table in DBRichText

rbuser

Hi all,

I am having some trouble with displaying a table in a dbRichText component
for a report. I am using D5, and the Report Builder version for it (sorry,
I don't have the RB version number as I'm writing this). The problem is
this:

I am getting rtf text from a database. That text may contain a table. the
cells for the table are all uniform, and do not adjust for the length of the
text in the field (the height does not change per row). So, if the length
of the text that is supposed to go into the cell is too long, it will
overflow onto the next line, causing a break in the table. All of the data
is there, it is just not formatted properly. for example:

[table cell 1] [table cell 2] [table cell 3] continued
text from table cell 3
[table cell 4] [table cell 5] [table cell 6]

Any ideas???

Thanks,
Tony

nicocizik

Hi Anthony,

The RichText components in ReportBuilder are essentially wrappers around the
TRichEdit object in Delphi. Are you able to create a more suitable output
using Delphi?

Take a look at the following article on the RichText architecture in
ReportBuilder for more information and options. One of the following
third-party add-ons may be of some help.

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Article: ReportBuilder's RichText architecture
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The RichText in ReportBuilder is a wrapper around Delphi's TRichEdit which
in turn relies on Windows. There are two versions of Windows richedit -
RichEd32.dll is the older one and RichEd20.dll is a newer one (RichEd32 is
being phased out). Delphi by default relies on RichEd32 - the older version.
To use some of the more advanced features of Windows RichEdit, see the topic
on InfoPower RichEdit Support below.

In general Windows RichEdit supports the type of formatting that you can do
using WordPad.



InfoPower RichEdit Support
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InfoPower from Woll2Woll Software is a popular database add-on product for
Delphi. InfoPower's TwwRichEdit components support the Windows RichEdit2
format. This format allows the rich text data to contain embedded bitmaps
and OLE objects. For more information please see http:\\www.Woll2Woll.com.

ReportBuilder includes a component that enables the TppRichText and
TppDBRichText controls in ReportBuilder to use the formatting capabilities
of InfoPower's TwwRichEdit when rendering RTF data. The ppWWRichEd.pas unit
located in the ..\RBuilder\InfoPower directory defines a TwwDBRichEdit
descendant and then registers the class with ReportBuilder. This enables the
TppRichText and TppDBRichText controls in ReportBuilder to use the
formatting capabilities of TwwDBRichEidt when rendering data.


WPTools Support
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WPTools is a collection of components used to edit and print formatted text.
With its own RTF engine, WPTools offers numerous features not supported by
the standard Windows RichEd20.dll. This control lets you use tables,
paragraph frames, headers and footers etc. Using the optional ReportBuilder
support units for WPTools 2.x, you can print the enhanced WPTools features
(justified text, tables, graphics...) within your ReportBuilder reports. For
more information please see http:\\www.wptools.de.

TRichView
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TRichView is a suite of native Delphi components for displaying, editing,
and printing hypertext documents. Documents can contain tables, pictures,
and images. TRichView is available from www.trichview.com. There is a
wrapper for available for using TRichView inside ReportBuilder, see
http://www.digital-metaphors.com/Subpages/Downloads/CompanionRCL.html or
http://www.trichview.com/resources/


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Regards,

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