What's New in 13.2.3 (VCL Product Line)

New Major Features in 13.2

Known Issues

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Known Issues in 13.2.3 (VCL Product Line)

The following sections list all minor and major changes in DevExpress VCL 13.2.3. 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

ExpressFlowChart

S173030 - Publish the Anchors property

ExpressQuantumGrid Suite

B252553 - Add the capability to complete the grid configuration wizard on any page

ExpressWizard Control

S172908 - Add the capability to display the Finish and Next buttons simultaneously

Common Libraries

ExpressEditors Library

Q496633 - TcxTreeView - Publish the OnMouseEnter and OnMouseLeave events

ExpressLibrary

S172819 - Image Picker - Add the design-time capability to load an image from TPicture or TBitmap properties of any control residing on a form

Resolved Issues

ExpressBars Suite

Q539675 - AV occurs when an application contains bars with TdxBarControlContainerItem and switching between user accounts without closing the application
B252665 - AV occurs when clicking a TdxBarSubItem after switching between user accounts without closing an application
Q539688 - Clicking a form does not assign True to the Active property of the application that was made inactive by clicking outside the form while an in-place editor located in a submenu had focus
Q558336 - Destroying a bar manager via its Free method doesn't immediately remove built-in dock controls, which results in delayed updates to a form's ControlCount property
B253036 - Documentation - Typos in TdxStatusBarKeyboardState and TdxStatusBarEllipsisType enumeration values
Q538227 - Ribbon - AV when closing a form that contains a gallery group linked to an image list residing on a frame
Q566225 - Ribbon - Maximized MDI child window doesn't occupy the entire main window if the Ribbon controls on these windows are merged
Q563376 - Ribbon - Office 2013 Backstage View - A menu button always reserves space for an image, even when no image is specified for this button
Q555628 - Ribbon - TdxRibbonGalleryItem and TdxRibbonDropDownGallery - Scrolling up from the topmost row in a drop-down gallery using the mouse wheel adds extra space above this row
B253528 - Ribbon - The "List index out of bounds" exception occurs when opening a form if the TdxBarManager component is stored after the TdxRibbon component in the form's DFM file
Q555334 - Ribbon Form - A form whose Position and WindowsState properties are set to poScreenCenter and wsMaximized respectively in Delphi 7 at design time doesn't occupy the entire screen at runtime in Windows XP if Windows themes are enabled
Q557964 - Ribbon Form - AV when clicking any window button if the Ribbon control is not linked to a bar manager and the form's DisableAero property is set to True
B232418 - TdxBarButton does not always synchronize its Down property value with the Checked property of a TAction linked to this bar button
Q465128 - TdxRibbonStatusBar - The Quick Customization Popup Menu is always accessible for submenu items located in a toolbar embedded into a Toolbar panel, regardless of the toolbar's AllowQuickCustomizing property value
Q538722 - TdxTabbedMDIManager - Switching on and then off the Active property produces painting artifacts in a minimized MDI child window

ExpressLayout Control

Q559875 - AV when hovering the mouse pointer over tabs in tabbed groups and modifying settings of the layout control locked for updates with the BeginUpdate method
Q554310 - Size modifications are not applied to controls embedded to a layout control on an inherited form

ExpressPivotGrid Suite

Q557864 - "Control has no parent window" exception occurs when closing an application while the Office 2007 style customization form is visible
Q558809 - The grouping value context menu invoked for a grand total header includes unnecessary expand/collapse items

ExpressPrinting System

Q564842 - TcxMCListBoxReportLink - The DataIndex property of column headers is ignored when building a report
Q564841 - TcxMCListBoxReportLink, TcxShellListViewReportLink, TcxListViewReportLink, TdxDrawGridReportLink, and TdxNativeListViewReportLink - Font and color settings for odd rows/cells are not stored to DFM files
Q563070 - TdxImageReportLink - AV when building a report if a linked component has no image assigned to the Picture property

ExpressQuantumGrid Suite

Q560779 - AV occurs when destroying a form after the currently focused grid record has been switched
Q558205 - Hint is not displayed for a cell with cropped text if the cell's record displays a cell image that occupies more lines than the View's OptionsView.CellTextMaxLineCount property value
Q557230 - Opening a form while the grid is focused sends the CM_EXIT message to this grid

