AntView 2.0.629 release

July 13, 2026

Release of AntView version 2.0.629

• Highlights of AntView 2.0.629 are:
• New functionality in the main AntView interface, such as setting the background color and transparency, determining rasterization scale of the rendered page.
• Fixes of several bugs
• Examples for Microsoft Access

New functionality:

AntView interface:

Properties:

•   AllowExternalDrop
•   Bounds
•   BoundsMode
•   DefaultBackgroundColor
•   DetectMonitorScaleChanges
•   RasterizationScale
•   Transparent

Methods:

Events:

•   OnCreateControl
•   OnRasterizationScaleChanged
•   OnResize

AntViewGlobal interface:

Properties:

•   DisablePropertyCachingBugfix
•   DisableBooleanPropertyBugfix

Added AntViewRectangle interface:

Properties:

•   Bottom
•   Left
•   Right
•   Top

Events:

•   OnDestroy

Enum interfaces:

TxBoundsMode

Examples:

The exchangeRate examples stopped working as the API that it queried had changed the basic URL scheme. This has been addressed.

The Browser demo used a URL scheme with TLD .local as an example for the SetVirtualHostNameToFolderMapping function, this is changed to use TLD .localhost as that is much faster. (In other words we changed the url from rijksmuseum.local to rijksmuseum.localhost)

Added examples for MS Access users.

Added an example for using BoundsMode and RasterizationScale in the VB6 examples: VB6 DPI Aware Applications

Bug fixes:

Bug Fix:

There was a problem where setting a number of properties in the OnCreateWebViewCompleted method was ignored due to how our property caching mechanism worked. 

This has been corrected. More details in Bugfix: Property caching called too late.

You can disable the bugfix by setting the property DisablePropertyCachingBugfix to true and the caching continues to work as in earlier versions of AntView.

Bug Fix:

For boolean properties we were using the wrong integer value when setting the property to true. This caused issues for a few properties (but not all). More details in Bugfix: Boolean property True value incorrect.

You can disable the bugfix by setting the property DisableBooleanPropertyBugfix to true and the way the boolean properties are working is identical as in earlier versions of Antview.

Bug Fix:

The OnActivate event was never called when the AntView control was used from within VB6 or VBA based applications. The form activation logic when hosted in these Visual Basic based applications just works differently. 

Logic has been added to take this into account and the event is now send as expected.

Bug and documentation Fix:

The property Visible for the AntView control was not documented and was set as hidden by the control. It was however available for environments that ignored this “hidden” ActiveX property feature. 

Now the property is there for everyone.