Very true in a lot of ways...I've been spoiled with the likes of Corel Draw, Quark Express, Insight, and other text formatting and typesetting applications that are TOTALLY flexible.
Just looking at the demos and test downloads from TX Text, it looks like the flexibility of placing graphics (both placement and sizing) and text boxes that can be placed anywhere and sized freeform will accomplish what is needed. I produced an app several years back that used the MSoft Richtext control and it was quite a chore inserting the codes for bold, italic, typeface, text color...and I never got into inserting graphic images! My hope for whatever control is that it is plug and play and print. I guess it's worth a few hours of testing. My reason for asking was in case anyone had used it and had a bad experience, or if anyone knew of another option from an alternative source. Thanks Fred! Mike > The TX Text Control is really more or less just an improved version of the > MS RichText control. It's still just a stream of text, not free form > placement. I haven't used it since version 14 (about 2-3 years ago), so > maybe it has changed, but I doubt it. > > In that context, even Word isn't really free form placement, so maybe I'm > not quite getting what you're asking for. > > Fred > > > On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 2:38 PM, Mike Copeland<[email protected]> wrote: > >> Recommendations for providing text editing in a VFP 9 application? >> >> User is now using Word, and are happy with it, but it would be a plus if >> I could incorporate text editing in my application. Features needed are >> -graphics insertion, free-form placement, sizing, scaling, text wrap >> -font sizing, free-form placement, use any Windows font >> >> Primarily users will be producing retail Point-of-sale price tags, like >> you would see if you walked through the home& garden department at >> Sears or Home Depot. My application won't be the source of the graphics, >> but would need to allow insertion and printing in color. >> >> I've used the RTF OCX control from MSoft in the past, but find it to be >> very limiting as to free-form placement of text and graphics elements. >> In RTF everything has to be pretty much "stream of text". It would work, >> it just wouldn't be that flexible. >> >> I've been looking at the TX Text Control ActiveX. >> http://www.textcontrol.com/en_US/products/activex/overview/ >> >> Anyone have experience with this software? >> Recommendations for this or something else? >> >> Mike Copeland >> Genesis Group Software >> [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[email protected] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
