General Overview
The TER editor routine allows a developer to incorporate text editing features into an MS Windows application. This product is designed to be simple to use.
The .NET Framework is backward compatible to .NET 2.
The .NET Core works with .NET 6 and later versions.
The TER editor offers the following features:
Character Formatting and Text Color: The editor allows for multiple fonts and point sizes within a document. The character styles include bold, underline, italic, superscript, subscript, and strikeout. The text can be painted in multiple colors.
Paragraph Formatting Features: Left indentation, right indentation, hanging indentation, centering, justification and double spacing.
Tab Support: Left, right, center, and decimal tab positions.
Imbedded Picture: The picture can be imported from a disk file or from the clipboard. The editor supports the bitmap, device independent bitmap and metafile picture formats.
Word Wrapping: The word wrapping can be enabled or disabled.
Support for Multiple Section, Multiple Column documents. The editor also offers the Page Mode feature to edit side-by-side multiple column text.
Block Highlighting: The text can be highlighted using character highlighting or line highlighting functions.
Cut/Paste: The cut/paste to clipboard is performed using these formats:
Text Format
Rich Text Format
Printing and Mail/Merge: The editor can print the selected text or the entire document to the selected printer. An API function allows your application to print a text buffer without invoking the text window. This process can also replace the field names with data strings.
Application Programming Interface: The APIs allow you to insert or retrieve text and format attributes anywhere in the text window. You can also interface to the editor window using message communication.
In most instances, only a single API function is needed to invoke the editor.
Input and Output Source: The editor can accept data in a buffer or from a disk file. Likewise, the output can be obtained in a buffer or disk file.
Input and Output text format: The editor supports the following file formats:
Text format
Rich Text Format
DOCX format
HTML format (requires HTML Add-on)
DOC import (requires DOC Add-on)
File and buffer size: The editor supports unlimited size text files using Windows' virtual memory capability.
Text and Picture Frames: The editor in the Page Mode allows for frames which can be moved and positioned anywhere on a page.
Source Code: The product is distributed as a DLL with the complete source code. The source code is simple to follow should you ever need to modify it.
Other Features:
Search/replace
Page break and automatic repagination
Page header/footer
Column break
Table support
Optional tool bar
Optional ruler
Optional menu interface
Optional scroll bars
Optional status ribbon
Control over editor window style
Protected and hidden text
Print preview with zoom
Hyperlink link support
Page numbering
Paragraph Spacing
Picture Alignment
Embed other controls