Handling Right-to-Left Layouts

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The Spread component can support right-to-left layouts. Right-to-left features support applications where the language is written from right to left, such as Hebrew, Arabic, or Farsi, so the user interface would be displayed naturally with right-to-left orientation.

Most of the right-to-left functionality for the Spread component is inherited from the underlying .NET framework, but there are a few properties that can be set to instruct Spread to display the layout right-to-left. Currently these aspects of the layout are changed with the right to left support:

cell editing
column resizing on right instead of left
direction attribute in HTML export
filter and sort indicators
order of columns
popup and sticky notes and cell note indicators
scroll bars
shapes
sheet corners
sheet name tabs
viewport columns

The members that are used with right-to-left support include:

Member	Description
RightToLeft property	Gets or sets whether the object should paint right to left
OnRightToLeftChanged method	Raises the RightToLeft event in the Microsoft.NET Framework
SpreadActions class	These actions are added: ExtendToNextColumnVisual ExtendToPreviousColumnVisual MoveToNextColumnVisual MoveToPreviousColumnVisual ScrollToNextColumnVisual ScrollToPreviousColumnVisual