appearance when the cursor hovers the column's header.
9.2.0.2 Sep 09, 2015
*Added: Export(Destination,Options) exports the control's data to a CSV format. The Options parameter supports three fields separated by | character, where the first field could be all, vis, sel or chk, to export all, just visible, selected or checked items [all-if missing], the second field indicates the column to be exported, [all visible columns-if missing], and the third field indicates the character to separate the fields inside each exported line [tab character-if missing]. The Destination parameter indicates the file to be created where exported date should be saved. For instance, Export( Destination,"sel|0,1|; ") exports the cells from columns 0, 1 from the selected items, to a CSV using the ; character as a field separator. If Destination is empty or missing, the Export returns the result as a string.
*Added: CopyTo method exports the control's view to an EMF file, or to an one dimensional array of bytes ( byte[] ).
*Added: EnsureOnSort property specifies whether the control ensures that the focused item fits the control's client area, when the user sorts the items.
*Fixed: The grid lines are dotted if print and print preview the control, even if the control's GridLineStyle is set on exGridLinesSolid
9.2.0.1 Jul 05, 2015
*NEW: Auto-numbering support
*Added: The Column.FormatColumn and Items.FormatCell properties support auto-numbering functions as index, pos, apos, opos, rindex, rpos, rapos and ropos
*Added: The value formatting methods support dateS predefined function which gets a date based on the format "MM/dd/yyyy HH:mm:ss", no matter of regional settings compared with the date function.
*Fixed: The 0 after decimal separator is ignored in constant elements of computed fields or conditional expressions.
9.1.0.2 Apr 20, 2015
*Added: Column.FilterList with FilterListEnum.exRootItems flag indicates that the drop down filter list includes only root items ( items with no parent items )
*Added: Background(exSortBarLinkColor) property indicates the color or the visual appearance of the links between columns in the control's sort bar.
*Fixed: A column gets resized if clicking the control's sort bar between two columns
*Fixed: The control scrolls to the top of the list, if the user clicks an unselectable item ( Items.SelectableItem property ).
9.1.0.1 Feb 25, 2015
*NEW: Ability to displays the matching items only, no parent or child, if no match
*Added: The FilterInclude property on exMatchingItemsOnly, specifies that the control displays the items that match the filter so no parent or child is displayed if no match. For instance, if your control displays a hierarchy the parent or child items are not included, if they do not match the filter. You can use the TreeColumnIndex property on -1 or Indent property on 0, to display no +/- buttons or hierarchy lines.
*Added: The Items.FormatCell or Column.FormatColumn property supports %0, %1, ... which indicates the values on the column with the index 0, 1, and so on... For instance the, "dbl(%0) + dbl(%1)" indicates the sum between of first two cells, which is similar with a computed field per cell. In other words, you can have computed field per cells, using the Items.FormatCell, not only using the Column.ComputedField property which is applied to the entire column. In conclusion, the Items.FormatCell or Column.FormatColumn supports value, and %variable, where the value is the current value, while %variable indicate the value on specified column.
*Added: Displays the column's filter button in the sort bar, if the column is not visible.
*Added: Column.FilterList with FilterListEnum.exLeafItems flag indicates that the drop down filter list includes only leaf items ( items with no child items )
9.0.0.4 Jan 07, 2015
*NEW: Ability to specify padding for cells in the column
*Added: Column.Def(exCellPaddingLeft) specifies the left padding (space) of the cells within the column. The similar options are: exCellPaddingRight, exCellPaddingTop and exCellPaddingBottom to control the right, top and bottom padding.
*Added: Column.Def(exHeaderPaddingLeft) specifies the left padding (space) of the column's header. The similar options are: exHeaderPaddingRight, exHeaderPaddingTop and exHeaderPaddingBottom to control the right, top and bottom padding.
*Added: Items.VisibleItemCount property returns negative value, if filtering is applied on the control ( the control has a filter applied ). The negative value represents a formula of -( count + 1 ), where count indicates the number of matching items. For instance, if the Items.VisibleItemCount property returns -1, the count of matching items is 0, if -2, 1 matching item, if -3, 2 matching items, and so on.
9.0.0.3 Dec 17, 2014
*NEW: Ability to format numbers
*Added: The 'format' binary operator gets the value as formatted number. For instance "value format '2|.|3|," displays the value with 2 digits, the decimal separator being the . character, and the integer part is grouping by 3 digits, while the separator for grouping is , character. The Column.FormatColumn, Column.ComputedField , Items.FormatCell, ConditionalFormat.Expression can use the 'format' operator.
*Added: Items.ItemBackColor(0) property changes the background color for all items.
*Added: Items.ClearItemBackColor(0) property clears the background color for all items.
*Added: The Button parameter of MouseMove event can be 4 which indicates that the middle mouse button ( wheel button ) is pressed.
9.0.0.2 Sep 17, 2014
*Added: Items.ItemHeight(0) property changes the height for all items.
*Added: Items.ExpandItem(0) property expands or collapses all items.
*Fixed: The control is still in updating mode, if the EndUpdate method is called several times.
*Fixed: The 'format' operator is not working properly on Spanish, German, Romanian, ... where the '.' character is using for grouping, instead decimal separator.
9.0.0.1 Sep 03, 2014
*NEW: Support for 'array' or 'split' operators in formatting/computed expressions
*Added: The 'array' binary operator gets the element from an array giving its index ( 0-based), or empty if not found. For instance the "month(value)-1 array ('J','F','M','A','M','Jun','J','A','S','O','N','D')" returns the initials of the months.
*Added: The 'A split B' binary operator splits the A using the B as separator, and returns the array of values being found. For instance, the "weekday(value) array 'Sun Mon Thu Wed Thu Fri Sat' split ' '" gets the weekday as string.
*Added: Increases performances by optimization the expression. For instance, the -1 + 2/1.3, gets directly the result instead computing at runtime.
*Fixed: Any + or - operation after a 'case' statement into a formatting/computing expression fails. Properties such as Column.FormatColumn, Column.FormatedColumn, and so on.
8.0.0.5 Aug 25, 2014
*NEW: Ability to highlight the position from the cursor while performing OLE Drag and Drop ( the dropping source is not a known object )
*Added: Background(exListOLEDropPosition) property specifies the visual appearance of the dropping position inside the control, when the control is implied in a OLE Drag and Drop operation.
*Added: VFP\InnerTree sample to show how you can handle events of the inner tree control
*Fixed: The ColIndex parameter of the Change event is -1
8.0.0.4 Aug 11, 2014
*NEW: Ability to specify the style of the control's gridlines horizontal or vertical
*Added: GridLineStyle property specifies the style for the gridlines being shown in the control.
*Fixed: The control fails if loading data several times with no using the BeginUpdate/EndUpdate methods.
*Fixed: Unloading the control may take longer if the control loads hundreds of columns.
8.0.0.3 Jul 02, 2014
*NEW: HOT tracking/hover of the rows/items
*Added: HotBackColor property retrieves or sets a value that indicates the hot-tracking background color.
*Added: HotForeColor property retrieves or sets a value that indicates the hot-tracking foreground color.
*Added: The control's content is smoothly scrolled if the AutoDrag property is exAutoDragScroll, and the user clicks the Top or Bottom scroll buttons.
8.0.0.2 Mar 26, 2014
*NEW: Scroll Line by Line support allows smooth scrolling when displaying items of different heights.
*Added: Ability to vertically scroll the control's content line by line, if the ScrollBySingleLine property is True, such the Items.FirstVisibleItem can be partially visible. Previously, the FirstVisibleItem can not be viewed partially visible. The smooth scrolling has effect if pressing the vertical up or down scroll buttons.
*Added: Shows NO cursor if the smooth scrolling by drag is not possible
*Added: Erases the header's background with the control's BackColor, when the control's BackColorHeader property reffers an EBN object.
8.0.0.1 Mar 10, 2014
*NEW: AutoDrag or ability to change automatically the rows position, copy and paste to OLE compliant application, and more.
*Added: AutoDrag on exAutoDragNone, by default, disables the AutoDrag feature.
*Added: AutoDrag on exAutoDragPosition, allows items to be dragged from a position to another, but not outside of its group.
*Added: AutoDrag on exAutoDragPositionKeepIndent, allows items to be dragged to any position or to any parent, while the dragging object keeps its indentation.
*Added: AutoDrag on exAutoDragPositionAny, allows items to be dragged be dragged to any position or to any parent, with no restriction.
*Added: AutoDrag on exAutoDragCopy, allows selected items to be dragged to a target application, and paste them as image or text.
*Added: AutoDrag on exAutoDragCopyText, allows selected items to be dragged to a target application, and paste them as text.
*Added: AutoDrag on exAutoDragCopyImage, allows selected items to be dragged to a target application, and paste them as image only.
*Added: AutoDrag on exAutoDragCopySnapShot, allows the current view to be dragged to a target application, and paste them as a snap shot.
*Added: AutoDrag on exAutoDragScroll, the component scrolls its content by clicking the object and dragging to a new position.
7.1.0.2 Mar 06, 2014
*Added: Prevents updating the UI parts of the control while moving or resizing UI objects ( detect small mouse movement or large mouse movement )
*Fixed: Sometimes, the dragging operation is not stopped if the user releases the mouse outside of the control
*Fixed: Prevents firing the mouse events while the control is scrolled or inside UI objects are moved or resized.
*Fixed: Prevents showing the default appearance of the exVSUpper/exHSUpper/exVSLower/exHSLower, if the exVSBack/exHSBack is set
*Fixed: Prevents expanding items with the Items.HasChildren property On True, if the Column.FilterList property includes the FilterListEnum.exRootItems
7.1.0.1 Jan 30, 2014
*NEW: Scroll Extension which allows you to shrink the space used by control's scroll bars, and still using the scroll bars using the extension which shows up outside of the control's client area.
*Added: The ScrollPartEnum.exExtentThumbPart indicates the thumb-extension of the scroll bar. The ScrollPartVisible(Bar,exExtentThumbPart) on True enables the scroll bar extension.
*Added: Background(exVSThumbExt) specifies the visual appearance of the thumb-extension, for the vertical scroll bar. The similar values are exVSThumbExtP, exVSThumbExtD, exVSThumbExtH, when the thumb-extension is pressed, disabled or the cursor hovers it.
*Added: Background(exHSThumbExt) specifies the visual appearance of the thumb-extension, for the horizontal scroll bar. The similar values are exHSThumbExtP, exHSThumbExtD, exHSThumbExtH, when the thumb-extension is pressed, disabled or the cursor hovers it.
*Fixed: Apparently, The Column.FilterType property returns uninitialized value, and so, a column of DateType can not be filtered using the UI.
7.0.0.8 Jan 03, 2014
*Added: Ability to scroll the control's list when selecting by dragging ( SingleSel property is False )
*Fixed: The Background(exDragDropListTop) or Background(exDragDropListBottom) visual appearance is not exchanged when the cursor hovers the top or bottom side of the control.
*Fixed: In MS Access, can't use the F2 key to unselect the current edit field.
*Fixed: In MS Access, the control loses its data once the Visible property is set on False or when the control is hosted to a tab control, and user changes the pages.
7.0.0.7 Oct 28, 2013
*Added: Case-Sensitive support for filtering, if the Column.FilterType property includes the exFilterDoCaseSensitive (256). This flag can be combined with exFilter or exPattern to perform a case-sensitive filtering. By default, the filtering is case-insensitive, while the exFilterDoCaseSensitive flag is not included in the Column.FilterType property.
*Fixed: By default, the filtering is case sensitive for non-english characters ( russian, umlauts, ... ), instead case insensitive.
*Fixed: The lower, upper, proper predefined functions in expression properties like ComputedField, returns wrong characters for Cyrillic characters.
*Fixed: The incremental search does not highlight Cyrillic characters.
