Programming Categories

TXTextControl has several hundred properties, methods and events. The reference of the control lists them in alphabetical order; the categories below sort the complete list by task, so that you find every member for tables, fields, printing or page layout in one place.

Each category page has a table per kind of member, properties, methods and events, and a line on what each member does. A member that serves two tasks, such as a dialog box method, appears in more than one category.

Pages in This Section

• Character Formatting: fonts, sizes, styles, colors and spacing of characters.
• Paragraph Formatting: alignment, indents, spacing, tabs and frames of paragraphs.
• Bullets and Numbered Lists: bulleted and numbered lists.
• Headers and Footers: headers, footers and page numbers.
• Sections and Pages: sections, page size, margins, columns and page borders.
• Stylesheet Formatting: apply formatting styles and open the style dialog box.
• Stylesheet Programming: the Style and Styles objects for styles in code.
• Built-in Dialog Boxes: every method that opens a built-in dialog box.
• Tables: insert, edit, split and merge tables, rows, columns and cells.
• Zooming: zoom factor and zoom events.
• Loading, Saving and Database Support: load and save documents in files, memory and databases.
• Images, Text Frames, Signature Fields and OLE Objects: insert and position images, text frames, signature fields and OLE objects.
• Hypertext Links: link targets and hypertext link fields.
• Clipboard Operations: cut, copy and paste.
• Undo: undo, redo and undo actions.
• Printing and Print Preview: print documents and pages and choose the printer.
• Search and Replace: find text and open the search and replace dialog box.
• Line and Character Operations: map characters, lines and screen coordinates.
• Control Settings: border, colors, view mode, language and other settings of the control.
• Spell Checking: spell checking as you type and misspelled words.
• Using a Table of Contents: create, update and delete a table of contents.
• Using Footnotes: insert, number and edit footnotes.
• Text Selections and Character Input: selection, input position, mouse and keyboard events.
• Restricted Document Access: edit modes, document permissions and editable regions.
• Tracking Document Changes: record and review tracked changes.
• Commenting a document: insert, reply to and delete comments.
• Scrolling: scroll bars, scroll position and caret events.
• Text Fields: insert, find and edit marked text fields.
• Form Fields: text fields, check boxes, combo boxes, drop-down lists and date fields in forms.
• Tool Bars: connect the button bar, ruler bars and status bar.
• XML Programming: XML elements, validation and XML events.
• Server Programming: use the control as an automation server.