Re: TRichView vs WPTools

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Louis Kessler

Posted: 06/12/2003 16:11:30

Several years ago, I tried WPTools but then switched to TRichview.

I work with very large documents and WPTools is much slower (like 10 times

slower) to load and process large documents than TRichview. WPTools also uses

much more memory (about 4 times as much if I recall). I contacted the author

Julian Ziersch and he had said that this was because of the internal

processing in WPTools, which is on a character by character basis. As a

result, he said it was not possible to make it much faster or use less memory.

Louis Kessler

Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

"Sergey Tkachenko" <svt@trichview.com> wrote in message

news:3ee795d7@support.torry.net...

> Some pros for TRichView

> - better support of tables (as far as I know, WPTools does not support:

> nested tables; multiple paragraphs in table cells (try to make one line

> centered and one line left-aligned in WPTools' table cells, or try to create

> a bulleted list in table cell); vertical cell merging; vertical cell

> alignment; background pictures. All the listed features are supported by

> RV);

> - Unicode support;

> - Delphi components in documents;

> - I am not sure here, but it looks like bullets/numbering is more flexible

> in TRichView (can WPTools create a numbering like:

> 1. ****

> 1.a. ****

> 2. ****

> 2.a. ****

> 2.b. ****

> ?)

> - more visually attractive components for creating user interface

> (RichViewActions - http://www.trichview.com/resources/actions/)

> Some pros for WPTools

> - WYSIWYG editing (you can see page size in editor; in TRichView, page size

> can be seen only in read-only TRVPrint)

> - tabs (RichView does not support tab positions yet)

> Some things that I recommend to look at:

> - quality of RTF and HTML import and export (I am quite proud of TRichView

> in this field)

> - convenience of programming interface

> > Hi to all!

> >

> > I am currently examining different text edit controls and find TRichView

> and

> > WPTools to be the best. However they look very similarly to me as

> > functionality and I am wondering what is the difference between them?

> >

> > Has anyone tried both or know the difference?

> >

> > Yours sincerely,

> > Petko

> > Milenix Software Ltd.

> > http://www.milenix.com

> >