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Print Preview Hangs in Windows Server 2003 for Small Buisiness

edited May 2007 in General
Hi,

My program works well on Win XP as well as Win 2000, but when running any
report on Windows Server 2003 for Small Business the Print Preview hangs.

Is this a known issue, what is the work around.

Thanks

-Jack

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  • edited May 2007
    Hi Jack,

    I have not seen this behavior before. Which verison of ReportBuilder and
    Delphi are you currently using? Does this occur at design time or runtime
    and does it occur for every report?

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    Regards,

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

    Best Regards,

    Nico Cizik
    Digital Metaphors
    http://www.digital-metaphors.com
  • edited June 2007
    Report Builder 10.06. Only tested it in run-time, it happens on every
    report.

  • edited June 2007
    Hi Jack,

    Which version of Delphi are you using? If you set your library path to
    \RBuilder\Source and pause the application when it hangs where in the RB
    source is the problem occuring?

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    Regards,

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

    Best Regards,

    Nico Cizik
    Digital Metaphors
    http://www.digital-metaphors.com
  • edited June 2007
    Hi,

    Using Delphi 7. As I said, I only tried it at run-time as I have no 2003
    with Delphi installed, so pausing in Source is not an option.

    -Jack


  • edited June 2007
    Hi Jack,

    Have you tried creating a minimal example and running it on Windows Server
    2003? If not, try creating a minimal app with nothing but a form, button
    and empty report. In the OnClick of the button, call ppReport1.Print. Then
    try to execute this application on Windows 2003.

    When you say the preview "hangs" are you able to see the preview window? At
    what point do you loose control of the form?

    --
    Regards,

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

    Best Regards,

    Nico Cizik
    Digital Metaphors
    http://www.digital-metaphors.com
  • edited June 2007
    Hello,

    I have seen a similar problem with Windows 2003 Server (Delphi 7 and RB
    10.06). The problem occurred when I called "Print" off of the Report
    control. If I waited a long time the preview window would eventually appear
    (after about 5 minutes). The same program worked fine under XP.
    Unfortunately I am not in a position to be able to debug this as the problem
    has now gone away ! This is rather annoying as I'm unable to reproduce this
    but there is still the potential for it to fail on a customers site. If I
    can get it into this strange state again, I will try to debug it.

    Ian

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