7.0.0.6 Oct 07, 2013
*Added: TemplateDef property allows defining inside variables for the Template feature ( available for /COM only, and useful to assign properties with multiple parameters, which is not supported in dBASE )
*Added: The Event( EventID) event occurs once the control fires an event (available for /COM version only)
*Fixed: "Error executing code: FormActiveXControl (data source), method ... called with invalid parameters" on Dynamics AX environment is fired, if the application handles events with parameters passed by reference. On X++ you should use the Event event and EventParams method to handle this exception. The X++ is not able to handle the events with parameters passed by reference.
*Fixed: The control fails if you click and hold the left mouse button on the thumb of the scrollbar itself and drag up and down and then click the right mouse button whilst the left button is still pressed
*Fixed: In MS Access, AutoKeys macro for F2 key does not work while the control gets the focus
7.0.0.5 Aug 28, 2013
*Added: Shadow effect for the drop down filter window, including the drop down calendar window, ( Column.DisplayFilterButton )
*Added: Background(exBackColorFilter) property specifies the background color for the drop down filter window.
*Added: Background(exForeColorFilter) property specifies the foreground color for the drop down filter window.
*Added: The eXPropertiesList control may browse the EBN objects, on color properties ( valid for /COM version ).
*Fixed: A black zone is shown once the filter list is dropped ( if BackColorHeader property refers an EBN object )
7.0.0.4 Jul 08, 2013
*Fixed: The control's filter is applied only if the user changes the UI drop down filter. ( ESC cancels the curent selection, so no filter is applied )
*Fixed: Restores the column's filter when the Column.FilterOnType property is True.
*Fixed: The drop down filter is closed, if clicking the the filter's patternd field, instead moving the caret.
*Fixed: The use can not select multiple items in the drop down list, if using the SPACE key, while the filter's pattern is visible
*Fixed: The height of the control's filter bar is not updated if the control's FilterBarHeight property is negative.
7.0.0.3 May 22, 2013
*NEW: Ability to select multiple items in the drop down filter list, using check-boxes.
*Added: FilterListEnum.exShowCheckBox flag indicates that each item in the drop down filter-list shows a checkbox, allowing to select multiple filters by clicking the checkbox ( or pressing the SPACE key ).
*Added: FilterListEnum.exHideCheckSelect flag indicates whether the check-box items shows the filter's list background, instead as selected.
*Added: FilterListEnum.exSingleSel flag indicates that the user can not select multiple items in the drop down filter window.
*Added: FilterListEnum.exShowFocusItem flag draws a rectangle in the style used to indicate that the item in the filter-list that has the focus.
*Added: FilterListEnum.exShowPrevSelOpaque flag indicates whether the previously selection is showing opaque, instead semi-transparent.
*Added: FilterListEnum.exEnableToolTip flag indicates whether the filter-list's tooltip is shown when user hovers the list. ( by default, the filter-list's tool tip is not enabled )
7.0.0.2 Apr 22, 2013
*NEW: Ability to filter items by dates using an UI interactive calendar control in the drop down filter window ( is, is before, is after, range of dates ).
*Added: The calendar control is shown in the drop down filter window, if the Column.DisplayFilterDate property is True, and Column.DisplayFilterPattern property is False.
*Added: If the Column.Filter property lists a single date, the control filters items that match exactly the date ( no TO clause included ).
*Fixed: The control's filterbar is visible if there is a column with Column.FilterType on exDate, even if the Column.Filter is empty.
7.0.0.1 Feb 27, 2013
*NEW: Ability to exclude the items when filtering by using a UI checkbox Exclude in the drop down filter window.
*Added: FilterListEnum.exShowExclude flag indicates whether the drop down filter window shows or hides the Exclude checkbox.
*Added: Description.exFilterBarExclude specifies the 'Exclude' caption being displayed in the drop down filter.
*Added: FilterListEnum.exShowBlanks flag indicates whether the drop down filter includes the (Blank) and (NonBlanks) items.
*Added: FilterListEnum.exNoItems value indicates whether the drop down filter should include no items from the control.
6.0.1.4 Jan 21, 2013
*Added: "Property let procedure not defined and property get procedure did not return an object" runtime-error '451' occurs in VB if calling to assign a picture using its reference when using the Set .HTMLPicture statement.
*Fixed: The control may fail if refilling with data when using no BeginUpdate/EndUpdate methods.
*Fixed: The grid line between top locked part unlocked area of the control is not shown.
*Fixed: Sometimes, the data can't be dropped to control, if any of the Background(exDragDropListTop), Background(exDragDropListBottom), Background(exDragDropListOver) or Background(exDragDropListBetween) property is used ( not zero, /COM version only ).
6.0.1.3 Dec 21, 2012
*Added: The visual appearance of the item being dragged is shown outside of the control too, when OLEDropMode property is exOLEDropManual.
*Added: The items can be scrolled during OLE Drag and Drop, if the cursor is keep for a while on the first or last visible item ( OLEDropMode property is exOLEDropManual ).
*Added: The items can be expanded during OLE Drag and Drop, if the cursor is keep for a while on +/- button associated with the items ( OLEDropMode property is exOLEDropManual ).
*Added: The /COM version can be dropped to the eXPropertiesList control as an object.
6.0.1.2 Nov 05, 2012
*Added: Translucent effect when performing drag and drop of columns within the control's header
*Added: The user can scroll the control's header ( if possible ) while dragging the columns outside of the control's area to left or to right
*Fixed: Use the current cusor position while dragging a column to determine the new position, instead the center of the dragged columm.
*Fixed: Moving the column by dragging is slow on Windows Vista/7
6.0.1.1 Sep 19, 2012
*Added: The Template or ExecuteTemplate properties may contain several commands separated by ; not only cariage returns. For instance the Template = "dim p;p=CreateObject(`Exontrol.Print`);p.PrintExt=Me;p.Preview()" calls the exontrol's eXPrint to open the contrl's print and print preview.
*Fixed: The Copy method fails if creating EMF larger than 31720 pixels, or aprox 11.18 m
*Fixed: Changing the ShowImageList property in design mode fails, if the component is hosted in a VC++ 2005, 2008 and 2010 application ( available for /COM only )
*Fixed: Removes the tooltip's shadow if time to show the tooltip is less than 250 ms, as on Windows 7, the tooltip may be displayed slower.
6.0.1.0 June 06, 2012
*Fixed: Removing a column fails, if the items are filtered.
*Fixed: By default, the FilterBarPrompt is case sensitive for non-english characters ( russian, umlauts, ... ), instead case insensitive.
*Fixed: The control fails, if the Items.RemoveItem is called twice on the same handle.
*Fixed: The control may fail if using merged cells in a code with no BeginUpdate/EndUpdate context.
6.0.0.9 May 07, 2012
*Added: Sorts the column by string using the user-default ANSI code page obtained from the operating system ( Fixed: German umlauts are lexicographic ordered )
*Added: Items.ItemMinHeight property limits the height of the item when resizing.
*Fixed: The Items.ItemMaxHeight property can not be set on -1.
*Fixed: The sorting of items is lost, once the filter is cleared.
6.0.0.8 Mar 07, 2012
*NEW: Defines new type of hierarchy lines such as exGroupLines, exGroupLinesInside or exGroupLinesOutside (LinesAtRoot property)
*Added: Prevents selecting only visible items when performing incremental searching ( filtered items, ExpandOnSearch, Items.ItemHeight )
*Added: The parent item does not indent the children with Indent property, if the LinesAtRoot property is exGroupLinesOutside, and all of them are flat. A flat item is an item contains no child items.
*Added: Ensures that the focused item fits the control's client area, if possible, if the filter is applied.
6.0.0.7 Feb 13, 2012
*NEW: Ability to format individual cells using predefined functions as currency, short date, long date and other several options, including HTML formatting.
*Added: Items.FormatCell property specifies the custom format to display the cell's content, by ignoring the column's format ( Column.FormatColumn property )
*Fixed: Only two items get selected when user selects multiple items by dragging an empty rectangle.
*Fixed: The get_HTMLPicture property gets empty object on the /NET version.
6.0.0.6 Jan 30, 2012
*NEW: Ability to specify unsortable items.
*Added: Items.SortableItem property specifies whether the item may change its position while sorting. An unsortable item does not change its position while sort is performed.
*Added: The GetItems(1) method retrieves an one-dimensional array that holds the handles of the items in the control as they are displayed ( sorted, filtered, ... ), and so the first element in the array ( item at position 0 ) indicates the handle of the first item in the control which can be different than the Items.FirstVisibleItem if the control is vertically scrolled. [ The GetItems(0) method gets the items ( the values ) in the control. ]
*Fixed: The colors for cells or items being selected are ignored in the print and print preview
6.0.0.5 Nov 23, 2011
*Added: The SelBackMode property on exTransparent shows the selection using a semi-transparent color.
*Added: The selected rows loses the colors for cells ( CellBackColor, ItemBackColor ) when selecting ( SelBackMode = exTransparent )
*Fixed: The cells with CellBackColor set, shows no solid colors, if the SetBackMode property is exGrid.
*Fixed: The Column(0).Position = 1 does not work, while the Column(1).Position = 0 works for a control with 2 columns.
6.0.0.4 Nov 02, 2011
*Added: DividerAlignmentEnum.DividerBoth indicates that item shows top and bottom divider lines.
*Fixed: The DividerAlignmentEnum.DividerCenter prevents painting the divider over the cell's content
*Fixed: Adjusts the hierarchy lines between rows when they contain divider items (Items.ItemDivider).
*Fixed: The content of a divider item can not be centered if the cell being displayed belongs to the hierarchy column
6.0.0.3 Sep 14, 2011
*NEW: PNG support for picture properties.
*Added: PNG, TIFF, EXIF or WMF image format support.
*Added: Items.ExpandItem(0) property expands or collapses all items.
*Fixed: The mouse or key events could be fired while user scrolls the control's content.
6.0.0.2 Aug 30, 2011
*Fixed: Prevents firing the Click or RClick event when the user clicks the control's header bar, so the Click/RClick event is fired only if clicked the items/chart area.
*Fixed: The FocusItem property retrieves the previously focused item during the Click event, if the control's SingleSel property is False.
*Fixed: The Click event is fired before SelectionChanged event, if the control's SingleSel property is False.
*Fixed: Sometimes, the SelectionChanged event is fired twice, if the control's SingleSel property is False.
6.0.0.1 June 27, 2011
*Fixed: The <br> tag is ignored in the Column.HTMLCaption, while the HeaderSingleLine property is False ( by default ).
*Fixed: In MS Access, accessing a column using the Item property of the Columns by passing a variable fails, if not using the CStr function.
*Fixed: The user is not able to resize the columns if "Switch primary and secondary buttons" is checked.
*Fixed: The SelectionChanged event is fired every time the user clicks outside items area, if the SingleSel property is False.
5.1.0.4 May 11, 2011
*NEW: Ability to draw right-to-left for Hebrew, Arabic and other RTL languages ( flips the order of the columns, alignments, vertical scroll bar, ... )
*NEW: Ability to reorder the drawing parts ( checkbox, radio buttons, icons, ... ) in the cell. By default, the cell shows the parts in the following order: checkbox/radio button, icon, icons, picture, caption.
*Added: Column.Def(exCellDrawPartsOrder) property specifies the order of the drawing parts. Use this property to specify the order of the drawing parts within the column
*Added: RightToLeft property indicates whether the component should draw right-to-left for RTL languages such as scrollbars on the left side, alignments, and so on
5.1.0.3 March 03, 2011
*NEW: The 'in' function in computing formulas increases significantly the time to evaluate it. For instance, if you have the formula such us 'value = 1 or value = 2 or value = 22 or value = 45 or value = 12', ... you can have the 'value in (1, 2, 22, 45, 12)'. In other words, if the set contains about 1000 elements for instance, the evaluator takes max 8 checking to determine if the specified value fits the set, else requires 1000 checking is required to verify each or condition in the sequence.
