What's New in 14.1.5 (VCL Product Line)
New Major Features in 14.1
What's New in VCL Products 14.1
Breaking Changes
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Breaking Changes in 14.1.5 (VCL Product Line)
Known Issues
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Known Issues in 14.1.5 (VCL Product Line)
The following sections list all minor and major changes in DevExpress VCL 14.1.5. Note that products, controls and libraries which aren't mentioned in the list below are included in the unified installer for compatibility, but have not been updated.
Enhancements and Updates
New Features/Updates
ExpressBars Suite
- T159143 - Ribbon - Restore the capability to create two-line gallery group captions using a CRLF sequence, which was removed in v2011 vol 1.6
ExpressLayout Control
- S173582 - Customization Form - Improve drag-and-drop operations within the Layout Tree View pane
ExpressSpreadsheet
- T153424 - Highlight cell ranges that correspond to references contained in a cell's formula being edited
Common Libraries
ExpressEditors Library
- S171203 - Make the TcxCustomFontNameComboBoxProperties.FFontLoader field protected
ExpressLibrary
- T152765 - Documentation - Add a note that all controls except Ribbon UI elements require TcxHintStyleController to display ScreenTips created with TdxScreenTipRepository
Resolved Issues
ExpressBars Suite
- T146438 - Ribbon - A bar manager's SaveTo~ methods store incorrect settings if the Ribbon control has merged tabs
- T157131 - Ribbon - Customization Form - Bar items are always displayed in the form regardless their Visible property setting
- T145572 - Ribbon - Customization Form - The Ctrl+Del key combination removes an element that is currently focused on the "Choose commands from" or "Customize the Ribbon" list
- T155303 - Ribbon - TdxRibbonBackstageView - Certain Backstage View elements blend with a background if one of the High Contrast themes is applied
- T154345 - Ribbon - The Ribbon Customization form incorrectly displays merged tabs and their content, and as a result, might cause customization issues
- T150241 - The dxBarPopup method incorrectly converts menu item images
ExpressDocking Library
- T148646 - Setting the TdxDockingManager.LookAndFeel.NativeStyle property to True causes the "Stack overflow" exception if Windows themes are disabled
ExpressFlowChart
- T151456 - Ellipse-shaped elements are not shown if the Antialiasing property is set to True
ExpressMapControl
- T153353 - The space occupied by cached images loaded by an image tile layer can exceed the limit specified by the layer's Provider.CacheOptions.DiskLimit property
ExpressOrgChart
- T152733 - Ellipse-shaped nodes are not shown if the Antialiasing property is set to True
ExpressPrinting System
- T150305 - Export To PDF - Right-to-left text is exported in reverse order
- T151696 - SpreadSheet Report Link - A cell appears misaligned if the Number format and the General horizontal alignment are applied to it
- T146967 - SpreadSheet Report Link - Merged cells whose border style is other than sscbsDefault print their borders over cell content
ExpressQuantumGrid Suite
- T155876 - Programmatically assigning a View to the grid's FocusedView property doesn't focus the View's site
- T152838 - Server Mode - "List index out of bounds" error occurs when calling View's DataController.Groups.LoadRecordIndexes method
- T150797 - TcxFilterControl - An exception occurs when applying a filter condition created with the IN or NOT IN operator whose only value to compare is an empty string
ExpressQuantumTreeList Suite
- T146426 - TcxDBTreeList - It is impossible add new records to the dataset from the OnFocusedNodeChanged event handler
ExpressScheduler Suite
- T149250 - Clicking the Windows taskbar icon of a non-modal Event dialog activates the dialog's window if a modal child window is currently active in an application
ExpressSpreadsheet
- T154855 - Deleting/inserting cells incorrectly updates cells and cell ranges referenced by formulas
- T151793 - Standard number formats saved by localized versions of Excel are incorrectly loaded from an XLS file
- T149705 - The Copy/Paste operation incorrectly update non-absolute references in formulas
- T151703 - The dxSpreadSheetFormatsRepository.GetOpenDialogFilter and dxSpreadSheetFormatsRepository.GetSaveDialogFilter functions return incorrect filter strings for the Open File/Save As dialogs
- T151247 - The worksheet whose Options.Protected property is set to True prohibits content modifications of unlocked cells
- T154857 - Undoing the operation that deletes/inserts cells referenced by formulas incorrectly updates corresponding cells and cell ranges in these formulas
ExpressTile Control
- T149715 - A tile group's caption editor is painted with the color specified by the group's Caption.Font.Color property if a skin is applied by passing a skin controller
- T150278 - Hiding a tile group from view by resizing the tile control or scrolling its content makes the group's caption editor still visible on screen
- T158620 - Loading an image to the title's Glyph property at runtime doesn't immediately update the title's glyph
Installation (VCL)
- T152283 - Setup doesn't compile the packages that require TeeChart VCL components for RAD Studio XE7
Common Libraries
ExpressEditors Library
- T151929 - All drop-down controls - Closing the control's drop-down window that was opened while an in-place editor had its drop-down window open causes the "Control has no parent window" exception
- T147995 - cxDateEdit - An AV occurs when pressing the Left Arrow and Right Arrow keys while the cursor is positioned at the rightmost position of the selected edit value
- T154625 - cxImageComboBox - The Properties->Items property returns NULL in C++Builder XE7
- T151123 - dxFader - The clBlack background in TcxCustomEdit descendants is incorrectly faded
- T150199 - Image editors - Metafile images are incorrectly loaded
- T118725 - TcxLookupComboBox - Columns displayed in the drop-down window are too narrow to display their content if the Properties.DropDownAutoSize property is set to True
- Q586757 - TcxPopupEdit - Re-activating an application window that was made inactive while displaying the popup editor's drop-down window causes the "Control has no parent window" exception
- T150351 - TcxSplitter - Assigning the Control property raises an exception if the splitter handle is not allocated yet
ExpressLibrary
- T157164 - TcxScrollBar - Changing the thumb size enables dragging the thumb over scroll buttons