Font Dialog Box WinFormattedTextEditor™ includes three dialog boxes which help the end user format text. These dialog boxes can be accessed through the custom context menu or methods designed to show them. You can display the Font dialog box by invoking the ShowFontDialog method off the EditInfo object. This metho...
Hyperlink Dialog Box WinFormattedTextEditor™ includes three dialog boxes which help the end user format text. These dialog boxes can be accessed through the custom context menu or methods designed to show them. You can display the Hyperlink dialog box by invoking the ShowLinkDialog method off the EditInfo object. ...
Image Dialog Box WinFormattedTextEditor™ includes three dialog boxes which help the end user format text. These dialog boxes can be accessed through the custom context menu or methods designed to show them. You can display the Image dialog box by invoking the ShowImageDialog method off the EditInfo object. The Ima...
New WinFormattedTextEditor Control In Ultimate UI for Windows Forms 2006 Volume 3, we added an editing counterpart to WinFormattedLinkLabel™: the WinFormattedTextEditor™ control. Using the WinFormattedTextEditor control, you can display any of the formatted text that WinFormattedLinkLabel can display, but with the...
Prevent Text from Being Edited WinFormattedTextEditor™ is a formatted text editor with great editing capabilities. But what if you don’t want the end user editing its contents? What if you also want the end user to be able to select the contents and copy it to the clipboard. There are several situations where this...
Smooth Formatted Text The WinFormattedTextEditor™ control can smooth over any of its text by using a technique known as anti-aliasing. This smoothing capability turns jagged edges (aliasing) of letters into smooth curves (anti-aliasing). What really happens is that pixels of gray are added to the letter to give th...
Style Attribute In 2006 Volume 3, we added the style attribute to FormattedLinkEditor. This attribute allows you to apply several styles to formatted text. Every tag supports the style attribute, but not all tags support every sub-attribute. For example, you can apply the style attribute to both the
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WinFormattedTextEditor Support Dialogs WinFormattedTextEditor™ gives you the ability to customize a context menu designed specifically to edit formatted text. In this context menu, the end user can launch several different types of dialog boxes to help them format text. These dialogs can modify fonts, insert hyper...
Switching Between Design View and Code View Before You Begin The XML tags that the WinFormattedTextEditor™ control uses are very similar to HTML tags. Because of this, you can actually use WinFormattedTextEditor as a type of HTML editor. One feature that HTML editors contain is Design View vs. Code View. It is pos...
The WinFormattedTextEditor Smart Tag In Visual Studio® 2005 (.NET Framework 2.0), each Ultimate UI for Windows Forms control/component is equipped with a Smart Tag. By simply selecting the control/component, a Smart Tag anchor appears. When you click this anchor, a pop-up panel appears, providing you with quick an...