EOutOfResources with TppRichText Component

rbuser

Hello,

here is a little application, which gives me an error on few printers. My
configuration is :
W98 SE, Delphi 4 SP3, RB 6.01, EPSON EPL5800L printer.

On NT workstation, when I click on Preview1 or Preview2, all works fine. On
W98 workstation,
I get EOutOfResources error.

But on NT or W98 workstation, when I click on Print, application runs
correctly.

Digital Metaphors support have talked to me to use others printer drivers
but my customer can change easy their drivers.

I think there is a bug, isn't it ?

My last tests was made with RB 5.56 and I'd errors. But not errors with RB
5.54 !!!

Please, give me THE solution !

Best regards,

Laurent VARES.

digitalmetaphors

Please, do not post attachments to the newsgroup, however small it may be.
Perhaps post a link to a website where the project can be downloaded
instead- Thanks.

It does sound like the printer driver for Win 98 needs to be upgraded. The
bug would be in the printer driver, since it is different for each version
of Windows. It works in NT driver, but not 98 driver. Can you download the
latest driver from Epson or does their latest also give an eOutofResources
error?

Cheers,

Jim Bennett
Digital Metaphors

rbuser

> It does sound like the printer driver for Win 98 needs to be upgraded.
The
the

Jim:

I didn't download the test, but it may not be a printer driver issue. There
are a lot more resource limitations in Windows 9x machines then in NT/2k
machines.

Ed Dressel
Team DM

rbuser

Thank's for your response.

However, I can say that to my customers !

I said I had no error with oldest version of RB (5.54 for example). I think
component use more resources than the oldest (with few printer driver but
not with others) but I don't know why.

My example runs correctly with HP Deskjet 930C driver but not with EPSON
drivers and others.

Please, try my little project !

Best regards,

Laurent VARES.

digitalmetaphors

You're right Ed. I didn't see it until now, these lines cause Win98 to run
out of memory for this report.

ppReport1.DeviceType := dtPrinter;
ppViewer1.Report := ppReport1;
ppReport1.Print;

Win 98 can't handle printing to the screen and to the printer at the same
time. It raises an exception in the Delphi source. Comment out the viewer
and it prints with no problem.


Cheers,

Jim Bennett
Digital Metaphors