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edited September 2002 in Subreports
Is there a way to only access components within a certain section subreport?
The reason I ask I have a report made up of many section subreports. But
only one of these subreports is used, the other's visible property is false.
However, there are certain component properties within the subreport that I
need to modify. As it is right now, my code evaluates every component
within the entire report, thereby causing the report to take a very long
time to appear. By accessing only those components within a subreport whose
visible property is true, would greatly reduce the processing time thereby
displaying the report faster.

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Jeff Kreider

Comments

  • edited September 2002
    You can loop through the controls on a subreport in a similar way that you
    loop through the controls of a report. In fact, I don't think that just
    looping through the report bands will reach the controls on a subreport.

    Here is a recursive routine I use to set all the controls on a report to
    black font. You should be able to see how to loop through just a chosen
    subreport from this.

    procedure AssignBlackFont(aReport: TppCustomReport);
    var
    liBand: Integer;
    liObject: Integer;
    lObject: TppComponent;
    begin
    for liBand := 0 to aReport.BandCount-1 do
    for liObject := 0 to aReport.Bands[liBand].ObjectCount-1 do begin
    lObject := aReport.Bands[liBand].Objects[liObject];
    if lObject is TppSubReport then
    with lObject as TppSubReport do begin
    AssignBlackFont(report);
    end;
    if lObject.HasFont then
    lObject.Font.color := clBlack;
    end;
    end;

    HTH
    Sarah

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