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  • Hi Kei,

    Sorry, there is no "undo" support in ReportBuilder.

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  • Hi Alex,

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    Article: ReportBuilder Image Support
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    ReportBuilder natively supports…
  • Hi Alex,

    ReportBuilder uses the same internal routines to read a bitmap than TImage
    does in Delphi. It may be possible to get the same image quality out of a
    JPEG image with compression turned off. Other than that a Window Met…
  • Hi Alex,

    If this is occuring on one machine and not another, this could be a printer
    driver issue. Are you able to load the image from the database to a normal
    Delphi application without the use of ReportBuilder? If so, check …
  • Hello,

    Sorry, but there is no built-in way to merge PDF files into a report. You
    could possibly find an application that convertes PDF files to RTF and then
    add the RTF files to a TppRichText component in a report as a work aro…
  • Hello,

    I am a bit unclear about what you are trying to accomplish. Do you want to
    merge a number of existing reports together and print them as a PDF file, or
    are you trying to merge actual PDF files into a report?

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  • Hi,

    Sorry, but viewing PDF files inside a report is not supported by
    ReportBuilder. You may be able to find a tool that converts PDF files to
    images or .rtf files to and then load them to a TppImage or TppRichText
    componen…
  • Hi Alex,

    You will want to use the Report.GetAutoSearchDescriptionLines method to
    retrieve the autosearch criteria descriptions. This will put the
    descriptions in a TStrings object in order to display them in a report memo.
  • Hi,

    If you are using the LoadParamsFromIniFile method to define a differen .ini
    file to use, be sure the LoadParamsOnConnect property is set to False. When
    LoadParamsOnConnect is true, it loads the connection configuration from…
  • Hi,

    Please see the ReadMe.doc file located in the \RBuilder\Languages\...
    directory for information on how to deploy your application with the proper
    language installed.

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  • Hi Vincent,

    If you are loading a template to the report object, you could be loosing
    your event handlers. Please see the article below on how to troubleshoot
    lost event handlers.

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  • Hi Michael,

    Cancelling a report is kind of a "bailing out" of the generation process.
    When you press the cancel button, the report engine completely stops and the
    report cannot be viewed. There is no way to partially view the r…
  • Hi Michael,

    Thank you for pointing this out. The page navigation buttons should remain
    disabled if the report generation is cancelled. It turns out the buttons
    were getting re-enabled when the Preview window was resized. I cr…
  • Hi Brad,

    Sorry, there is not a version of ReportBuilder that is supported by VB.

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  • Hi Nikolai,

    Grids were to be implemented and released, but it wasn't finished and
    subsequently the option is still in the designer. The grid is on the todo
    list for a future release.

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  • Hi Vincent,

    Check out the Group.OnGetBreakValue event to change the group break value.
    This should be the event you are looking for.

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  • Hi Agnieszka,

    This was a tricky problem. I was able to solve it by forcing the first
    value of the next page to reset itself to it's original value from the
    dataset in the DetailBand.BeforeGenerate event. This essentially ignor…
  • Hi Mark,

    There is no way to pre-generate a report in ReportBuilder. There are a
    couple ways to speed up your data access as I described in my previous post.
    You could also generate your report to Archive first and then view it …
  • Hi Mark,

    How are you linking your datasets? If you are linking the querys directly,
    they will each have to be opened every time the master record changes. You
    could try using DataPipeline linking or DADE to speed things up. …
  • Hi Gary,

    Please send an example of the issue to support@digital-metaphors.com and
    I'll take a look at what's going on.

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  • Hi Mark,

    Below is an example that draws a line just after the last line in a detail
    by creating a drawcommand and placing it in the proper position on the page.
    Hope this helps.

    in Line after the last detail band has printed on the page Comment by nicocizik September 2003
  • There are a couple grid components available as add-ons to ReportBuilder
    available in the friends | rcl section of our website named TwGridLines and
    TdtGrid.

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  • Hi Monte,

    Sorry, I forgot that there is a built-in function to perform this
    function...

    Report.MoveGroup(aCurrentPos, aNewPos: Integer);

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  • Hi Monte,

    Sorry, I just did a full refresh of the newsgroup and finally saw your
    original message. Thanks for bringing that to my attention. You're going
    to want to check out the Report.Groups[] property. Reordering the group…
  • Hi,

    The TppImage does not contain its own Canvas to draw to like the TImage
    does. This component streams the images which is later drawn to a canvas
    with the Screen device or DrawCommand. See the TppScreenDevice class in the
  • Hi,

    There is a third party addon named TwPaintbox available for download from
    our website that allows you to draw directly to the report cavas. You can
    find this component in the friends | rcl section of our website
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  • Hi Paul,

    Unfortunately we can no longer provide updates for any versions of
    ReportBuilder earlier than 7.0. You will need to upgrade to receive this
    fix.

    RB 7 includes.....

    - support for Delphi 5, Delphi 6…
  • Hi Paul,

    This issue was addressed in ReportBuilder 7. Please download the trial
    version of RB 7.03 and test your reports with that to see if you get
    different results. Be sure to back up any existing reports before you test
  • Hi Kei,

    Be sure that the label is inside the TppRegion and set it's ShiftWithParent
    property to True. This will cause the label to shift with the region when
    it stretches.

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