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ANN: ReportBuilder 15.01 is now available

edited August 2013 in General
Digital Metaphors Corporation announces the release of ReportBuilder 15.01!


ReportBuilder 15.01 includes VCL support for Delphi XE4, XE3, XE2, XE,
2010, 2009, 2007, and Delphi 7.

Notification emails have been sent to all registered users of
ReportBuilder 15.x. If you did not receive notification of this release
please send message to
info@digital-metaphors.com with your serial number and purchasing email
address for upgrade instructions.


Overview & screenshots:
http://www.digital-metaphors.com/rbWiki/General/What's_New/RB_15

New Feature List: http://www.digital-metaphors.com/PDF/NewFeatures.pdf

Pricing: http://www.digital-metaphors.com/order/


Upgrade Now!


Enhancements for RB 15.01
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- FireDAC, added DADE plug-in*
- FireDAC, added End User demos for MS Access, Interbase
- QRCode, added CharacterEncoding property
- PDFSettings, added CanvasInitOrigin property

*FireDAC notes:
- Delphi XE4, DADE binaries installed if FireDAC detected
- All Delphi versions, DADE source installed to RBuilder\Source


Bug Fixes for RB 15.01
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Designer
- Zoom, enhanced to load/save zoom scale to preferences
- Zoom, added Designer.Form.Scale property for program control
- Fixed destroy AV that can occur when TppDesigner used within a TFrame
- Subreport design control was not drawing dotted border/frame
- Design Layer fix for case when object w/in Region in different layer
- Object Inspector, When editing a value, update the property on exit
- Design Layers, Improved form inheritance support
- CalcOrderDialog, TreeView not displaying Bands (Delphi XE and later)
- Copy/Paste, Added ability to Paste a component to a selected band

DataPipeline
- Improved form inheritance support for AutoCreateFields feature
- TextPipeline, updated Help reference with Encoding property info
- TextPipeline, bug fix for Unicode files that do not contain a BOM

Engine
- Only call Thread.Synchronize when generating for scrollable page preview
- Fix for calculating ReportBandCount, which is used for data export

RCL
- Report, DefaultFileDeviceType was not loading from templates
- Band, made GetBandType protected and virtual
- TableGrid, fix for memory leak
- TableGrid, improved popup menu behavior
- TableGrid, when cell has no border, draw a dotted line border for
designer
- TableGrid, when cols added, ensure grid with does not exceed page width
- Memo, RemoveEmptyLines feature was not functioning for Delphi 7
- SystemVariable, When Copies = 2, render 'Copy' rather than 'Copy 1'
- SystemVariable, Text not displayed in the Design workspace
- Image, Metafiles with DirectDraw False, not rendered correctly
- Image, Fixed support for AlignVertical/Horizontal
- Region, Fix for Region BringToFont/SendToBack
- 2DBarCode, Fixed Invalid Stream Read error.
- TeeChart, Updated TeeChart packages for TeeChart Pro for Delphi XE4

Output
- Preview, No Data Dialog displayed twice, when called from search
tool button
- Preview Thumbnails, Viewer not updating when resizing in some cases
- Preview Thumbnails, Fixed mem leak when toggling to Preview multiple
times
- Printer, New GraphicsContext.OffSet not calculated for PrinterDevice
- Printer, Fix for PrinterSetup initialization
- PrintDialog, Set Panel.ParentBackground True, to support theme colors
- PDF, Should not embed standard fonts
- PDF, Bold & italic fonts not rendering correctly in non-latin locales
- PDF, 2DBarcodes not aligning correctly in PDF
- PDF, Lowercase font names not exporting correctly
- PDF, Improved accuracy for multi-charset bidi script text
- PDF, Fixed AV when cancelling a report during generation
- PDF, Improved text underline support for metafiles
- PDF, Added ScaleWindowExt support for metafiles
- XLS, Fix for rendering rotated text when AutoSize is true
- Improved backward compatability for the deprecated Open-File
properties of each file device

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DADE
- SQL, Stealth mode SQL was saved to templates in some cases
- SQL/SQLText, Added public FormatParamValue method
- IBO plug-in, Fixed error when retrieving table name list
- TdaQueryWizardCalcDialog and TdaQueryWizardCriteriaDialog now
descend from TppForms


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