*NEW: The 'case()' function includes any number of case instances. A 'case' instance may contains a statement that is executed once the value is found in the 'case' collection. The 'case' unary operator gets the value being specified by respective statement or the value itself. For instance, the 'int(value) case (1 : value + 1 ; 2 : value * 2)' specifies that if the value is 1 the statement returns 2, while if the value is 2, the statement returns 4, and for any other value it returns the value itself. Also the 'case()' can be used with 'switch' as for instance "%0 switch ('not found',11,22,33,44,55) case (11 : %0 + %1 ; 22 : %1 * 1.19; 33 : len(str(%0)))" indicates that if the value in the column 0 is 11, the result will be the sum between first column and second column, else if the value is 22 the result is the second column value multiplied by 1.19, else if the value is 33 the return is the length of the value in the first cell, if the value is 44 or 55, the result is 44 or 55, while for any other value the result will be 'not found'. The 'in', 'switch' and 'case()' increases significantly the speed to evaluate constant values instead using 'and', 'or' operators to build complicated formulas that could be time consuming.
*NEW: The 'switch' function similar with 'in' function retrieves the value being found in the collection, or a default value if the element is not found. The first element in the collection is the result being returned by 'switch' function when the value is not found in the collection, else the 'switch' returns the value itself. All elements in the collection MUST be constant values. For instance, the "value switch ('not found', 11, 23, 45, 129, 123,99)" means that if the value is 33, the 'not found' string is returned, while if the value is 45, the switch returns 45.
*Added: The 'in', 'switch' and 'case()' functions available for properties such us: Column.ComputedField, Column.FormatColumn, ConditionalFormat.Expression
*Fixed: The second parameter (Parent) of PutItems method is ignored ( /NET and /WPF version )
5.1.0.2 Jan 24, 2011
*Added: FilterBarPrompt property specifies the HTML caption to be displayed when the filter pattern is missing.
*Added: FilterBarPromptColumns property specifies the list of columns to be used when filtering using the prompt. By default, the filter prompt uses all columns.
*Added: FilterBarPromptPattern property specifies the pattern for the filter prompt.
*Fixed: Rarely, right clicking while dragging the thumb ( left button is still pressed ) of the scroll bar fires an access violation.
5.1.0.1 Jan 12, 2011
*NEW: Filter Prompt support ( The filter prompt feature allows you to filter the items as you type while the filter bar is visible on the bottom part of the list area )
*Added: FilterBarPromptVisible property shows or hides the filter prompt
*Added: FilterBarPromptType property specifies the type of the filter prompt
*Added: The FilterBarCaption property supports HTML format.
*Fixed: Keeps the focused item on the previously selected if it is still visible, after applying the filter.
5.0.1.7 Dec 03, 2010
*Added: The Background(exDragDropList...) may be called during the OLEDragOver event to specify the image on the item from the cursor while drag and drop operation is performed.
*Fixed: Displays the first line of the HTML text, if it does not fit entirely the field
*Fixed: Ignores the <br> or carriage return sequences in HTML text, if the SingleLine property is True
*Fixed: The computed field result can not be get using the Items.CellCaption property.
5.0.1.6 Oct 13, 2010
*Added: The Background(exDragDropAlign) specifies the alignment of the drag and drop image relative to the cursor.
*Added: Updates the first day of the week as your regional settings, when selecting a range of dates in the control's filter bar. ( Column.DisplayFilterDate )
*Fixed: Avoids clearing the filter pattern in the Filter For field, if the user presses the Up or Down keys ( Column.FilterOnType )
*Fixed: Closes the filter when the user presses the Up, Down or Enter key ( Column.FilterOnType )
5.0.1.5 Sep 15, 2010
*Added: (globbing) The filter allows using [] for group of characters. The "[CB]at" matches Cat or Bat but not cat or mat.
*Fixed: The control looks for the first match instead looking for all possibilities, if the pattern contains more than one * character (any)
*Fixed: The filter is not showing any object, if it contains more than one pattern.
*Fixed: Prevents flickering the image being dragged over the first visible item and the current vertical position is 0.
5.0.1.4 Aug 16, 2010
*Added: The Columns.Item(Caption) or Columns(Caption) is case insensitive.
*Fixed: The Columns.Item property retrieves nothing, if the column is not found, instead firing an error.
*Fixed: Removes the Scroll event definition from the /NET assembly.
*Fixed: The MDI form requires an extra click to activate it, once a modeless dialog is closed. The dialog contains a VB6 UserControl that hosts the control. ATL3.0 BUG
*Fixed: The scroll bar's thumb position is not updated while scrolling using the mouse ( /WPF version ).
5.0.1.3 June 07, 2010
*Added: Updates the default visual aspect of the left, right, top, and bottom arrows to navigate the months/years.
*Fixed: Shows the selected cells only when drag and drop if the control's FullRowSelect property is exRectSel
*Fixed: Shows inner cells as disabled if the owner column is disabled.
*Fixed: Loading second time a huge list of items could be slower ( visible for thousands of items )
*Fixed: The application fails, when cursor hovers a column that was added with empty caption, but with the Column.HTMLCaption property set on non-empty content.
5.0.1.2 Apr 21, 2010
*Added: Shows the images of the items being dragged using semi-transparent colors.
*Fixed: Centers the image of the items to be dragged during the drag and drop operation
*Fixed: The /NET Assembly does not update at runtime the properties saved in design-mode.
*Fixed: The Items.RemoveAllItems method is safe to be called during an event.
5.0.1.1 Mar 15, 2010
*Added: The Template feature supports hexa values being specified using format 0x prefix.
*Added: Changing the way the colors are being applied to EBN objects.
*Added: Improves the performances when parsing the HTML formats.
*Fixed: The /NET Assembly shows no information in design mode, such as version of the control.
*Fixed: Sometimes, removing an item that hosts an inside control fails.
5.0.1.0 Jan 06, 2010
*Fixed: The 64-bit version of the control fires "System.AccessViolationException: Attempted to read or write protected memory. This is often an indication that other memory is corrupt" when user tries to resizes a column by clicking the control's header.
*Fixed: The /NET assembly shows a black frame when the parent form changes its parent using the MDIParent property.
*Fixed: The associated ContextMenuStrip component is not shown when right clicking the /NET Assembly component.
5.0.0.9 Dec 17, 2009
*Added: Updates the visual aspect of the control's tooltip based on the current theme, if active, and not using EBN object for its appearance.
*Fixed: The Items.RemoveAllItems method releases the occupied memory too.
*Fixed: On Windows XP skinned objects ( EBN objects ) are not shown on virtual printers such as PDF, and so on.
5.0.0.8 Nov 23, 2009
*NEW: Ability to change the parameters passed by reference of the control's events for environments that does not support events with parameters by reference, such as uniPaas 1.5 (formerly known as eDeveloper), DBase, and so on
*Added: EventParam() property accesses a specified parameter of the current event. This property has effect only during an event, and can be used to change or retrieve a specified parameter of the current event
*Added: EventParam(-1) retrieves the number of parameters that can be accessed.
*Fixed: The /NET assembly prints the first page only, even if multiple pages are required.
5.0.0.7 Oct 29, 2009
*Added: mod operator divides two numbers and returns only the remainder. This is valid for computed, conditional expressions.
*Added: Items.FindItemData property looks for objects too, not only for strings, integers, floating points (VarCmp).
*Fixed: In the /NET Assembly, the Column.FilterType property always retrieves exAll.
*Fixed: Sometime, the control fails when destroying, when using threads in VS C++ for filling or removing items in the control
5.0.0.6 Sep 21, 2009
*Added: The filter on type operation is called after 1 second the last character is typed, to avoid calling the Filter operation too many times.
*Added: The FilterChaning event is called before applying the filter, so you can count the time to filter the items.
*Added: Increases significantly the speed to filter items using the * (any character) pattern ( FilterOnType )
*Fixed: If the Column.FilterOnType property is True, the filter is applied twice so the time is doubled.
5.0.0.5 August 05, 2009
*NEW: Ability to format cells using predefined functions as currency, short date, long date and other several options, including HTML formatting
*Added: Column.FormatColumn property formats the cell's value based on the specified formula and displays the result on the cell. For instance the "len(value) ? currency(value) else ``" displays the column using the current format for currencies, for all cells that actually contains any data
*Added: Immediate if conditional statement for Column.ComputedField or ConditionalFormat.Expression properties ie len %0 = 0 ? "empty" else %0 displays empty string for empty cells!
*Added: Support for variables for reducing computations during Column.ComputedField or ConditionalFormat.Expression properties, ie 0:=value, meanse value stored to the variable 0, and =:0 means gets the value of the variable 0
*Fixed: The partial check feature works for visible items only.
5.0.0.4 July 09, 2009
*NEW: ConditionalFormat objects support operations with strings and dates, not only numbers
*Added: ConditionalFormat.Expression property supports new functions for numbers as: int, round, floor, abs
*Added: ConditionalFormat.Expression property supports new functions for strings as: startwith, endwith, contains, len, lower, upper, proper. The + operator concaternates two strings.
*Added: ConditionalFormat.Expression property supports new functions for dates as: year, month, day, yearday, weekday, hour, min, sec, shortdate, longdate, time
*Added: ConditionalFormat.Expression property supports other conversion functions such as str, dbl, date
*Fixed: The control fails when no match is found, if the ExpandOnSearch property is True and custom filtering is performed during keys events ( call ApplyFilter during the KeyPress event ).
5.0.0.3 June 03, 2009
*NEW: Computed fields supports operations strings, dates or numbers as in previously versions.
*Added: Computed fields supports new functions for numbers as: int, round, floor, abs
*Added: Computed fields supports new functions for strings as: startwith, endwith, contains, len, lower, upper, proper. The + operator concaternates two strings.
*Added: Computed fields supports new functions for dates as: year, month, day, yearday, weekday, hour, min, sec, shortdate, longdate, time
*Added: Computed fields supports other conversion functions such as str, dbl, date
*Fixed: In the /NET Assembly, the accelerator key on the dialog/form may be called without pressing the ALT key.
5.0.0.2 May 19, 2009
*Added: Items.VisibleItemCount property specifies the number of visible items.
*Added: Column.Def(exHeaderBackColor) property defines the column's header background color.
*Added: Column.Def(exHeaderForeColor) property defines the column's header foreground color.
*Fixed: Avoids calling the ShowFilter method while the filter drop down window is still visible.
5.0.0.1 April 27, 2009
*Added: 64-bit support.
*Added: Signing the /NET Assembly with a strong name (AssemblyName: exontrol.extree, PublicKeyToken=ae91cf9962a2c323)
*Fixed: The IDE flickers when the component is placed on a form, due ShowImageList property that creates a hidden top-most window, to store the icons.
4.2.1.3 March 25, 2009
*NEW: Ability to display semi-transparent skins using different colors ie 0x1FF0000 displays the skin with more blue color, or 0x10000FF displays the skin using more blue color.
*Added: PutItems method inserts an array of objects into the control. ( /NET Assembly )
*Added: GetItems method retrieves the control's items into an array. ( /NET Assembly )
*Fixed: The eXPrint component can't display skined objects.
4.2.1.2 February 17, 2009
*NEW: Ability to load or save hierarchies (not just flat tables) using the PutItems/GetItems methods
*Added: The Parent parameter of the PutItems method indicates the handle where the array is being inserted.
*Added: The PutItems method takes arrays that may hold child items too ie Array("Parent",Array("Child 1","Child 2")) adds a parent item and two child items.
*Added: The GetItems method retrieves the collection of items as they are displayed, including the child items as new arrays inside, Options parameter is not 0
*Fixed: The path to load pictures from, is limited to 127 characters.
