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Options:
1. Use RAP code (i.e. the Calc workspace included with ReportBuilder
Enterprise) to code an event-handler for the Label.OnPrint event. In the RAP
event-handler call your Delphi function. Note: You can easily exten… -
For an example of dynamically formatting richtext check out demo 29
(dm0029.pas) in RBuilder\Demos\Reports\Demo.dpr.
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Nard Moseley
Digital Metaphors Corporation
Have a look at RBuilder\Source\ppPrvDlg.pas. That unit contains the source
code to the preview dialog. It creates an instance of the TppPreview class.
The TppPreview class is used by the report designer and the preview dialog
to…
Sorry, but currently ReportBuilder does not support BiDiMode or
unicode/multi-byte character sets.
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Nard Moseley
Digital Metaphors Corporation
Thanks for your interest in RB Server Edition.
1. The Server Edition supports Session level and Report level parameters.
For examples see RBServer\Demos\Clients\Custom Parameters,
Demos\Servers\Custom Parameters, and…
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Article: ReportBuilder and IntraWeb
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There are two basic approaches to using ReportBuilder to implement web
applications.
<…
1. D8 support
Thanks for your interest in ReportBuilder for .NET
We are continuing to work on Delphi VCL.NET compatibility. ReportBuilder is
large and complex product. Delphi 8 is proving to be a challenge - it is
As Ed suggested, try download a trial of RB 7.04 and perform the same test.
This error message indicates that no valid printer handle and printer canvas
can be found. It may be that you need to re-install or update the printer<…
Correct. The next major release will not support D5. Please consider
updating your Delphi version. Digital Metaphors does not have the resources
to build and test releases for more than three versions of Delphi. The VCL
internal…
Digital Metaphors will not be exhibiting at Borcon this year.
The Digital Metaphors creative team is hard at work on the next major
release of ReportBuilder which is targeted to be released at the end of this
year - follow…-------------------------------------------------------
Tech Tip: Printing a Unique Caption for each copy of
of a multi-copy report sent to the printer.
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You can use the following...
if Report.DataPipeline.Bof and Report.DataPipeline.Eof then
{no records in dataset}
else
{the dataset contains at least one record}
Note: In Delphi, the TDataSet has…
Not sure that I completely understand the question, but I was able to create
a simple example. I created a variable
var
gNoData: Boolean;
In the childreport OnStartFirstPass event I initialize it
gN…
1. Make sure that you have a valid printer driver installed.
2. There is patch available for RB 7.04 that fixes an AV that occurs when no
printer drivers are installed and a BarCode is placed on the report. I will
email yo…--------------------------------------------
Article: Cleaning up a Corrupt Installation
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If you have been advised by Digital Metaphors technical support that you may
have a corru…-------------------------------------------------
Tech Tip: How to add OR criteria in code
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The 'And' operator is implied. To add an Or, Begin, End to the criteria
you need t…
Perhaps try posting a question about "how to paint an image as the
background of an mdi form" to the Delphi newsgroups hosted by Borland.
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Nard Moseley
Digital Metaphors Corporation
in Preview on the background of a MDI-Form Comment by nardmoseley September 2004
I think TppViewer.ScreenDevice.PageImage provides access to a bitmap that
contains the page image. You might try using that.
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Nard Moseley
Digital Metaphors Corporation
www.digital-metaphors.com
Have not heard of this before. ReportBuilder 7.04 contains no mods that
would affect the print queue. ReportBuilder uses simple Windows API to
start/end the print job and start/end each page. Windows and the printer
driver handl…Steve,
Thanks for your interest in ReportBuilder.
1. Make sure that you have the datalinking relationships defined properly.
See the Data Access section of the Tech Tips newsgroups for an article on
linking quer…
Most users have reported that RB 7.04 fixes the issue.
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Nard Moseley
Digital Metaphors Corporation
www.digital-metaphors.com
Ok. Try saving the report under a new name and then continue to
incrementally simplify it until the summary band starts to print properly.
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Nard Moseley
Digital Metaphors Corporation
www.digital-metaphor…
Anything you do to the dataset needs to done prior to calling Report.Print.
The report engine initializes the datapipelines for all reports/childreports
at the very beginning. If you need to do manual master/detail then you can…
1. Make sure that you do not have any event-handler code that manipulates
the dataset in any manner while the report is executing.
2. If you are dynamically controlling object visibility, loading memo's etc,
make sure you …
Thanks for the feedback.
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Nard Moseley
Digital Metaphors Corporation
www.digital-metaphors.…
Yes, we plan to offer a pure .NET version of RB.
This will be completed in the longer term future, although p…
Following Borland's release of Delphi 9, Digital Metaphors will release
ReportBuilder 9.
ReportBuilder 9 will include many new enhancements and will support VCL
Win32 for Delphi 9, Delphi 7, and Delphi 6.
** Cus…
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Article: ReportBuilder and IntraWeb
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There are two basic approaches to using ReportBuilder and IntraWeb to
implement web applica…Graeme,
For future reference, please do not post to the newsgroups and to
support@digital-metaphors.com. Thank you
in Print to CSV file
Comment by nardmoseley
October 2004
Post to Borland Delphi Non-Tech newsgroup. I see Michael and others
answering similar questions on that newsgroup.
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Nard Moseley
Digital Metaphors Corporation
www.digital-metaphors.com