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Template Offset Buggy

rbuserrbuser
edited September 2002 in General
Hello All:

We just started using the offset to store report information in our rtm
files per the tech tip in your newsgroups. We use RB 6.02 and Delphi 5.

This works great at run-time with the perscribed events

LoadReportStreamEvent(Sender: TObject;Stream: TStream);
SaveReportStreamEvent(Sender: TObject;Stream: TStream);

PROBLEM: You cannot modify a report at design time. We place the correct
offset into the report component and once we save it, THE REPORT BECOMES
CORRUPTED.

THIS MAKES OFFSETS USELESS TO US. Per your newsgroups this is a known
bug.

What can we do to resolve this problem ??? Switching to your report
designer is not desirable. Do you have any suggestions ???

Please help. This is holding up the automation of our report
distribution.

Thank you.


Neil Huhta
Profit Monster Data Systems LLC

Comments

  • rbuserrbuser
    edited September 2002
    "Huhtaman" wrote in message news:3d84a9c3@dm500....
    report
    As I said, the workaround that we got from DM support is to use the
    designer component instead of using the IDE designer. You can do pretty
    much everything in the designer component that you can do in the IDE.
    If you can be specific in what is preventing you from using the designer
    component then maybe we can find some workaround. You can set most, if
    not all of the properties by right clicking any object in the report.

    distribution.
    I am not sure why DM chose not to address this issue in RB 7. I kept
    quiet because the workaround was good enough for me. Although, I still
    think this is a nasty bug which wasted lot of my man hours and that DM
    should have paid more attention to this. The least that they could have
    done is to atleast published this as a known issue. I am not ranting
    against DM. I just love RB but a bug is a bug.

    My 2 cents..

    Vikram
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