4.2.1.1 January 7, 2009
*Added: Compatible with the Data Execution Prevention (DEP). (SpecialBuild:8836)
*Added: Drag-and-Drop support for the /NET version. AllowDrop property, DragEnter, DragDrop events, and so on.
*Fixed: The excel vba fires "Run-time error '28', Out of Stack space", when running an user-form. ( IQuickActivate )
4.2.0.4 November 24, 2008
*NEW: Ability to display known UI parts as in the current visual theme.
*Added: UseVisualTheme property specifies whether the UI parts of the control are displayed using the current visual theme.
*Added: The column's drop down filter window is shown up, if the column's FilterOnType property is True, so it does not cover the list.
4.2.0.3 October 24, 2008
*NEW: Ability to expand the control's header when user resizes the column.
*Added: HeaderSingleLine property specifies whether the control resizes the columns header and wraps the captions in single or multiple lines.
*Added: The SelBackColor property keeps the item/cell's visual appearance, background colors, if the FullRowSelect property is exItemSel or exRectSel, and the SelBackColor property points to an EBN object ( with or without transparent regions ). This way you can still display the ItemBackColor/CellBackColor for selected items too.
*Added: The SelForeColor property is ignored, if it has the same value as ForeColor property.
*Fixed: Prevents painting the hierarchy lines for hidden items ( Items.ItemHeight property is 0 )
4.2.0.2 September 22, 2008
*NEW: Ability to sort the items and include inner cells in the drop down filter window
*Added: Column.FilterList(FilterListEnum.exIncludeInnerCells) includes the values of the inner cells in the drop down filter list.
*Added: Column.FilterList(FilterListEnum.exSortItemsDesc) sorts descending the values in the drop down filter list.
*Added: Column.FilterList(FilterListEnum.exSortItemsAsc) sorts ascending the values in the drop down filter list.
4.2.0.1 August 01, 2008
*Fixed: The Items.SelectedItem property retrieves 0, if there is no selected item.
*Fixed: The Background(exToolTipAppearance/exToolTipBackColor/exToolTipForeColor) property does not change the border appearance / background color / foreground color for tooltips on the scrollbars.
*Fixed: Sometimes the vertical scroll bar is not shown even if required, if items with different heighs are loaded between BeginUpdate / EndUpdate block.
4.2 eXTree/NET
4.1.0.6 June 24, 2008
*Added: OleEvent.ToString property retrieves information about the OLE event, including the name, parameters and values.
*Added: OleEvent.ID property retrieves a long expression that indicates the identifier of the OLE event being fired.
*Added: The x-script supports dates as #12/31/2007 10:00# indicates the December 31, 2007, 10:00
*Added: The HTML captions handles the glyph characters as follows: & ( & ), < ( < ), > ( > ), &qout ( " ), &#number. For instance, the € displays the EUR character, in UNICODE configuration. The & ampersand is only recognized as markup when it is followed by a known letter or a `#' and a digit.
*Fixed: The positions of the items are not restored after removing the filter.
4.1.0.5 May 23, 2008
*Added: ScrollPartCaptionAlignment property specifies the alignment of the caption in the part of the scroll bar.
*Added: ItemsAllowSizing property specifies a value that indicates whether the user can resize a specified item or all items.
*Fixed: The ConditionalFormat.Font property doesn't change the specified font for items or cells where it should apply
*Fixed: The Column.Remove method does not shift the cells to the left, if a column in the middle is removed.
4.1.0.4 April 03, 2008
*Added: Resizes the columns for best fit, of all sizable columns when the user presses the SHIFT key and double clicks the line between two sizable columns.
*Added: Resizes the columns for best fit, of all sizable columns from the right of double clicked column, when the user presses the CTRL key.
*Added: The HasButtonsCustom property may draw the +/- ( expand/collapse ) buttons using EBN files.
*Fixed: A VARIANT parameter passed by reference during ItemOleEvent event can not be changed.
4.1.0.3 March 10, 2008
*NEW: Filter-On-Type feature allows filtering a column while you type characters in the drop down filter window.
*Added: Column.FilterOnType property filters the column as the user types characters in the drop down filter window. The property filters for items that starts with, or contains the typed characters based on the Column.AutoSearch property.
*Added: Expands automatically the item from the cursor while performing OLE Drag and Drop operations and the cursor hovers the expand/collapse button.
*Fixed: The scrollbar is not functional if your mouse buttons configuration in the Control Panel is for Left-Handed.
4.1.0.2 February 11, 2008
*Added: The BackgroundPartEnum.exDragDropListTop and BackgroundPartEnum.exDragDropListBottom visual effects are applied on the target control ( not only on the source control ), when performing OLE drag and drop operation.
*Added: BackgroundPartEnum.exDragDropListOver and BackgroundPartEnum.exDragDropListBetween values specifies the visual effect while performing OLE drag and drop operations when the cursor is over or between items.
*Added: If a visual effect is specified for exDragDropListOver AND exDragDropListBetween states, and a visual effect is specified for exDragDropListTop OR/AND exDragDropListBottom state(s), the exDragDropListTop visual effect is displayed ONLY if the cursor is over the first visible item, and the exDragDropListBottom visual effect is shown ONLY for the last visible item.
*Added: HitTestInfoEnum.exHTBetween value indicates whether the cursor is between two items.
*Added: Scrolls faster the control while performing OLE drag and drop operations, while cursor is keeping in the same place for longer time.
*Fixed: The control can's scroll up during OLE drag and drop operations.
4.1.0.1 January 04, 2008
*NEW: Ability to change the visual appearance of the control/tooltip's borders using skins, including transparent areas or round borders too.
*Added: Appearance property specifies a predefined border for the control, or a color expression whose last 7 bits in the high significant byte of the value indicates the index of the skin in the Appearance collection, being displayed as control's borders. For instance, if the Appearance = 0x1000000, indicates that the first skin object in the Appearance collection defines the control's border.
*Added: Background(exToolTipAppearance) property specifies the visual appearance of the tooltip's borders. For instance, if the Background(exToolTipAppearance) = 0x2000000, indicates that the second skin object in the Appearance collection defines the tooltip's border.
*Added: Background(exToolTipBackColor) property indicates the tooltip's background color, if this is not 0. By default, the system indicates the tooltip's background, while the Background(exToolTipBackColor) property is 0.
*Added: Background(exToolTipForeColor) property specifies the tooltip's foreground color, if this is not 0. By default, the system indicates the tooltip's foreground color, while the Background(exToolTipForeColor) property is 0.
4.0.1.3 December 17, 2007
*Added: AnchorFromPoint(X,Y) retrieves the identifier anchor from the cursor
*Added: ShowToolTip( ToolTip, Title, X, Y ) shows the tooltip at specified coordinates
*Fixed: Items.IsItemVisible property retrieves 1 instead -1 which means True
*Fixed: Removes the optional flag for Options parameter of the GetItems method so #import directive doesn't fire the error C2668: 'GetItems' : ambiguous call to overloaded function, when the Items property is called in C++.
4.0.1.2 November 05, 2007
*NEW: Ability to use anchor elements in HTML cells.
*Added: <a id;options> (anchor) built-in HTML element is a piece of text or some other object (for example an image) which marks the beginning and/or the end of a hypertext link.
*Added: The AnchorClick( AnchorID, Options ) event notifies whether the user clicks an anchor HTML element.
*Added: FormatAnchor property specifies the visual effect for anchor elements.
*Added: ToolTipFont property specifies the tooltip's font.
4.0.1.1 October 01, 2007
*Added: <font face;size> built-in HTML tag that specifies the font and the size to draw a portion of text until </font> is found.
*Added: ExecuteTemplate property retrieves a Variant value, instead of a String, so it can returns Objects too. For instance, you can use the EXPRINT.PrintExt = CONTROL.ExecuteTemplate("me") to print the control's content
*Fixed: Tab characters display square characters
*Fixed: Small drawing bug when the user performs OLE drag and drop over items with different heights, and the Background(exDragDropListBottom) and/or .Background(exDragDropListTop) properties are set
4.0.1.0 August 28, 2007
*NEW: Ability to display the column's filter programmatically
*Added: Column.ShowFilter method shows the drop down filter window at specified position with giving size
*Added: Adds more accurate icons when you drag files to the control's images panel
*Fixed: Calling Items.ItemPosition property several times slows displaying the control's data.
4.0.0.9 July 31, 2007
*NEW: Ability to re-arrange the buttons in the scrollbar
*Added: ScrollOrderParts(ScrollBar) property. Specifies the order of the buttons in the scroll bar.
*Added: Column.Def(exCellVAlignment) defines the vertical alignment for the entire column
*Fixed: Ensures that the drop down filter window fits the screen client area.
4.0.0.8 June 26, 2007
*NEW: Ability to display skins for any part that paints one or multiple icons. For instance, RadioImage(0) = &H23000000, specifies that the radio buttons that are unchecked ( state 0 ) to display the skin with the identifier &H23 ( 35 decimal ), that was previously added using the VisualAppearance.Add property.
*NEW: Ability to save the control's content to EMF format, and so to BMP, JPG, PNG formats.
*Added: Copy method. Copies the control's content to the clipboard, in Enhanced Metafile (EMF) format.
*Added: HasButtonsCustom, RadioImage, CheckImage, Items.CellImage, Items.CellImages, Column.HeaderImage, any HTML caption that includes <img> tags, supports skins.
4.0.0.7 May 23, 2007
*NEW: Ability to specify the graphic feedback for the dragging items while OLE drag and drop operation is performed.
*Added: Background(exDragDropBefore) property. Specifies the visual appearance for the drag and drop cursor before showing the items. This option can be used to apply a background appearance to the items that are dragged, before any item is painted.
*Added: Background(exDragDropAfter) property. Specifies the visual appearance for the drag and drop cursor after showing the items. This option can be used to apply a semi-transparent/opaque background appearance to the items that are dragged, after they are painted.
*Added: Background(exDragDropListTop) property. Specifies the graphic feedback of the item from the drag and drop cursor if the cursor is in the top half of the row.
*Added: Background(exDragDropListBottom) property. Specifies the graphic feedback of the item from the drag and drop cursor if the cursor is in the bottom half of the row.
*Added: HitTestInfoEnum.exHTBottomHalf type specifies whether the cursor is in the bottom half of the row.
*Chang: VB\DragDrop sample
4.0.0.6 March 26, 2007
*NEW: Ability to highlight the column when the cursor hovers the header
*Added: Background(exCursorHoverColumn) property. Specifies the visual appearance of the column when the cursor hovers the header.
*Added: The EnsureVisibleColumn calls DoEvents ( or equivalent of ) before, so the layout of the columns is processed first.
*Fixed: Serializes the Items.CellData and Items.ItemData in ToTemplate format.
4.0.0.5 February 21, 2007
*NEW: Ability to load and display custom size pictures to HTML captions.
*Added: HTMLPicture property. Adds or replaces a picture being used in the HTML captions.
*Added: <img> built-in tag supports pictures. For instance, the <img>pic1</img> displays the pic1 picture being loaded using the HTMLPicture("pic1")
*Added: Items.FindItem property searches case sensitive only if the ASCIIUppert property is empty.
*Added: A computed field displays the days between two dates, if subtraction operator is used in the formula for cells of DATE type.
4.0.0.4 January 29, 2007
*Added: The AllowedEffects parameter is set on 1 (exOLEDropEffectCopy) , if the AllowedEffects parameter is 0 and the user calls the SetData property of the ExDataObject object during the OLEStartDrag event. The Q253282 (Changes to ByRef Parameters in Script Event Handlers Are Not Passed to Controls) expalins why on VBScript, the new value of the AllowedEffects parameter is not passed to the control.
*Added: The \*, \?, \#, \| in Column.Filter masks the *, ?, # or | character in the filter, when the Column.FilterType = exPattern. For instance, if the * character is not preceded by a \ character, the * character matches zero or multiple characters.
