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Outline Drawing problem

rbuserrbuser
edited February 2007 in General
Hi

I am using Delphi 7 and RB Ent 7.04. I have a fairly complicated report (a
duplex printed back page etc) in which I am trying to put some outlines (a
rectangular shape) in group footers to contain some text. I am however
getting the following error

Exception EOutline error : TppPage.AddDrawCommand: cannot add more than one
draw outline command per page.

I have found reference to a similar problem to this in a newgroup reply from
Nico Cizik on Jan 8 2004

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  • rbuserrbuser
    edited February 2007
    My original post did not format correctly and hence this repost



    Hi

    I am using Delphi 7 and RB Ent 7.04. I have a fairly complicated report (a
    duplex printed back page etc) in which I am trying to put some outlines (a
    rectangular shape) in group footers to contain some text. I am however
    getting the following error

    Exception EOutline error : TppPage.AddDrawCommand: cannot add more than one
    draw outline command per page.

    I have found reference to a similar problem to this in a newgroup reply
    from
    Nico Cizik on Jan 8 2004



    I am wondering if the patch mentioned will resolve my problem or if there is
    another solution.

    Regards

    Tim Murfitt
  • nicociziknicocizik
    edited February 2007
    Hi Tim,

    The outline is designed to reside in a panel to the left of the report in
    the preview window. It is not possible to add this drawcommand to a band in
    a report. The reason you are getting the error is due to the fact that you
    are trying to add this drawcommand when it has already been added.

    Have you taken a look at the outline that is built into ReportBuilder? I
    would recommend using this rather than trying to generate your own as it
    would be much easier and it is designed to work with ReportBuilder.

    --
    Regards,

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

    Best Regards,

    Nico Cizik
    Digital Metaphors
    http://www.digital-metaphors.com
  • rbuserrbuser
    edited February 2007
    Nico

    Thanks for this. It had not occurred to that the outline referred to in the
    error message was the one in the side panel. I thought it was something to
    do with shapes. My default settings have outlines enabled so once I had
    turned them off for this report the problem was fixed.

    Regards

    Tim

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