ExpressQuantumTreeList Suite

Q563809 - Changing the TreeList.Font.Size property at runtime does not lead to changing the size of tree list nodes
Q562124 - Per-pixel scrolling with the scrollbar down and up to the top node in a tree list containing a number of nodes displaces the top node

ExpressScheduler Suite

Q465497 - Canceling the Event dialog invoked for the etOccurrence or etCustom occurrence raises the scheduler's OnAfterEditing event for the etPattern event instead
Q535121 - cxSchedulerStorage - AV occurs when calling the Free method of an event created with the storage CreateEvent method if this event is not yet posted
B252806 - Gantt View - A task cannot be dropped into another task group
B200748 - Information returned by the CreateConflictsInfo function called for a parent event includes this event, in error
B253219 - Opening a series for an event's etCustom occurrence opens the occurrence instead
Q564207 - TcxSchedulerDBStorage - The "Could not convert variant of type(String) into type Double" exception is raised when selecting a recurring event's occurrence if the storage' GenerateGUIDForID property is set to True

ExpressSkins Library

Q564475 - Metropolis and Metropolis Dark skins - Captions of the Ribbon tab groups are painted over bottom edges of these groups
Q557639 - TButton is always skinned as a standard push button (bsPushButton) regardless of the Style property setting

ExpressSpreadSheet

Q527229 - Number value in a cell stored as text with currency formating is displayed as currency
B253165 - #VALUE error occurs when the Null cell value participates in a formula

ExpressTile Control

B252787 - A tile group displays an extra space below small tiles in a tile control whose OptionsView.GroupLayout property is set to glVertical
B252776 - Dragging a small tile item over an empty tile group constantly changes the potential drop position
B252643 - Pressing the arrow key immediately after a tile item has been moved using drag and drop moves focus to an incorrect position
B252642 - Scrolling a group into view doesn't display its caption after any end-user interaction has been performed with tile elements using drag and drop
B252688 - The ParentStyle property of a tile frame is reset to False if any of its Style property settings are customized

ExpressVerticalGrid Suite

Q564507 - TcxRTTIInspector - Memory management errors in 64-bit applications

ExpressWizard Control

B253124 - An empty string assigned to a wizard page Header.Description or Header.Title property is not stored to a DFM file

Common Libraries

ExpressEditors Library

Q558697 - cxDateEdit - The "Could not convert variant" exception is thrown when the editor posts an empty string if the Properties.EditFormat property is assigned, and Properties.Kind and Properties.InputKind are set to ckDateTime and ikMask respectively
Q561121 - cxImage - None of the font settings (except for the font name) specified via the Style.Font property can be applied to the image caption
Q561941 - cxImage - The OnMouseEnter or OnMouseLeave event never fires in response to moving the mouse pointer to/from the editor
Q562494 - cxLookupComboBox - Incorrect dataset record is focused on modifying the edit value if the editor's Properties.ListOptions.SyncMode property is set to True and the drop-down lookup with identical cell values is currently closed
Q558384 - Double-clicking a bar item at design time doesn't add an empty implementation of its OnClick event handler into code
B236724 - Error in the TcxOleUILinkInfo.GetNextLink function for 64-bit
Q560487 - TcxCustomEditPopupWindow and its descendants - AV when repainting the popup window after its look & feel painter has been removed from the list referenced by the cxLookAndFeelPaintersManager variable

ExpressLibrary

Q560425 - Adding a BMP file to a TImageList object results in the "File format not supported by imagelist editor" error
B252783 - Enhanced mouse wheel messages are incorrectly handled
B253551 - Image Picker - The dialog invoked for an image property doesn't store a selected image to a DFM file
Q565608 - In RAD Studio XE3 or later, TcxControl descendants store the default Hint property value (an empty string) to a DFM file
Q562448 - The "Stream read error" exception occurs when restoring Extended type values stored on a 32/64-bit platform on another platform (64/32-bit, respectively)
B253140 - The cxGraphics.cxPaintControlTo function incorrectly paints a control that has an empty window region
Q558009 - The cxGraphics.FillGradientRect method produces incorrect gradients in 64-bit applications