*Fixed: The Unicode version truncates the exCFText data, when the control performs the OLE drag and drop operations.
*Fixed: The Column.DefaultSortOrder property is ignored, if the user clicks the column's header, while the SingleSort property is False.
4.0.0.3 December 06, 2006
*NEW: Ability to define custom filters
*Added: Column.CustomFilters property defines custom filters.
*Added: ExecuteTemplate property, runs a template and retrieves a value of the variable in the template.
*Fixed: Items.CellCaption property fails if calling for a splitted cell.
4.0.0.2 November 23, 2006
*NEW: Ability to filter items based on the cell's icon
*NEW: The Template supports calling multiple properties in the same line using the . (dot) separator. For instance, the 'ConditionalFormats.Add("%0>1 and %1<2").Bold = True ' statement bolds the items where the cells in the first column are greater than 1, and the cells in the second column are less than 2.
*Added: FilterTypeEnum.exImage type. Specifies if the column filters cells based on the icons in the column ( Items.CellImage property ).
*Added: Appearance.Add("CP:") methods adds a copy of an existing skin with different coordinates.
*Added: The ScrollBar parameter of the ScrollButtonClick event provides the scrollbar being clicked.
4.0.0.1 October 05, 2006
*NEW: Ability to apply skins on the control's scrollbars
*Added: ScrollButtonClick event. Occurs when the user clicks a button in the scrollbar.
*Added: ScrollPartVisible property. Indicates whether the specified scroll part is visible or hidden.
*Added: ScrollPartEnable property. Indicates whether the specified scroll part is enabled or disabled.
*Added: ScrollPartCaption property. Specifies the caption being displayed on the specified scroll part.
*Added: ScrollToolTip property. Specifies the tooltip being shown when the user moves the scroll box.
*Added: ScrollFont property. Retrieves or sets the scrollbar's font.
*Added: ScrollButtonWidth property. Specifies the width of the button in the horizontal scrollbar.
*Added: ScrollButtonHeight property. Specifies the height of the button in the vertical scrollbar.
*Added: ScrollWidth property. Specifies the width of the vertical scrollbar.
*Added: ScrollHeight property. Specifies the height of the horizontal scrollbar.
*Added: ScrollThumbSize property. Specifies the size of the thumb in the scrollbar.
3.0.1.7 August 29, 2006
*NEW: Computed Fields support
*Added: Column.ComputedField property. Specifies the formula to compute the column.
*Added: CaptionFormatEnum.exComputedField indicates a computed cell. In this case, the Items.CellCaption property specifies the formula to compute the cell, based on other cells.
3.0.1.6 July 21, 2006
*NEW: The Template supports CreateObject method to create new objects. For instance, in the Template string you can call an rs = CreateObject("ADODB.Recordset").Open("Table",...) to create and open a table that can be used later by DataSource property of the control. This feature can be used by programming environments ( such as eDeveloper ) that do not accept working with particular objects.
*Added: Items.SelectAll method. Select all items.
*Added: Items.UnselectAll method. Unselects all items.
*Added: ColumnFromPoint method gets the index of the column being resized, if the returned value is less or equal than -256.
*Update: ExPrint.dll
3.0.1.5 June 21, 2006
*NEW: Ability to specify the position of the inside ActiveX control, when the InsertControlItem property is used.
*Added: Items.ItemWidth property may specify the width of the inside ActiveX or the cell/column that shows the inside ActiveX control.
*Added: Ability to resize at run-time the drop down filter window using the mouse.
*Added: ColumnsAllowSizing property. Ability to resize the columns at run-time, even if the control's headerbar is not visible.
*Fixed: ToolTipDelay, ToolTipPopDelay and ToolTipWidth properties do not affect the tootip in the filter window.
3.0.1.4 May 29, 2006
*NEW: Ability to specify whether the child items should be included, when the list is filtered.
*Added: FilterInclude property. Specifies the items being included after the user applies the filter.
*Added: Non-alphanumeric characters wraps HTML cells, not only space character.
*Added: Improvements to the Template editor.
*Chang: The type of State parameter for the CheckImage property changed from long to CheckStateEnum type.
3.0.1.3 April 27, 2006
*NEW: Ability to filter items using AND, OR, or NOT operators between columns
*Added: FilterCriteria property specifies the filter criteria.
*Added: Description(exFilterBarOr) specifies the caption for the 'or' operator
*Added: Description(exFilterBarNot) specifies the caption for the 'not' operator
3.0.1.2 April 04, 2006
*NEW: Customizable Windows XP Theme support
*Added: Appearance.Add method adds a predefined XP skin defined by class, part and state, from the current XP theme, if the Skin parameter starts with "XP:". For instance, the Add( 1, "XP:Header 1 1" ), adds an XP predefined skin from the current theme, to draw the component's part as the header of the system's listview control in Windows XP
*Fixed: On Windows XP, the comctl32 library is improperly released, if the application runs with a manifest file.
3.0.1.1 March 03, 2006
*NEW: Conditional Format support (The conditional formatting feature allows you to apply formats to a cell or range of cells, and have that formatting change depending on the value of the cell or the value of a formula)
*Added: ConditionalFormat object. Specifies the formula and the format to be applied
*Added: ConditionalFormats collection. Holds a collection of ConditionalFormat objects.
*Added: ConditionalFormats property. Retrieves the control's ConditionalFormats collection
3.0.1.0 February 15, 2006
*NEW: Ability to save the control's content to a template string.
*Added: ToTemplate property. Generates the control's template at runtime.
*Added: AllowCopyTemplate property. Specifies whether the Shift + Ctrl + Alt + Insert sequence copies the control's content to the clipboard, in template form.
*Added: Items.CellPictureWidth property. Retrieves or sets a value that indicates the width of the cell's picture.
*Added: Items.CellPictureHeight property. Retrieves or sets a value that indicates the height of the cell's picture.
3.0.0.9 January 19, 2006
*Added: Updates the vertical scroll bar on the fly, if the ScrollBySingleLine property is True.
*Added: ScrollBarsEnum.DisableNoHorizontal type. The horizontal scroll bar is always shown, it is disabled if it is unnecessary.
*Added: ScrollBarsEnum.DisableNoVertical type. The vertical scroll bar is always shown, it is disabled if it is unnecessary.
*Added: ScrollBarsEnum.DisableBoth type. Both horizontal and vertical scroll bars are always shown, disabled if they are unnecessary.
3.0.0.8 December 22, 2005
*Added: Printing multiple-levels header
*Added: Background(exSelBackColorFilter) property specifies the visual appearance for the selection in the drop down filter window.
*Added: Background(exSelForeColorFilter) property specifies the foreground color for the selection in the drop down filter window.
*Added: Keeps the foreground color of the button when the cell is clicked and the cell's CellHasButton property is True.
*Fixed: The Column.Filter property stores only the first value in the filter list.
3.0.0.7 December 13, 2005
*Added: Scrolls the child items as much as they fit the control's client area when the user expands an item.
*Added: Extends the BackColorAlternate automatically to the rest of the list, where unfilled items are displayed.
*Added: Removes the extra-line between items when the DrawGridLines property is exVLines.
*Added: HitTestInfo.exHTCellPicture value indicates the picture within the cell.
*Fixed: Sometime, the filter drop down window is not closed, if the user clicks an outside window
3.0.0.6 November 11, 2005
*Added: Ability to resize items at run-time, using mouse movements.
*Added: ItemsAllowSizing property. Retrieves or set a value that indicates whether a user can resize items at run-time.
*Added: Items.ItemAllowSizing property. Specifies a value that indicates whether a user can resize an item at run-time.
*Added: The Column.HeaderBold, HeaderItalic, HeaderStrikeOut, HeaderUnderline property affetcs the Column.HTMLCaption property
*Added: If the Column.ToolTip property is "..." (default) the column displays a tooltip when mouse hovers the column's header and its caption doesn't fit the column's header.
3.0.0.5 September 26, 2005
*NEW: Ability to insert icons anywhere in the cell's caption.
*Added: < img >...< /img > HTML tag indicates the index of icon being inserted in the cell's caption. For instance, the < img >2< /img > displays the second icon in the cell's caption.
*Added: HitTestInfoEnum.exHTCellCaptionIcon specifies the hit test code when the cursor hovers the icons inside the cell's caption.
*Added: Limits the number of characters inside the cell's tooltip to 1024 characters.
*Added: VB\HTML\Multiple.Icons sample
3.0.0.4 August 28, 2005
*NEW: Ability to filter items by check state
*Added: FilterTypeEnum.Check specifies that only checked or unchecked items are displayed.
*Added: CancelCellEdit event. Occurs if the user presses ESC key or clicks outside the edit field. In previous versions, the AfterCellEdit event is fired when the user clicks outside the edit field
*Added: Resizes the drop down filter window so there is no empty area.
*Fixed: Sometime, the cell's caption is truncated when printing the control's content.
3.0.0.3 August 09, 2005
*Added: Ability to specify not resizable columns when the user resizes the control, using the Column.AllowSizing property
*Added: Displays the resizing cursor between two columns, only if the column can be resized. The cursor is displayed if the Column.AllowSizing property is True, and in the right side of the column, there is at least one visible column with the Column.AllowSizing property on True.
*Added: ItemFromPoint( -1, -1, c, HitTestInfo) property gets the item from the cursor position.
*Added: ColumnFromPoint( -1, -1) property gets the index of the column from the cursor position.
*Fixed: The ItemDividerLine cuts the first or the last line in a multiple lines item.
3.0.0.2 July 13, 2005
*Added: Restores the selected items in the column's drop down filter window.
*Added: Ignores HTML colors when an item is selected.
*Added: BackgroundPartEnum.exDateHeader, exDateTodayUp, exDateTodayDown, exDateScrollThumb, exDateScrollRange, exDateSeparatorBar, exDateSelect to change the visual appearance for the drop down calendar window.
*Added: Avoids calling the EnsureVisibleItem method during the SetParent method.
3.0.0.1 June 12, 2005
*NEW: Skinnable Interface support ( ability to apply a skin to any background part ) ( Check the VB\VC\...Template samples )
*Added: Appearance object. Defines a collection of skins.
*Added: VisualAppearance property. Specifies an object that defines the control's visual appearance.
*Added: Background property. Specifies a background color or a skin for different parts like drop down filter button, closing filter bar button and so on.
2.0.1.0 June 11, 2005
*Added: Column.FilterBarDropDownWidth property specifies the width of the drop down filter window proportionally with the width of the column.
*Added: Ability to hide the (All), (Blanks) and (NonBlanks) items in the drop down filter window, by setting the Description property to empty string.
2.0.0.9 May 13, 2005
*Added: SortTypeEnum.SortUserDataString type. Ability to sort the Items.CellData values as strings.
*Added: Allows specifying the SelStart and SelLenght properties anywhere in the code.
*Fixed: The scrolled column line shows at the back of the locked column, if the CountLockedColumns property is not 0.
2.0.0.8 April 05, 2005
*NEW: Ability to specify not selectable items
*Added: Items.SelectableItem property. Specifies whether the user can select the item.
*Added: Column.Def(exCellBackColor) property. Specifies the background color for cells in the column.
*Added: Column.Def(exCellForeColor) property. Specifies the foreground color for cells in the column.
*Added: Fires the BeforeExpandItem event when the user searches for an item by typing characters, if the ExpandOnSearch property is True, Items.ItemHasChildren property is True.
2.0.0.7 March 09, 2005
*Help: Updated
*Help: Adding VB, VC++, VB.NET, C# and VFP syntax in the help file.
*Added: Specifies the Items.CellCaption property during the AddItem event.
*Added: If the CTRL key is pressed while rotating the mouse wheel, the control scrolls horizontally its content.
