Grid, TreeList, and Vertical Grid adds new display style for filter criteria.
Features
UX Enhancements
- Smooth Scrolling - This release adds smooth scrolling support to the following DevExpress VCL components:
- Grid Control.
- TreeList Control.
- Vertical Grid Control.
- Layout Control.
- Print Preview.
- Content Padding Options - With this release, the VCL Grid, TreeList, Pivot Grid, and Vertical Grid controls introduce a quick way to pad their in-place editors and/or headers and adjust the spacing between certain UI elements. Use the new TdxVisualRefinements.Padding and TdxVisualRefinements.HeaderPadding class properties to specify the padding for each side of an element.
- New Display Style for Filter Criteria - The Filter Box available in the VCL Grid, TreeList, and Vertical Grid controls now supports a new visual style displayed in the image below. This style helps end-users easily differentiate between colorized filter items, modify or clear individual filter conditions.
Grid Control
- Custom Row Layouts in Table and Banded Table Views (CTP) - Custom row layouts allow users to arrange cells in a way similar to the one Layout View provides, with numerous customization options available at design and runtime.
- Performance Enhancements
- Content is rendered up to two times faster.
- Layout calculations in Banded Table Views are up to three times faster.
- OnGetFilterValues event handlers almost instantly populate filter dropdowns with items.
- Lookup column values are sorted 30% faster.
Spreadsheet
- Ability to obtain document metadata, modify and save the changes you made to it.
- New built-in dialogs that allow users to manage defined names.
Layout Control
- Performance Enhancements in Customization Mode
- Selection is updated 25 times faster than in previous versions.
- The optimized drag-and-drop operations make the UI more responsive and accelerate layout calculations by 30%.
- Miscellaneous Enhancements
- The SizeOptions.MaxWidth and SizeOptions.MaxHeight properties now operate as dimension constraints in layout items and groups.
- Ability to shorten long element captions with an ellipsis and specify its position.