What's new in Innovasys PropertiesList 3?

Data Binding

  • Data Access - you can now bind either the ListItems or PropertyItems collections to a data source
  • Integrated browse toolbar for data bound controls

Extended Property Editors

  • Integrated Editor - available for PropertyItems of Style plpsPicture, small images can be edited, plus the editor can be created independantly of the control
  • Popup text editor now supports Find and Replace

New and Extended Property Types

  • Dropdown Font List style displays preview of fonts
  • Checkboxes - display checkboxes or radio buttons to the left of a PropertyItem
  • Dropdown lists can now include pictures and can have different background and foreground colors or font settings
  • PropertyButtons collection, allowing new buttons to be added next to PropertyItems, or existing ones customized
  • "Automatic" color button for the dropdown color button, which can also have its caption customized
  • ListItems can now be hidden if required
  • PropertyItems of style plpsBoolean can now display a checkbox instead of a dropdown list
  • TrueLabel and FalseLabel properties, allowing you to override the True and False labels of boolean PropertyItems on a global scale.

New Customization Features

  • LanguageStrings object, allowing the English phrases in the control to be translated
  • New DescriptionBox control
  • ColumnHeaders collection, allowing customization of the columns
  • Improved and expanded ownerdraw functionality
  • Many additional styles for use with the BorderStyles property
  • TextAlignment property, allowing the alignment of text in an empty PropertiesList control to be customized
  • Ability to link WinHelp and HTML Help topics to PropertyItems, or provide your own help methods
  • End users can resize the caption and value columns without the column headers being visible by dragging the point where the two columns meet
  • New properties for the PropertyItem object allowing you to further fine tune how a PropertyItem operates and looks

Integrated Helper Controls

  • Toolbar - an integrated toolbar which can be aligned to any axis of the PropertiesList control and configured using the ToolItems collection
  • "New Row" functionality, allowing new property items to be created by entering data into an alignment edit field

Visual Improvements

  • Windows XP Theme support for user interface elements such as column headers, scrollbars and toolbar buttons
  • Improved scrolling when dragging PropertyItems

Other New Features

  • DeleteAction property, allowing you to define the default behaviour when the Delete key is pressed
  • Improved object population, including the ability to populate a PropertiesList control from just a ProgId
  • Global ListItems collection, allowing one or more PropertyItem objects to share the same ListItems collection
  • New sorting facilities, including the Sort method and AutoSort, SortColumn, Sorted and SortOrder properties, including the ability to sort a PropertiesList control by clicking the column header