*Added: Scrolls the control's content item by item when rotating the wheel, if the ScrollBySingleLine property is True.
*Added: Draws the connection between the parent item and its first child item if the height of the item is larger than the height of the cell's caption. Check the Items.CellVAlignment propery.
*Added: NET\Sort sample
*Added: NET\Template sample
*Added: VFP\Sort sample
2.0.0.6 February 07, 2005
*NEW: Multi-Column Sort support.
*Added: SingleSort property. Returns or sets a value that indicates whether the control supports sorting by single or multiple columns.
*Added: SortBarVisible property. Retrieves or sets a value that indicates whether control's sort bar is visible or hidden.
*Added: SortBarHeight property. Retrieves or sets a value that indicates the height of the control's sort bar.
*Added: SortBarCaption property. Specifies the caption being displayed on the control's sort bar when no columns are sorted.
*Added: SortBarColumnWidth property. Specifies the maximum width a column can be in the control's sort bar.
*Added: BackColorSortBar property. Retrieves or sets a value that indicates the sort bar's background color.
*Added: BackColorSortBarCaption property. Returns or sets a value that indicates the caption's background color in the control's sort bar.
*Added: ForeColorSortBar property. Retrieves or sets a value that indicates the sort bar's foreground color.
*Added: Column.AllowSort property. Returns or sets a value that indicates whether the user can sort the column by clicking the column's header.
*Added: Column.SortPosition property. Returns or sets a value that indicates the position of the column in the sorting columns collection.
*Added: Columns.ItemBySortPosition property. Returns a Column object giving its sorting position.
*Added: Sort event. Fired when the control sorts a column.
2.0.0.5 February 03, 2005
*Added: A locked item may host an ActiveX control using the InsertControlItem method.
*Added: Highlights the selected items only if the SelBackColor and BackColor properties are different and SelForeColor and ForeColor properties are different.
*Added: Selects the items from the first item to the item from the cursor, when user clicks a list with no selected items and SingleSel property is False.
2.0.0.4 December 08, 2004
*NEW: "Split cells" support
*Added: Items.SplitCell property. Splits a cell, and returns the inner created cell.
*Added: Items.UnsplitCell property. Unsplits a cell.
*Added: Items.CellWidth property. Retrieves or sets a value that indicates the width of the inner cell.
*Added: Items.CellParent property. Retrieves the parent of an inner cell.
*Added: Items.InnerCell property. Retrieves the inner cell.
*Added: SelectColumnInner property. Retrieves or sets a value that indicates the index of the inner cell that's selected.
*Added: Items.SelectPos property. Selects an item by position.
*Added: Ability to select cells when the FullRowSelect property is False, when using the tab, left or right arrow keys.
*Added: VB\Split.Cells sample
2.0.0.3 November 22, 2004
*NEW: Merging cells support ( "Merge cells" support )
*Added: Items.CellMerge property. Retrieves or sets a value that indicates the index of the cell that's merged to.
*Added: Items.MergeCells method. Merges a list of cells.
*Added: Items.UnmergeCells method. Unmerges a list of cells.
*Added: VB\Merge.Cells sample
2.0.0.2 November 16, 2004
*NEW: Locked/fixed rows/items support.
*NEW: Divider items support
*Added: Items.ItemDivider property. Specifies whether the item acts like a divider item. The value indicates the index of column used to define the divider's title.
*Added: Items.ItemDividerLine property. Defines the type of line in the divider item.
*Added: Items.ItemDividerLineAlignment. Specifies the alignment of the line in the divider item.
*Added: ShowLockedItems property. Shows or hides the locked items.
*Added: Items.LockedItemCount property. Specifies the number of items fixed on the top or bottom side of the control.
*Added: Items.LockedItem property. Retrieves the handle of the locked item.
*Added: Items.IsItemLocked property. Returns a value that indicates whether the item is locked or unlocked.
*Added: Aligns the cell's icon(s), picture and check box to top or bottom of the cell, if Items.CellVAlignment property is set.
*Added: Aligns the tree lines to the cell based on its vertical alignment ( Items.CellVAlignment ).
2.0.0.1 October 31, 2004
*NEW: Multiple Levels Header support.
*Added: Column.LevelKey property. Specifies the key that identifies the column's level.
*Added: BackColorLevelHeader property. Specifies the multiple levels header's background color.
*Added: PictureLevelHeader property. Retrieves or sets a graphic to be displayed in the control's header when multiple levels is on.
*Added: PictureDisplayLevelHeader property. Retrieves or sets a value that indicates the way how the graphic is displayed on the control's header background.
*Added: Multiple.Levels.Header sample
1.0.7.8 October 28, 2004
*Added: Column.Def property. Retrieves or sets a value that indicates the default value of given properties for all cells in the same column.
*Added: ExpandOnKeys property. Specifies a value that indicates whether the control expands or collapses a node when user presses arrow keys.
*Added: ScrollPos property. Specifies the control's scroll position.
*Added: Keeps the Column.FilterType on exNumeric when the ClearFilter method is called.
*Added: Closing the drop down filter window editor when user releases the ENTER or ESCAPE key.
1.0.7.7 October 12, 2004
*NEW: Ability to filter items giving numerical rules like >, < =, and so on.
*Added: FilterType.exNumeric type. Specifies that the filter may include numerical operations to filter items between an interval.
*Fixed: Adjusts the item's height in the drop down filter window, proportionally with the control's font.
1.0.7.6 September 15, 2004
*Added: ALT key support.
*Added: The KeyCode parameter of KeyDown, KeyUp events passed by reference.
*Added: The KeyAscii parameter of KeyPress event passed by reference.
*Added: Column.FilterList as FilterListEnum property. Specifies whether the drop down filter list includes visible or all items.
*Fixed: Hides the item's grid line if the height of the item is 0
1.0.7.5 August 11, 2004
*Added: Items.ItemMaxHeight property. Retrieves or sets a value that indicates the maximum height when the item's height is variable.
*Added: The exHTCellIcon value gets the index of the icon being clicked in the high word ( (HitTestInfo And &HFFFF0000) / 65536 )
*Fixed: The Column.Filter property gets the list of values being filtered separated by ',' instead '|' character, when Column.FilterType is exPattern.
1.0.7.4 June 04, 2004
*Added: DescriptionEnum.exFilterBarDateToday. Specifies the caption for 'Today' button inside the date filter window.
*Added: DescriptionEnum.exFilterBarDateMonths. Specifies the name for months to be displayed in a date filter window. The list of months should be delimited by space characters.
*Added: DescriptionEnum.exFilterBarDateWeekDays. Specifies the shortcut for the weekdays to be displayed in a date filter window. The list of shortcut for the weekdays should be delimited by space characters.
*Added: DefaultItemHeight property can be called before adding items to the control, at runtime.
1.0.7.3 May 21, 2004
*Added: Reducing the number of GDI objects when using multiple instances in the same process.
*Fixed: OLE Drag and Drop is initiated when clicking the cell's button ( CellHasButton property )
1.0.7.2 April 15, 2004
*NEW: Ability to use custom images for +/- signs on the parent items.
*Added: ExpandButtonEnum.exCustom. Specifies whether the control displays custom +/- signs for parent items.
*Added: HasButtonsCustom( Expanded ) property. Specifies the index of icons for +/- signs when the HasButtons property is exCustom.
*Added: HitTestEnum parameter of HitTestInfoEnum type to ItemFromPoint property. The HitTestEnum expression specifies the hit test code within the cell.
1.0.7.1 March 23, 2004
*NEW: Ability to use incremental searching for collapsed items too.
*Added: ExpandOnSearch property. Expands items automatically while user types characters to search for a specific item.
*Added: Resize the edit control to the left while editing a right aligned cell.
*Added: Scroll( Type, ScrollTo ) method. Scrolls the control's content.
*Added: The 16x16 icons look larger in exPrint print preview.
1.0.7.0 March 10, 2004
*Added: Multiple improvements on usage the Template/Layout page in the MSVC environment.
*Added: Displays the control's content in the VFP-IDE (design mode ).
*Added: ExPrint ver. 1.0.0.4 ( ability to initialize the settings for the printer when previewing or printing ).
1.0.6.9 February 10, 2004
*NEW: Ability to filter items between two dates, using an easy to use interface.
*Added: Column.DisplayFilterDate property specifies whether the drop down filter window displays a date selector to specify the interval dates to filter for.
*Added: FilterTypeEnum.exDate type. The Column.Filter specifies the interval of dates to filter items.
*Added: DescriptionTypeEnum.exFilterBarDate. Describes the caption of the 'Date' label in the drop down filter window. It has effect, only if the Column.DisplayFilterPattern and Column.DisplayFilterDate properties are true.
*Added: DescriptionTypeEnum.exFilterBarDateTo. Customizes the "to" caption used to separate dates in a date interval. It has effect, only if the Column.DisplayFilterPattern and Column.DisplayFilterDate properties are true.
*Added: DescriptionTypeEnum.exFilterBarDateTooltip. Specifies the tooltip that shows up when the cursor is over the dates interval filter window. It has effect, only if the Column.DisplayFilterPattern and Column.DisplayFilterDate properties are true.
*Added: DescriptionTypeEnum.exFilterBarDateTitle. Specifies the tooltip's title that shows up when the cursor is over the dates interval field. It has effect, only if the Column.DisplayFilterPattern and Column.DisplayFilterDate properties are true.
*Added: DescriptionTypeEnum.exFilterBarAnd type. Customizes the ' and ' text dispalyed by filter bar when multiple columns are used in fltering.
1.0.6.8 Januray 19, 2004
*NEW: Ability to load the control's Images collection using BASE64 encoded strings.
*Added: The Items.CellPicture property supports BASE64 encoded strings that holds a picture
*Added: The Images method supports BASE64 encoded strings that holds a list of icons.
*Added: The Items.LastVisibleItem( Partially ) gets the handle of the last visible item. The Partially parameter specifies whether the item is partially visible.
1.0.6.7 Januray 07, 2004
*NEW: Blinking cursor in the filter pattern field.
*Added: FilterBarDropDownHeight property. Specifies the height of the drop down filter window proportionally with the height of the control's list.
1.0.6.6 December 15, 2003
*Added: GetItems property. Gets the collection of items into a safe array.
*Added: Items.AddItem and Items.InsertItem methods accepts a safe array to fill the item.
1.0.6.5 November 20, 2003
*NEW: Ability to search for items that 'start with' or 'contain' typed characters.
*Added: AutoSearchEnum type. Specifies the kind of searching while user types characters within a column.
*Added: HideSelection property. Returns a value that determines whether selected item appears highlighted when a control loses the focus.
*Added: Items.CellHAlignment property. Aligns the cell.
*Added: Items.ClearCellHAlignment property. Clears the cell's alignment.
*Added: Column.AutoSearch property. Specifies the kind of searching while user types characters within the columns.
*Fixed: The Columns.Remove method fails, if the ScrollBySingleLine property is True.
1.0.6.4 November 07, 2003
*Added: Items in the drop down filter window get ordered as they are collected from the column.
*Added: EnsureVisibleColumn method. Scrolls the columns to make sure that given column fits the control's client area.
*Added: The '|' character separates the options in the Column.Filter pattern if Column.FilterType property is exPattern.
*Added: ExpandButtonEnum.exCircle, ExpandButtonEnum.exWPlus values
*Added: By default, the ShowImageList property is False, in the registered version.
1.0.6.3 September 09, 2003
*Help: Updated
*Added: Scrollbars property. Returns or sets a value that determines whether the control has horizontal and/or vertical scroll bars.
*Added: Column.HeaderAlignment property. Specifies the alignment for the caption of the column.
*Added: GridLineColor property. Specifies the grid line color.
1.0.6.2 August 27, 2003
*Fixed: The control's images panel loads only 16 colors icons by dragging.
*Fixed: The control seems to only work with a mouse setup for a right-handed person.
