Intro
We are happy to announce TMS FNC Core 1.4 is available for all active and registered customers! It includes 2 new components and a lot of smaller improvements and fixes.- TTMSFNCPDFLib: Non-visual component for creating rich content PDF documents.
- HTML formatted text support
- Drawing primitives such as lines, rectangles, ellipses and custom paths
- Support for horizontal and vertical linear gradients
- Separate Fill and Stroke implementation
- URL support
- Unicode character support
- Cross platform
- Support for images drawing with optional stretching, aspect ratio
- Text flow in multiple columns
- Overflow detection and calculation
- Numerous predefined page sizes
- Optional page header and footer
- TTMSFNCGraphicsPDFIO: Non-visual component based on TTMSFNCPDFLib to export UI controls such as TTMSFNCGrid, TTMSFNCPlanner, TTMSFNCChart as well as the complete dashboard controls set and many more.
There is a accompanying guide (PDF) that can help get your application set up with these 2 new components.
Separate Product
We are also excited to announce that TMS FNC Core will be available as a separate product. As already mentioned in the intro, TMS FNC Core has received a major update with 2 new components, but has already been the heart and soul for all FNC products for a long time. It includes a lot more "hidden" functionality that can be used separately from any other FNC product. Below is a list of some of the most important features.- JSON reading, writing and parsing functionality
- Base64 and URL encoding and decoding
- Component persistence
- Undo/Redo Manager
- Verification of numeric, alphanumeric character sets
- Message, file open and save dialogs
- Easy access to application and documents folder
- Open files and URLs
- Bitmap container for storing JPEG, PNG, ICO, GIF and many more image formats with optional automatic URL downloading mechanism