language support: French and Spanish

rbuser

We are using Delphi 7, dbisam databases and reportbuilder reports to create
our software. We would like to add language support for French and Spanish.
Any recommendations on components to look at/try? Are there any components
that not only translate, but also resize fonts, etc. in order to get the
text to fit on the screen? Or is that something we need to do manually? We
have quite a few reporting areas, so manually resizing would take some time.

Any components that do not work well with report builder? Take care.

Thank you for your time,
Amber

nicocizik

Hi Amber,

Although we are not experienced with the translation applications currently
out there (perhaps another customer will chime in with their advise) it
should be rather easy to incorporate one into your existing app using a
report object loop.

Before you print your report, or after you load it if you are using
templates, you would simple loop through each report component sending the
text property of each text component through your translation app. See the
article below on looping through all components in a report.

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Tech Tip: Loop Thru All Objects in a Report
---------------------------------------------

A ReportBuilder report is composed of a set
of components. The basic structure is

Reports.Bands[].Objects[]

The bands and objects within the report can
be accessed directly by object name or
via the Bands and Objects array properties.

Below is an example of using the Bands and
Objects array properties to change the font for
all objects on a report.


uses
ppClass;


procedure AssignFontToReport(aFont: TFont; aReport: TppCustomReport);
var
liBand: Integer;
liObject: Integer;
lObject: TppComponent;

begin

for liBand := 0 to aReport.BandCount-1 do

for liObject := 0 to aReport.Bands[liBand].ObjectCount-1 do
begin
lObject := aReport.Bands[liBand].Objects[liObject];

if lObject.HasFont then
lObject.Font := aFont;

end;

end;


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Regards,

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

rbuser

That sounds good. