TX Text Control 12.0 ActiveX

Thank you for evaluating TX Text Control, the comprehensive text integration tool. TX Text Control allows you to create a variety of text-based applications with the ease of programming that is characteristic of modern development environments. Yet, Text Control provides highly sophisticated formatting and display capabilities that are normally the exclusive domain of a large word processing packages.

Updating from prior Versions

(Please read this chapter if you have developed with prior versions of TX Text Control).

The TX Text Control 12.0 ActiveX Component is installed and registered independent from prior versions of TX Text Control. Therefore development projects does not automatically update. Perform the following steps depending on your development enviroment:

Visual Basic

Open your project's .vbp file and change the line

Object={3D6D5D32-B9F2-101C-AED5-00608CF525A5}#1.x#0; Tx4ole.ocx

or

Object={1b635020-8269-11d8-9e2b-004005a9abd2}#1.6#0; Tx4ole11.ocx

to the following

Object={ab949ac0-ec97-11d9-9e2b-004005a9abd2}#1.7#0; Tx4ole12.ocx

Possible values for 1.x are 1.0, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4 and 1.5.
Perform the same with all occurrences in .frm files.

Internet Explorer

The class ids for the TX Text Control objects have been changed to the following:
Text Control: ab949ac1-ec97-11d9-9e2b-004005a9abd2
Button Bar: ab949ac9-ec97-11d9-9e2b-004005a9abd2
Ruler Bar: ab949acd-ec97-11d9-9e2b-004005a9abd2
Status Bar: ab949ad1-ec97-11d9-9e2b-004005a9abd2

Internet Information Server/ASP

Replace the class names of TX Text Control objects for all Server.CreateObject calls in your ASP project files.

Rename TXTextControl.TextControl.110 or TIS.TX.TextControl to TIS.TX.TextControl.12.
Rename TXTextControl.LicManager or TIS.TX.LicManager to TIS.TX.LicManager.12.

Delphi 

Follow the instructions described in “Delphi User's Guide - Upgrading from a Previous Version of Text Control“ in the TX Text Control ActiveX Programmer's Guide.

Using the Trial Version

(Please read this chapter if you have installed TX Text Control as a Trial Version).

The Trial Version is identical to the Full Version - you have complete access to all of the features and functions. The only difference is that there is a "please register me" pop-up window every 15 minutes and an information text is added on top of every page when a document is printed or saved.

The Trial Version is licensed for evaluation purposes only. This license does not allow you to develop an application using this software, nor to redistribute any part of it.

Purchasing the Full Version

TX Text Control is available online at http://www.textcontrol.com, or from any of our international resellers. For a list of resellers, please refer to http://www.textcontrol.com/resellers.

Installing the Full Version

The Full Version's setup program automatically detects a previously installed Trial Version and updates it accordingly. To change or remove installed components, run the Setup program again or use the Control Panel's Software - Add\Remove Programs item.

Using Visual Basic

TX Text Control 12.0 is fully compatible to Visual Basic 6. The sample programs for Visual Basic 6 are available in the directory SAMPLES\VB6.

Using Delphi

TX Text Control 12.0 is fully compatible to Delphi 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7. The sample programs for Delphi are available in the directory SAMPLES\DELPHI.

Please read the installation instructions described in the chapter „Delphi User's Guide“ of the TX Text Control ActiveX Programmer's Guide. A Type Library for Delphi 6 and Delphi 7 is also available at the TX Text Control Support Department.

Notes for VisualWriter Users

To upgrade a Visual Basic program from Visual Writer 3.xx to TX Text Control 12.0:

Step 1
Open the project file of your program with Windows Notepad. Locate the line
Object={F91B79EC-6609-11CF-A6CA-00608CF525A5}#1.0#0; VW32.OCX
and replace it with
Object={ab949ac0-ec97-11d9-9e2b-004005a9abd2}#1.7#0; Tx4ole12.ocx

Step 2
Open all of your .bas and .frm files in turn with Notepad (or any other
text editor), and replace the folowing strings:

VCIVwLib -> Tx4oleLib
VisualWriter -> TxTextControl
VWRuler -> TxRuler
VWButtonBar -> TxButtonBar
VWStatusBar -> TxStatusBar

You are now ready to load your project into Visual Basic and run it.

Contact

TX Text Control is a product of

The Imaging Source Europe GmbH
Sommerstrasse 36
28215 Bremen
Germany

For general information and sales related questions, please email to sales@textcontrol.com, 
or call +49-421-335910.

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