User created reports and font charset

rbuser

I'm trying to determine if the current end user report designer allows the
user to specify the FontCharSet with the font. The project I'm working on is
currently using version 7 of RB. The only font options are the basics.

It is able to work on design-time reports where the font property is
exposed.

The issue is that we need to support the Thai language (for certain columns
only) and have all the Delphi needs identified but cannot find a solution
for user defined RB reports.

Any help is appreciated,
-Mark E.

nardmoseley

Check out the TppFontList class defined in ppUtils.pas. This class is used
by RB to get a list of fonts installed on the machine. TppFontList builds a
list of available fonts by calling the Windows API which return a list of
the fonts installed on the machine. TppFontList contains a list of
TppFontInfo objects that contain properties for FontName and CharSet. These
objects are used to assign the TFont properties to RB's text components.

rbuser

Nard,

Thanks for the response. I'm not sure that it really addresses my issue.
Please correct me if I'm wrong.

I know how to make it work programmatically when in Delphi. My issue is the
that the end-user report designer. When the user creates their own custom
report that we never see, is it possible to make a specific DBText control
(not all controls) support the THAI_CHARSET? I haven't found a way to do
that. If it *is* possible, which version of RB is needed?

Thank you,
-Mark E.

nardmoseley

Perhaps if you explaing main about what/how you do this in Delphi I can
understand what you are trying to do.


How do you know which DBText components need to support Thai? You mean you
want the Thai Font to appear in the list of font names on the format toolbar
drop down list? Or you want to programmatically assign a font?

-
Nard Moseley
Digital Metaphors
www.digital-metaphors.com