report template as text

rbuser

I like to get the reporttemplate as text so I can save it as text via
our own class(assigning to it's text property).

The correct place to do this is the Customdocsave event of the designer,
right?

After that I also need a way to convert the text back to a template
what would be the best approach?

We are using report builder 10.07 with Delphi 2005

Luc Neville
DMS software products



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nicocizik

Hi Luc,

Templates can be saved and loaded as ASCII text with ReportBuilder, there is
no need to convert them back and forth. Simply set the
Report.Template.Format property to ftASCII and the template will be saved to
text. This template can later be loaded by ReportBuilder as is.

--
Regards,

Nico Cizik
Digital Metaphors
http://www.digital-metaphors.com

rbuser

Nico
I know it's possible to save a template as a file but I don't want to
save it into a file I just want the template represented as text
assigned to a string property of our own class.

Saving it to a file, then opening it up and assign the text to the
property of our own designed class seems to me like unnescessary
read/write actions. I'd like to assign it directly without
reading/writing to file but I don't know if reportbuilder has this
option.

Luc Neville
DMS Software Products



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nicocizik

Hi Luc,

Sorry, I was not clear that it is not necessary to save a template to file.
A template can be saved to a memory stream as well, then loaded into an
object such as a TStringList. Something like the following...

var
lMemoryStream: TMemoryStream;
lStringList: TStringList;
begin

lMemoryStream := TMemoryStream.Create;
lStringList := TStringList.Create;

try

ppReport1.Template.Format := ftASCII;
ppReport1.Template.SaveToStream(lMemoryStream);

lMemoryStream.Position := 0;

lStringList.LoadFromStream(lMemoryStream);

ShowMessage(lStringList.Text);

finally
lStringList.Free;
lMemoryStream.Free;
end;

--
Regards,

Nico Cizik
Digital Metaphors
http://www.digital-metaphors.com

rbuser

thank you very much Nico

Maybe because I never use streams I didn't figure this out myself.



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