Alt+F4 appears to crash preview form

rbuser

When I press Alt+F4 in a preview form (Report Builder standard dialog,
not my own), I get an access violation, with lovely addresses all 0's.
What might be causing this? I tried assigning an OnKeyDown method to the
ppReport's PreviewForm, but it did not intercept the key. Must I make a
custom previewer to handle this?

TIA.
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digitalmetaphors

I can't reproduce this behavior. I tried both at Delphi design time and at
runtime on Delphi5 (RB 5.56 and RB 6.01) and D6 (RB 6.01). This was on a
Win 2K machine. Did you receive any AV's prior to this? If you close your
Delphi session and start a new session of Delphi, does the error persist?

What version of RB/Delphi/Windows are you using?

You shouldn't have to make a custom previewer.


Cheers,

Jim Bennett
Digital Metaphors

rbuser

Jim,

Thanks for your reply. I have a little more information now. But first an
answer to your question. I did NOT have any AV's prior to this.

I am using RB 5 (latest version thereof, downloaded about a month ago)
and D5. (I am considering upgrading to RB 6 though, but will wait until I
have this problem solved.) I am running Win NT Workstation 4.0, SP3, but
this behavior is reproducible on two different Win95C machines.

My application just consists of a single form and a data module (other
than some reports, none of which are auto-created). The report is invoked
as the result of a button click. When on the preview, if I press Alt+F4,
it closes the calling form (I.i.e.., the whole application), which is NOT
the desired behavior. For that matter, if I just press Alt, the calling
form comes forward and its menu is invoked!

In my custom preview, I tried putting in handling for Alt+F4, but it
doesn't seem to be working. (And I'd rather not be using a custom preview
anyway.)

Thanks in advance for your continued assistance.

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