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FarPoint Spread 8 (COM) Beta Posted!

While nearly all of the other component vendors have fully abandoned their COM product line we are happy to announce that the beta for the latest COM version of Spread is now ready for download.

 

WHAT’S NEW

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New Features

 

 - New Formula Functions

- Ability to create a custom cell

- A 64-bit DLL control

- Shape and color settings for cell notes

- New OCX methods for saving and loading to/from a buffer

- New event for circular references

 

Enhancements

 

- Enhanced appearance

- Enhanced appearance for headers and sheet corners

- Enhanced appearance for scroll bars

- Enhanced appearance for sheet tabs

- Enhanced selection highlighting

- Additional export options when exporting to HTML

- Users can apply a secondary sort using control-click

 

We’re still looking for beta testers to run this through their existing projects and verify that with all the changes we’ve implemented, we didn’t break anything. If you would like to be part of the testing, please send an email to beta@fpoint.com.

 

- Donald

Published Tuesday, September 09, 2008 3:06 PM by donald
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Comments

 

yianeco said:

Hi Donald,

Just downloaded and installed the beta.

1. It's going to be quite a lot work for migrating from 7 to 8

2. No VB syntax for Custom type cells ?

3. Due to incompatibility of visual dbase I am using and the Spread7 a fellow programmer came up with the following extern command to by pass the problems.

It seems that the second part has changed in Spread8. Can you please help:

extern clogical setrheight(chandle,clong,cdouble) fpspru70.ocx from"_SSSetRowHeight@16"

extern clogical setcwidth(chandle,clong,cdouble) fpspru70.ocx from"_SSSetColWidth@16"

extern chandle SetFocusToSpread(chandle) user32 from "SetFocus"

extern clogical getcell(chandle,cptr clong,cptr clong,clong,clong) fpspru70.ocx from"_SSGetCellFromPixel@20"

extern chandle getresource(chandle,cptr,cptr,clong) fpspru70.ocx from"_SSLoadResPicture@16"

extern chandle setpic(chandle,cptr,clong,chandle,chandle,clogical) fpspru70.ocx from"_SSSetTypePictureHandle@24"

extern clogical setcelltype(chandle,clong,clong,cptr) fpspru70.ocx from"_SSSetCellTyp

September 9, 2008 4:05 PM
 

donald said:

yianeco,

Please post support questions over on the Spread COM forum - http://www.clubfarpoint.com/Forums/forums/default.aspx?GroupID=9. Our support teams don't monitor the blogs, only the forums.

Migrating from v7 to v8 should be very straight forward, as was the previous COM upgrades.

- Donald

September 10, 2008 9:34 AM
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