{"id":273,"date":"2004-05-14T09:12:26","date_gmt":"2004-05-14T07:12:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/10.0.0.2\/wordpress\/?p=273"},"modified":"2004-05-14T09:12:26","modified_gmt":"2004-05-14T07:12:26","slug":"wptools-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.switchbl8.nl\/blog\/2004\/05\/wptools-2\/","title":{"rendered":"WPTools"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I installed the trial version of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wptools.com\/\">WPTools <\/a>for Delphi 6. Dudez, this thing rocks! By dropping 4 (yes, four) of their components on a frame, you more or less have a full-blown Wordprocessor (not only a text-editor). Fonts, alignments, rulers, images, tables, whatever, it&#8217;s there.<\/p>\n<p>The native format of the edit-component is RTF, but by including WPWordConv in the uses-clause, the open-file-dialog lists all the file-formats that you have installed on your PC. So you cannot build a Word replacement if you don&#8217;t have Word installed (since it needs the Word DLL&#8217;s to convert to RTF).<\/p>\n<p>Apart from this tiny drawback, this thing rocks! Oh, I already mentioned that.<\/p>\n<p>I will be using this component in a tool I&#8217;m writing for a client that uses an application that generates RTF-reports\/documents based on templates. But <a href=\"http:\/\/www.trichview.com\/\">TRichView <\/a>that I used, can&#8217;t handle the header and footer properly (the header contains a table and an image, which I think is not so special) and it does something to the gridlines of a table. In the application, they can view the generated RTF-file, but they requested that they could edit it as well, so they wouldn&#8217;t have to switch to the full-blown application everytime. Because of the quirks of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.trichview.com\/\">TRichView<\/a>, I created a button to start MS Word to edit the document. But if I give them the new version with the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wptools.com\/\">WPTools <\/a>components, they will never have to use Word again. Great!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I installed the trial version of WPTools for Delphi 6. Dudez, this thing rocks! By dropping 4 (yes, four) of their components on a frame, you more or less have a full-blown Wordprocessor (not only a text-editor). Fonts, alignments, rulers, images, tables, whatever, it&#8217;s there. The native format of the edit-component is RTF, but <a href='https:\/\/www.switchbl8.nl\/blog\/2004\/05\/wptools-2\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,41,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-delphi","category-rare-it-services","category-5-id","category-41-id","category-26-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.switchbl8.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.switchbl8.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.switchbl8.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.switchbl8.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.switchbl8.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=273"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.switchbl8.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.switchbl8.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.switchbl8.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.switchbl8.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}