Feature Overview

Pagenumber hints while scrolling Automatically a hint window is displayed when the scrollbar is moved. This halpes the user to find the correct page,. This feature can be switched off and the text can be customized using the global variable WPPageHintStr.

Introduction - Why WPTools?

Feature List - Quick overview to compare different WPTools editions

WYSIWYG WPTools will always work in WYSIWYG mode, this means the printed output will always match the output you saw in the editor. Internally WPTools measures the text in a high resolution - so it is printed in a high quality. When printers are changed this does NOT change the word wrap or page breaks!

Create tagged PDF files (with wPDF) Only WPTools has the ability to work together with our product wPDF V3 to create tagged PDF files. Here paragraphs and tables are marked, so the PDF data can be better manipulated and extracted.

Multiview (splitscreen) technology WPTools strictly separates the text data structures from the output logic. This makes it possible to show the same text using an editor and a preview component. Even more impressive it is possible to edit the same text using different editors!

Image Support WPTools supports embedded images. The images can be handled as a character or linked to paragraph or to a page with relative positioning. Text wrapping is possible on left or right side and also on both sides!

File Formats WPTools saves and loads text in ANSI, RTF, HTML/CSS and its own native "WPTools" format. But you can also add custom reader and writer classes or modify the existing classes. The native WPTools format is close to HTML which makes it indexable by indexing procedures which are able to skip HTML tags.

Headers and Footers Headers and footers can be loaded and saved in RTF or WPT format. They can be different for the first, the odd and the even pages. It is also possible to select header and footer using an event - this makes it easy to have multiple headers and footers in one text.

Section Support WPTools can handle text sections. This means there can be different header and footers in the text, also different page sizes or orientation. The WPReporter will create a multi section document if the template contained section breaks.

Different text attributes This component supports the paragraph and character attributes you are used to ... and a lot more. The concept of WPTools 5 allows a consistent support for paragraph styles.

Text styles (stylesheet) The core of WPTools has been optimized to work with styles - it was built from scratch using concepts also used by HTML/CSS

Tables In WPTools tables one cell can contain multiple paragraphs and even other tables. The height of a row can exceed he length of a page since, unlike some competing products, WPTools 5 supports page breaks in table rows.

Repeated header and footer rows Only WPTools has the ability to repeat certain rows of a table at the start and the end of a page. These rows can be used to display life (!) sub totals if you use the calculation feature included in the WPReporter addon.

Sub Paragraphs Just another unique feature of the new WPTools Engine: Texts from different sources can be displayed in one window similar to the display in a TDBControlGrid. This makes it possible to use just one editor to edit text which is stored in multiple data base fields or -records.

Label printing with WPTools WPTools includes a powerful component to print booklets and labels. We also added a form which can be included in your application using only a few lines of code. This label printing tool even loads and saves the definition of the label format to a XML file.

Syntax Highlighting WPTools includes the component TWPSynEditHighlight which has been created to use the SynEdit (http://SynEdit.SourceForge.net) syntax highlighter with WPTools 5. This makes it possible to show the syntax of about 30 different languages, including Pascal, Java c++ and SQL!

External pages and watermarks Unique feature which makes it possible to integrate other pages into the preview/editor pages and are painted in an event. While the text sayes editable the pages are not. This is great to combine reporter output with letters in one preview.

Mailmerge (dynamic update of fields) "Mail Merge" means the automatic update of data fields in any document. It can be used to do mass mailing or to create customizable database record views.<br> With WPTools merge fields are not destroyed by the merge process, the field data can be exchanged as soon as it changes. So it is possible to scroll through a database with a merge letter being "attached".<br> It is also possible to read out the contents of the merge field. So the document can be also used as data entry from. Text can be merged as ANSI, RTF and HTML text. Also images can be updated.

Forms WPTools can be also used to create forms. These are sepecial texts which are generally protected. The user may only edit the text in specially marked areas.

EditBox modes Sometimes you need to create forms with editor boxes resized automatically to match their contents. WPTools 5 can do this for both, the height and the width...

Dialogs are included WPTools comes with a set of dialogs, such as the property disalogs for paragraph indents and spacing, tabstops and borders. There is a dialog to change the page size, to define a numbering style or to create a paragraph style.

Database Connectivity The WPTools editor can be easily used with databases. The mail merge can also load the field data from a database automatically.

Notes for upgrades from WPTools V4 Due to the changed data structures it is not possible to simply replace WPTools 4 with WPTools 5 although we are trying to make the upgrade as smooth as possible....

Versatile Borders and Shading WPTools 6.12 comes with an all new, intuitive and easy to use border dialog. Without leaving the dialog the user can now apply different border and shading properties to single or multiple cells, rows or columns in a table. It is even possible to naviage to a different table.