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edited October 2005 in General
Hi,

Would you have an enhancement list of RB going all the way from Version 6 to
Version 9? Also it appears that RB is not supported anymore for Delphi 5 is
that right?

Thanks

Alex

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  • edited October 2005
    Hi Alex,

    Below is a list of the major enhancements for ReportBuilder 9. If you take
    a look at the Announcements newsgroup you can find lists of all the
    enhancements that have been made since RB 5.

    Digital Metaphors only has the resources to support the latest 3 versions of
    Delphi. With each version the VCL has internal modifications that make it
    difficult to port the code backwards and get it working. That is why there
    is no RB Server Edition for D5. The number of customers using D5 is now
    quite small, with many of those looking to update to D2005.


    Enhancements for ReportBuilder 9.0

    Designer Enhancements
    ---------------------
    . New Object Inspector
    . New Undo/Redo support
    . New Workspace grid and snap-to-grid support
    . New Toolbar/ToolWindow architecture

    Report Component Library (RCL) Enhancements
    -------------------------------------------
    . New Rotated Text support, added Angle property for text controls
    . New Border property for all controls
    . New Anchor property enables control to reposition itself when the layout
    changes.
    . New PageBreak component for advanced control over pagination
    . Enhanced RichText MailMerge to support display formats & multiple
    datapipelines
    . Enhanced DBImage to support AutoSize
    . Enhanced RCL architecture supports registering popup menu and design
    controls
    . New Report level events that enable parameter initialization and SQL
    modification.

    Report Output Enhancements
    --------------------------
    . New PDF export

    Data Access Enhancements
    ------------------------
    . New Guid Field Type support
    . New Guid Field Type data linking support

    Report Engine Enhancements
    ----------------------------
    . Improved support for calculations performed in page footer
    . Improved support for detecting layouts which result in infinite page
    generation.

    DADE Enhancements*
    ------------------
    . New Support for Guid Field Type Linking
    . New SQLBuilder object for runtime sql manipulation

    RAP Enhancements**
    ------------------
    . New Report level events that enable parameter initialization and SQL
    modification.
    . New SQLBuilder class to dynamically modify sql

    EndUser Guide Enhancements**
    ----------------------------
    . New Learning to RAP Guide


    * These features in ReportBuilder Professional and Enterprise only.
    ** These features in ReportBuilder Enterprise only.


    --
    Regards,

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

    Best Regards,

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