Drawing in a Report

rbuser

I need to create a seating chart for the legislature. So I need to be able
to add Arcs and Diagonal lines to the report. I see the ability to add
circles, squares and lines, but not the Arcs and diagonal lines. The report
needs to show them in a semi-circle type seating arrangement.

I there a way for Report Builder to draw a single diagonal line and an arc
line?

digitalmetaphors

One solution is to use the Paintbox component available from our website so
that you can draw in the report.
http://www.digital-metaphors.com/rcl/twpaintbox.zip

Otherwise, we do not support this natively. However, you can code this
functionality and it will work. The line component and draw command need to
be extended to do this. You can create your own custom descendents and
register a new line component to replace the current line component. See
the RBuilder\Demos\RCL directory for info on creating your own custom
component. You'll also need to create a new line draw command whcih can
support diagonal lines and arcs.

Once you have a component which can create a diagonal line and draw command,
you can move to the devices. The current devices cannot render a diagonal
line. The devices need to be modified, you canYou can copy the screen device
and printer device classes into new units and change the class names. You
can then register these as new device replacements. Now you have your own
devices that you can modify and use specifically for these reports so that
they can preview/print diagonal lines. When these reports are loaded you
can make the registration calls to swap out the devices from the default
screen device and printer device.


Cheers,

Jim Bennett
Digital Metaphors