Printing Memo or Rich Text to text file

rbuser

Hi
How can I print to file report that contains memo and rich text fields?
Jeka

nardmoseley

There are two plain text output formats in RB.

- TextFile

This is a delimited text format. Use the File | PageSetup dialog of the
report designer to configure which components to export. Memo and RichText
are not supported. Therefore you need to use a Label or Variable that has
its Visible property set to False except when printing to file. When
exporting to file, set the label caption or the variable value to contain
the value of Memo.Text or RichText.PlainText.

Use the Report.BeforePrint event to check whether Report.FileDevice <> nil,
to determine whether a report is being exported to a file.

- ReportTextFile

This is a text version of the report layout. Memo are supported. RichText
memos are not supported. Run RBuilder\Demos\Reports\Demo.dpr and check out
demo 107.




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Nard Moseley
Digital Metaphors
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