Field support? And Cross-platform support?

[Rob Ainscough]

My company is thinking about purchasing this RTF for Silverlight (4 and 5) and I had a couple of questions:

1.  Does this control support the use of "Fields" that can set to a binding source at runtime ... such as a collection of objects?

2.  Are there any cross-platform issues with using this control?  (i.e. will it work on OSX?)

3.  Any issues running in OOB mode with elevated and/or full trust (i.e. SL5)?

Thanks, Rob.

[Iva Toteva]

Hi Rob,

We're glad to hear that you are considering using our control. Hopefully, it will suit the needs of your project.
Now, to your questions:

1.  Does this control support the use of "Fields" that can set to a binding source at runtime ... such as a collection of objects?
RadRichTextBox supports the following fields - PageField, DateField, InsertPictureField and MergeField. All these have been implemented and are ready to use. Judging from the description of your scenario, MergeFields would be suitable for your case. More information on them can be found in this article. You can also implement custom fields inheriting from the CodeBasedField abstract class.

2.  Are there any cross-platform issues with using this control?  (i.e. will it work on OSX?)
    We are not aware of any cross-platform issues on OSX in the latest versions of the control.

3.  Any issues running in OOB mode with elevated and/or full trust (i.e. SL5)?
     There are some limitations in the functionality when running in OOB mode, such as HTML printing and print preview will not work. Other than that, there should be no issues running OOB.
     When it comes to SL5, as it has not been officially released yet, it is not supported for now. When the official release is out, we will make sure to support it.

I hope this answers your questions.

Kind regards,
Iva
the Telerik team

[Rob Ainscough]

Iva,

Thanks for the response.  Could I get more details on OOB known issues?  Can I still print the RichTextBox content with correct formatting in OOB?

SL5 is schedule to release before year end (I think December), could I get a time frame on how long it would take to get the next RadControls update that would support SL5?

Many thanks,

Rob

[Boby]

Hello Rob Ainscough,
HTML printing and HTML print preview uses some javascript to open a new browser window (used to print/visualize the document content exported as HTML) - which is not possible in OOB mode. You can use the native Silverlight printing, however it's bitmap based and is quite slow, even with small documents. Once Silverlight 5 is released, we will utilize the vector-based printing possiblity, and you will be able to print documents in OOB mode at reasonable speed.

We will provide a Silverlight 5 version of the controls shortly after the Silverlight 5 RTM is out.

All the best,
Boby
the Telerik team