*Fixed: The searching string is not highlighted if cell contains multiple HTML tags.
1.0.6.1 June 24, 2003
*Help: Updated
*Added: GridLinesEnum.exRowLines value. If DrawGridLines property is GridLinesEnum.exRowLines the control paints the grid lines only for existing rows.
*Added: The control fires the AfterCellEdit event if user clicks anywhere in the control.
1.0.6.0 June 06, 2003
*Added: New HTML tags for keyword's tooptips : < dotline > ( draws a dotted line ), < solidline > ( draws a dotted line ), < upline > ( draws up the line ) and < r > ( right aligns the line )
*Fixed: The control fails if the SortOrder property is changed during the AddColumn event.
1.0.5.9 May 21, 2003
*NEW: Ability to align the hierarchy lines to the right side, for Hebrew, Arabic and other .
*Added: Ability to insert new icon files to images panel by pressing the Insert key when the images panel is focused.
*Added: Any of the following HTML tags \r\n, \n\r or <br> breaks the line.
*Fixed: The thin black border removed, for XP systems.
1.0.5.8 May 09, 2003
*NEW: The tooltips support HTML format.
1.0.5.7 April 21, 2003
*Added: ToolTipDelay property. Specifies the time in ms that passes before the ToolTip appears.
*Added: ToolTipPopDelay property. Specifies the period in ms of time the ToolTip remains visible if the mouse pointer is stationary within a control.
*Fixed: Tooltip window size.
1.0.5.6 April 01, 2003
*NEW: Word wrapping support for HTML cells.
*Added: If the CellSingleLine() is False, CellCaptionFormat() is exHTML, lines that extend horizontally beyond the visible range of the cell are automatically wrapped to the next line.
1.0.5.5 March 17, 2003
*Help: Updated
*Added: Tooltip event. Fired when the control prepares the cell's tooltip or the column's tooltip.
*Added: If the Items.CellToolTip() is "..." and the cell's caption doesn't fit the cell's client area, the control shows up a tooltip that shows the entire cell's caption. By default, the Items.CellTooltip property is "...".
1.0.5.4 March 14, 2003
*Added: FilterBarCaption property. Specifies the filter bar's caption. If the FilterBarCaption property is empty, the default filter bar's caption is displayed.
*Fixed: The cursor is hidden while the cursor is over a hyperlink cell, on Windows NT
*Chang: Items.ItemHasChildren property. Adds an expand button to left side of the item even if the item has no child items. The ItemChild property specifies whether an item has child items.
*Chang: Items.ItemBorderStyle renamed to Items.ItemAppearance.
*Chang: BorderStyle renamed to Appearance property.
*Added: VB\VirtualTree sample
1.0.5.3 February 11, 2003
*Help: Updated
1.0.5.2 February 05, 2003
*NEW: Print and Print Preview support.
*Added: VB\Print sample
*Fixed: VB\DragDrop sample
1.0.5.1 January 31, 2003
*NEW: Ability to assign multiple icons to a cell.
*Added: Items.CellImages property. Specifies an additional list of icons shown in the cell. For instance, the CellImages( h, c ) = "3,2,4", displays the thrid, second and the forth icon in the same cell.
1.0.5.0 January 29, 2003
*Added: Column.Tooltip property. Specifies the column's tooltip description.
*Added: Column.Key property. Specifies the column's key. The Key and Caption properties are used when the user specifies a column.
*Fixed: The Value property of OleEventParam object changes only parameters of VARIANT type.
1.0.4.9 January 20, 2003
*Added: Microsoft Layer for Unicode on Windows 95/98/Me Systems
*Fixed: Small memory leak when Items enumerator is used in for ... each statements.
1.0.4.8 January 06, 2003
*Added: ColumnFromPoint(X,Y) property gets the index of the column from point. -1 if the column was not found.
*Added: Scrolls the control's content during a drag and drop operation.
1.0.4.7 December 19, 2002
*Added: ExpandOnDblClick property. Specifies whether the item is expanded or collapsed if the user dbl clicks the item.
1.0.4.6 December 18, 2002
*NEW: Ability to use built-in HTML tags in the columns's header.
*Added: Column.HTMLCaption property. Ability to display the column's header using built-in HTML tags. The Caption property is used by default, but if the HTMLCaption property is not empty the HTMLCaption is used to display the column's header.
*Added: If the CellPicture property is a string, the control loads a picture file.
*Added: VB\VW, VFP\VW, VC\VW samples.
*Fixed: If the Column.Enabled is False, the Column.Alignment property has no effect
1.0.4.5 December 11, 2002
*Fixed: The VBA displays the the LinesAtRoot property as boolean instead of LinesAtRootEnum type.
*Fixed: The VBA displays the the HasButtons property as boolean instead of ExpandButtonEnum type.
*Fixed: On Windows Me, if the control is created and destroyed dynamically internal images remain unreleased. ( InsertControlItem ).
1.0.4.4 December 06, 2002
*Added: Enabled property. Enables or disables the control.
*Added: ASCIILower property. Specifies the set of lower characters. By default, the ASCIILower property is "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz "
*Added: ASCIIUpper property. Specifies the set of upper characters. By default, the ASCIIUpper property is "ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ "
By default, the auto search feature is not case sensitive.
For instance, if you are using the ASCIIUpper = "" you can make it case sensitive
If you have the ASCIILower = "(((" and ASCIIUpper = "{[(", when you type one of the "{[(" characters, the auto
search feature considers as being the same with the "(".
*Change: VC\Sample sample.
1.0.4.3 November 30, 2002
*Added: Column.Data property. Associates an extra data to a column.
*Added: HeaderHeight property. Retrieves or sets a value indicating the control's header height.
*Chang: The type for SortOnClick property is SortOnClickEnum.
The SortOnClickEnum defines the following values:
0 - exNoSort ( the control doesn't sort the column, and no sort icon in the column's header ). SortOnClick = False
-1 - exDefaultSort ( the control sorts the column, and sort icon is visible in the column's header ). SortOnClick = True
1 - exUserSort ( the control doesn't sort the column, but the sort icon is visible in the column's header )
*Fixed: The ColumnClick event is fired after sort operation.
1.0.4.2 November 28, 2002
*Added: DescriptionTypeEnum.exFilterBarIsBlank and DescriptionTypeEnum.exFilterBarIsNonBlank. The
DescriptionTypeEnum.exFilterBarIsBlank defines the caption for "IsBlank" in the filter bar
DescriptionTypeEnum.exFilterBarIsNonBlank defines the caption for "not IsBlank" in the filter bar
*Added: Column.Data property. Associates an extra data to the column.
*Fixed: In VBA Excel, the Visible property doesn't work properly. ATL3.0 BUG
1.0.4.1 November 18, 2002
*Updated: Help file
1.0.4.0 November 17, 2002
*Added: AutoSearch property. Enables or disables the auto search feature.
1.0.3.9 November 05, 2002
*Added: < br > HTML tag. The < br > HTML tag breaks the line
1.0.3.8 October 31, 2002
*Added: XP shadow effect for tooltips.
*Fixed: .NET An unhandled exception of type "System.NullReferenceException" occurred in system.windows.forms.dll. Additional info: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.
1.0.3.7 October 26, 2002
*NEW: WYSWYG Template/Layout Editor
*Added: Template property. Specifies the control's template content. It holds a collection of properties and their values, methods and objects, into a TEXT file. The template file combines XML style with something close to VBScript.
*Added: VB\Template sample
*Added: VFP\Template sample
*Added: VC\Template sample
*Added: Web sample
*Added: Access\ExTree Template sample
1.0.3.6 October 18, 2002
*NEW: Any cell supports built-in HTML format.(<b>Inbox</b> <fgcolor=0000FF>(78)</fgcolor></b>)
*Added: CaptionFormatEnum type. The valid values are exText and exHTML.
*Added: Items.CellCaptionFormat( Item, ColIndex ) as CaptionFormatEnum.
If the CellCaptionFormat is exText, no HTML formatting is applied.
If the CellCaptionFormat is exHTML the CellCaption is displayed using HTML tags.
The following tags are supported:
< b > tag - draws a text bolded until </b> is reached.
< i > tag - draws the text using italic font attribute until </i> is reached.
< s > tag - draws the text using strikeout font attribute until </s> is reached.
< u > tag - draws the text using underline font attribute until </u> is reached.
< fgcolor=RRGGBB > tag - draws the text using the RGB(RR,GG,BB) foreground color. until < /fgcolor > is reached. RR, GG and BB should be hexa values
< bgcolor=RRGGBB > tag - draws the text using the RGB(RR,GG,BB) background color. until < /bgcolor > is reached. RR, GG and BB should be hexa values
For instance: the HTML formatting "<b>Inbox</b> <fgcolor=0000FF>(78)</fgcolor></b>" draws the 'Inbox' using bold font attribute, and '(78)' using the blue foreground color.
*Added: VB\HTML sample. Describes how cells can be formatted using a simple HTML formatting.
*Chang: VFP sample changed.
1.0.3.5 October 17, 2002
*NEW: DAO support enabled.
*Added: Description( DescriptionType ). Changes the description for control objects. For instance: Description( exFilterBarAll ) changes the description for (All) item in the drop down filter list.
*Fixed: The cell's caption is hidden during editing.
*Added: MSAccess 2000 sample in VB\Sample.mdb
1.0.3.4 October 10, 2002
*Fixed: The user is not able to use a "Forms.ComboBox.1" object when it is hosted by an ActiveX item.
1.0.3.3 October 09, 2002
*Added: BackColorAlternate property. Specifies the background color used to display alternate items in the control.
*Added: DetectAddNew property. Specifies whether the control detects when a new record is added to the bounded recordset.
*Chang: The type of DrawGridLines property changed from Boolean to GridLinesEnum type. The valid values are exNoLines, exAllLines, exHLines or exVLines
*Chang: The type of HasButtons property changed from Boolean to ExpandButtonEnum type. The valid values are exNoButtons, exPlus or exArrow
*Chang: The type of LinesAtRoot property changed from Boolean to LinesAtRootEnum type. The valid values are exNoLinesAtRoot, exLinesAtRoot or exGroupLinesAtRoot
*Chang: The type of HasLines property changed from Boolean to HierarchyLineEnum type. The valid values are exNoLines, exNoLine, exDotLine, exSolidLine or exThinLine
*Chang: VB\FilterBar sample.
1.0.3.2 October 07, 2002
*NEW: FilterBar Support. Ability to filter items with an easy-to-use interface
*Added: FilterChange event. Notifies your application that the user changed the filter.
*Added: ApplyFilter method. Applies the filter. If you change the column's Filter or FilterType at runtime, ApplyFilter method is required to reflect the changes.
*Added: ClearFilter method. Clears the filter.
*Added: FilterBarHeight property. Specifies the height of the control's filter bar. If the FilterBarHeight < 0 the control resizes the filterbar to fit its content. If the FilterBarHeight = 0 the filterbar is hidden. If the FilterBarHeight > 0 the filterbar's height is fixed and occurs only when a filter is applied
*Added: FilterBarForeColor property. Specifies the foreground color of the control's filter bar.
*Added: FilterBarBackColor property. Specifies the background color of the control's filter bar.
*Added: FilterBarFont property. Retrieves or sets the font for control's filter bar.
*Added: Column.FilterType property. Specifies the column's filter type. The valid values are exAll, exBlanks, exNonBlanks, exPattern and exFilter
*Added: Column.Filter property. Specifies the column's filter when filter type is exFilter or exPattern. If the FilterType = exPattern the Filter property supports wild card characters like *,? or #.
*Added: Column.DisplayFilterButton property. Shows or hides the column's filterbar button.
*Added: Column.DisplayFilterPattern property. Specifies whether the dropdown filterbar contains a textbox for editing the column's filter pattern.
