Bypassing preview in RAP

rbuser

Hi,

Could you tell me if this is feasable?

I want to use RAP to bypass the preview of the report but still read the
code I have inside the RAP to select the PrinterName and the BinName. Then
I want to print directly to the printer and bin (Tray) that I assigned in
RAP.

Is this possible and could you give me some hints? I seem to be in a dead
end.

Thanks a bunch!

Dominique

digitalmetaphors

Set Report.DeviceType to printer and call Report.Print. The RAP code will
execute when the report runs. I guess you'll also want to set
Report.ShowPrintDialog to false since you have your own code to configure
the printer setup.


Cheers,

Jim Bennett
Digital Metaphors

rbuser

Hi Jim, Thanks for the quick answer.

Excuse my lack of knowledge of Pascal, but in what event/procedure do I call
these 3 lines of code.
I tried to add them in a few different places like BeforePrint and OnCreate
but it still previews it on the screen.

Also I get an error when using Report.Print (Expected: '(' or '[', but found
'Print' instead)

Also, since the report is generated from a third party, if that 3rd party is
generating the report to 'Screen' is it possible that this is overwriting my
RAP code?

Thanks a lot.

Dominique

digitalmetaphors

This would be called from Delphi code for a report, not from RAP code so
that you wouldn't show the designer. You can't by pass the preview if you in
the report designer in code. One way to do it from the UI is to use the
standard toolbar which has a printer icon to print while you are in the
design workspace. Right click over the toolbar area and select the standard
toolbar to enable this toolbar.


Cheers,

Jim Bennett
Digital Metaphors