Feature difference between TE Edit Control and TX Text Control – PB Docs 2019

Double-byte languages

Unsupported

Double-byte languages such as Korean, Japanese
are not supported well in TE Edit Control.

InputFieldBackColor property

Limitation

For TE Edit Control, this property will not take
effect until you save the data into a PDF file or print the
data; which means, when you preview the UI in the design view
or when you run the UI, you will always see the background
color is gray, only when you save the data to a PDF file or
print the data, you will see the background color is changed
to what you set.

Wordwrap property

Limitation

For TE Edit Control, this property is always true
(it cannot be set to false).

BackColor property

Difference

For TE Edit Control, if you set a negative value
for the BackColor property, the returned value will be 0 and
the color will be black.

For TX Text Control, if
you set a negative value for the BackColor property, the
returned value will be 16777215 and the color will be
white.

BottomMargin/RightMargin/LeftMargin/TopMargin
properties

Difference

For TE Edit Control, if you set a negative value,
the returned value will be 0.

For TX Text Control,
if you set a negative value, the returned value will be the
negative value.

Find function

Enhancement

For TE Edit Control, the Find function can not
only find the text string, but also can find the carriage
return characters and some special characters.

GetTextColor/GetTextStyle functions and font
settings

Difference

For TE Edit Control, this function will return
the settings (text color, font name, text style etc.) of the
first character of the selected text if the selected text
contains more than one type of settings.

For TX
Text Control, this property will return empty if the selected
text contains more than one type of settings.

GetAlignment/GetSpacing/GetParagraphSetting
functions

Difference

For TE Edit Control, this function will return
the alignment (or spacing or paragraph settings) of the
paragraph where the insertion point is located if more than
one paragraph are selected.

For TX Text Control,
this property will return null if more than one paragraph with
different alignments (or spacing or paragraph settings) are
selected.

GetParagraphSetting function

Difference

The returned value is different between TE Edit
Control and TX Text Control due to the different units
used.

Visio drawings

New feature

Visio drawings can be pasted or inserted into TE
Edit Control.

Preview

New feature

All pages can be previewed (by scrolling) in TE
Edit Control; while only the first page can be previewed in TX
Text Control.

SelectedPage function

Limitation

For TE Edit Control, the SelectedPage function
returns the number of the page which is being viewed (rather
than where the insertion point is placed).

ShowHeadFoot function

Difference

When the document is in preview mode, TX Text
Control returns 1; while TE Edit Control returns 1 and closes
the preview mode, and when the parameter is true, the
insertion point is placed to the header band; when the
parameter is false, the insertion point is placed to the
detail band.

ReplaceText function

Limitation

In TE Edit Control, the text after replaced will
take over the settings (such as font name, font size etc.)
carried over by the given string.

SaveDocument function

Limitation

In TE Edit Control, when saving to HTML, the
image will lose some quality and will be saved as individual
files separately from the document and the reference to the
image file uses the absolute path,.

CopyRTF function

Difference

TE Edit Control will return a longer string which
contains more types of information.

Insertion point

Difference

When the user switches the editor band (e.g. from
the header/footer band to the detail band), the insertion
point is placed to the last column and last row in TE Edit
Control, while the insertion point’s last position will be
remembered and restored in TX Text Control, if it is the firs
time, the insertion point is placed to the first column and
first row.

Input field

Difference

TE Edit Control limits the length of the input
field data to no more than 2000 characters while TX Text
Control has no such limitation.

Font

Difference

In TE Edit Control, if the user uses a
non-English input method to input the English characters, the
inserted characters appear like using a different font than
the other characters, although they actually use the same
font.

Image

Difference

In TE Edit Control, when the user tries to
manually select an image (only image, no text), the user can
only select it by dragging from end to beginning, but cannot
select by dragging from beginning to end.

Bullet list alignment

Issue

In TE Edit Control, the bullet symbol is cut off
in a rich-text edit style column under the preview mode or
print mode because the bullet list is not perfectly aligned
with the body text.