Added: VB\Filter sample
1.0.3.1 October 06, 2002
*Fixed: The control is destroyed when it is hosted by a TAB control, and a new page is activated
*Fixed: .NET. When you drag an icon file over the control's images list, the environment takes the file.
*Fixed: Calling Edit method inside of the AfterCellEdit event does not start the control's editing mode.
*Fixed: Small corrections when drawing the searching box
*Fixed: The searching column is changed when a new column is selected.
1.0.3.0 September 28, 2002
*Fixed: A cell that contains a & character is truncated.
*Fixed: The edit box remains opened while ColumnAutoResize is True, and user resizes the control.
*Fixed: In VC++, the control properties show empty values.
1.0.2.9 September 25, 2002
*Added: ItemFont( Index ) property. Specifies the item's font. Using the ItemFont property you can change the font's size for particular items.
*Added: CellFont( Index, ColIndex ) property. Specifies the cell's font. Using the CellFont property you can change the font's size for particular cells.
*Added: ClearCellBackColor(Index, ColIndex) method. Clears the cell's background color.
*Added: ClearCellForeColor(Index, ColIndex) method. Clears the cell's foreground color.
*Added: ClearItemBackColor(Index, ColIndex) method. Clears the item's background color.
*Added: ClearItemForeColor(Index, ColIndex) method. Clears the item's foreground color.
1.0.2.8 September 24, 2002
*Added: SelStart property. Returns or sets the starting point of text selected; indicates the position of the insertion point if no text is selected.
*Added: SelLength property. Returns or sets the number of characters selected.
*Fixed: The edit box is not closed if the Items.Edit method is called during CellStateChanged event.
*Fixed: Sometimes the vertical scroll bar shows up when new item is added, if ScrollBySingleLine = True.
*Fixed: The MarkSearchColumn property has no effect if there is only one column in the control.
*Fixed: The UseTabKey property has no effect if there is only one column in the control.
1.0.2.7 September 18, 2002
*NEW: .NET Ready/ Tested with .NET RCW
*Added: CellVAlignment property. Specifies the vertical alignment when the item contains a multiple line cell.
*Fixed: If the control is hosted by a MS Excel user form, the screen gets dirty while it is on design mode.
*Added: NET\Simple sample.
1.0.2.6 September 06, 2002
*Added: BackColorHeader property. Specifies the header's background color.
*Added: ForeColorHeader property. Specifies the header's foreground color.
*Fixed: Misc fixes.
1.0.2.5 September 03, 2002
*NEW: Support for Windows XP scrollbars
*Added: Version property. Specifies the control's version.
*Fixed: The focus rectangle is painted incorectly if the view is scrolled and FullRowSelect property is True.
1.0.2.4 September 01, 2002
*Updated: Help file
1.0.2.3 August 10, 2002
*NEW: Hot Tracking Support
*Added: HyperLinkColor property. Specifies the hyperlink color.
*Added: Items.CellHyperLink property Specifies whether the cell's is highlighted when the cursor mouse is over the cell.
*Fixed: The KeyDown and KeyUp events are not fired when the user releases an arrow key.
*Fixed: In MS Access, the image list window in not closed.
*Fixed: Clicking the cell's check box doesn't select the item.
1.0.2.2 July 31, 2002
*NEW: Partial Check ( Three Check States ) Support. Built-in checkbox relection to reflect that state of children, parents
*Added: Column.PartialCheck property. Specifies whether the column supports the partial check feature.
*Added: VB\PartialCheck sample.
*Fixed: The Data.Files property gets nothing, if the user drag a file to the control.
*Fixed: The MouseDown event is fired twice if the RClickSelect property is true.
*Fixed: The user is not able to drag items if he clicks on the cell's icon, and SingleSel is False.
*Fixed: The ShowFocusRect property displays no focus rectangle.
*Fixed: ActiveX items at bottom side are resized to fit the client area,
1.0.2.1 July 22, 2002
*NEW: Background Picture Support
*NEW: Transparent Selection Support
*Added: Picture property. Retrieves or sets a graphic to be displayed in the control.
*Added: PictureDisplay property. Retrieves or sets a value that indicates the way how the graphic is displayed on the control's background,
*Added: SelBackMode property. Retrieves or sets a value that indicates whether the selection is opaque, transparent.
*Fixed: The CellForeColor, CellBackColor properties do not use "System" color values ( &H8000000C, ... ).
*Fixed: Column autoresizing does not handle bold text very well
*Fixed: Draw a "fake" column on the right side, if ColumnAutoResize is False.
*Fixed: HeaderAppearance misc.
*Chang: VB\Options sample.
1.0.2.0 July 18, 2002
*Added: LayoutChanged event. The LayoutChanged event occurs when column's position or column's size is changed.
*Added: VB\Layout sample.
*Added: Column.SortOrder property. Specifies the column's sort order.
*Added: Column.DefaultSortOrder property. Specifies whether the default sort order is ascending or descending.
*Fixed: The Column.Position should be between 0 .. Columns.Count - 1
1.0.1.9 July 2, 2002
*Added: FindItemData( UserData, [StartIndex] ) property. Finds an item given its user data.
*Fixed: If the control displays the grid lines the control's image is alterated.
*Fixed: Items.FindPath and Items.FullPath properties fails if SearchColumnIndex > 0.
*Fixed: Even if the BeginUpdate method is called, the items are still refreshed.
*Udpate: The setup installs a shortcut to control's documentation in the sample folder.
*Added: VB\ItemHeight sample
*Added: VB\Enum sample
1.0.1.8 June 19, 2002
*NEW: Licensed Control support.
*Added: InsertControlItem( Parent, ControlID, License ) method. The License parameter specifies the runtime license string to be used.
1.0.1.7 June 9, 2002
*Added: UseTabKey property. Specifies whether the TAB key is used to change the searching column.
*Fixed: Searching column is selected by index instead position while user presses TAB key.
*Fixed: Small flickering when one item is refreshed.
1.0.1.6 June 3, 2002
*Added: SelectColumn property. Specifies whether the user selects cells only in SelectColumnIndex column, while FullRowSelect property is False
*Added: If the item contains an OLE object, the item's width counts when the user dblclcks on the column's resize bar.
*Fixed: The last visible item is not counted when the user dblclicks on the column's resize bar.
*Fixed: If the CellHasButton() property is True, CellButtonAutoWidth is False and if the cell has associated an icon, the cell's icon is opaque.
*Fixed: If the cell hosts an OLE object the cell's icon is hidden.
*Renam: Items.ButtonAutoWidth property renamed to Items.CellButtonAutoWidth property
1.0.1.5 May 31, 2002
*Added: ShowImageList property. Specifies whether the control's image list window is visible or hidden.
*Added: ItemWidth property. Specifies the width of the ActiveX item if it was added using InsertControlItem method. It accepts negative numbers when the entire client area is used.
*Fixed: Changing a VARIANT event's parameter passed by reference, in OLEEvent event is not possible.
*Fixed: If the user dblclcks the column's resize bar, while ColumnAutoResize is True, the column's width is less than should be.
1.0.1.4 May 27, 2002
*Added: Appearance property. Retrieves or sets the control's appearance
*Added: Items.ButtonAutoWidth property. Retrieves or sets a value indicating whether the cell's button fits the cell's caption
*Fixed: Selecting items by dragging is slow.
*Fixed: Q230326. Validate Event Does Not Fire When Changing Focus with Mouse to ATL Control
*Fixed: VFP. The control's font cannot be changed at design time.
1.0.1.3 April 22, 2002
*Chang: License scheme.
1.0.1.2 April 1, 2002
*NEW! : Adding, removing, replacing icons at runtime,
*Added: ReplaceIcon( Icon, -1) method. Adds a new icon to control's image list, and retrieves the index of the image. Sample: .ReplaceIcon Image1.Picture.Handle, adds a new icon to the end of the control's image list, .ReplaceIcon LoadPicture("D:\Icons\help.ico").Handle adds a new icon, loads the icon from a file, and adds it to control's image list
*Added: ReplaceIcon( Icon, >= 0 ) method. Replaces an icon to control's image list. Sample: .ReplaceIcon Image1.Picture.Handle, 0 replaces the first icon in the control's image list
*Added: ReplaceIcon( 0, >= 0) method. Removes an icon given its index. Sample: .ReplaceIcon 0, 0 removes the first icon in the control's image list
*Added: ReplaceIcon( 0, -1) method. Clears the images collection. Sample: .ReplaceIcon, clears the entire image list.
*Fixed: The icons holder is not closed by Access 97,
1.0.1.1 March 22, 2002
*NEW: Draw & Drop Support.
*NEW: ADO BuiltIn Data Binding Support.
*Added: DataSource property. Binds the tree to an ADO recordset.
*Added: Items.ItemPosition property. Retrieves or sets a value that indicates the item's positions in the children list.
*Added: Column.AutoWidth property. Computes the column's width required to fit the entire column's content
*Chang: DblClk in the column's resize bar resizes the column to fit within visible column's content.
*Fixed: Column.Width doesn't validate the locked area,
*Updat: Help File
1.0.1.0 March 22, 2002
*Added: Column.WidthAutoResize property. Retrieves or sets a value that indicates whether the column is automatically resized according to the width of the contents within the column.
*Added: Column.MinWidthAutoResize property. Retrieves or sets a value that indicates the minimum column's width when the WidthAutoResize is True
*Added: Column.MaxWidthAutoResize property. Retrieves or sets a value that indicates the maximum column's width when the WidthAutoResize is True
*Fixed: If the CellSingleLine() is False for a cell with an empty caption then the item's height is wrong.
*Fixed: When expanding some multiple-line items become invisible ( white rectangular area on a screen ).
1.0.0.9 February 03, 2002
*Added: Column.HeaderImage property. Retrieves or sets a value that indicates the index for column's image into Images collection. ( See ActiveX sample )
*Added: Column.HeaderImageAlignment property. Retrieves or sets a value that indicates alignment of the column's image into column's header. ( See ActiveX sample )
*Added: CheckImage property. Changes the image for cell of check type. ( See Options sample )
*Added: RadioImage property. Changes the image for cell of radio type. ( See Options sample )
*Added: SelForeColor property. Retrieves or sets a value that indicates the selection foreground color.
*Added: SelBackColor property. Retrieves or sets a value that indicates the selection background color.
*Added: Items.CellPicture property. Associates a Picture object to a cell. The CellPicture allows displaying images with different widths. ( See. Picture sample )
*Fixed: Access 97, can't resize the control after initial drag/drop to the form.
1.0.0.8 January 14, 2002
*Added: UNICODE support
1.0.0.7 January 9, 2002
*Added: ItemToIndex property. Retrieves the index of item into Items collection given its handle.
*Fixed: Misc. scroll fixes.
*Fixed: MS Access handles the accelerators like: enter, escape, up, down, left, right, home, end keys for other purposes
1.0.0.6 January 7, 2002
*Added: FullPath(Item) property. Returns the fully qualified path of the referenced item in a ExTree control.
*Added: PathSeparator property. Returns or sets the delimiter character used for the path returned by the FullPath property
*Added: FindPath property. Finds the item given its path. The searching column is determined by SearchColumnIndex property
1.0.0.5 January 6, 2002
*Changed: Copyright Information.
*Changed: CellHasButton. Cell's button fits the entire column instead cell's caption width, while CellHasButton = True
*Fixed: If the Windows Sounds Scheme contains for SystemDefault a wav file, it is played when user hits ENTER or ESCAPE into a focused cell.
1.0.0.4 December 18, 2001
*Added: DrawFocusRect. Retrieves or sets a value that indicates whether the focused rect is visible or hidden.
1.0.0.3 December 14, 2001
*Fixed: license issue
1.0.0.2 November 15, 2001
*Added: Help support
1.0.0.1 October 18, 2001
* Initial Release
