advantages for Background Printing?

rbuser

Hi!

First of all, I have noticed that you forgot to translate the "Search Text"
buttons into Spanish. Please, translate it for future release.
You sent me the RB Translation application, but I can't save it because to
the RC file (it shows an error message, "couln't find path x:\...").

But my question is that...
What are the advantages for the background printing in the last release?

Thanx!!

digitalmetaphors

The latest translation app is available for download with the latest strings
for RB 7.02 to be translated. You are right, the text search strings have
not been translated at this time for all translations. I've emailed our
translators and our translators are working on them. You can build a custom
translation for yourself if you would like in the mean time. The installed
rbStringTranslator.exe should be able to locate the strings database it
installs and generate the rc files. Then you can use the bat files to build
the resources to dlls that RB can use. The readme.doc in the install
explains how to build a translation.

http://www.digital-metaphors.com/lang/rbLang.exe


Cheers,

Jim Bennett
Digital Metaphors

digitalmetaphors

The reason you would want to use backgruond printing is when you want the
end user to print a report and have it generate in a background thread so
that the end user can continue using the main application. Otherwise, the
user will wait until the entire report generates its pages to be sent to the
printer or file output (you can give them a cancel dialog during this
process). If you have a report that takes 5 minutes to generate the pages
because of lengthy queries, slow network, or many calculations, it may be
advantageous for the user to print the report in a background thread and
continue using the app. For example they could be creating a new report in
the report designer while the other report is generating. The background
report thread priority is low so the performance of the main application is
best.


Cheers,

Jim Bennett
Digital Metaphors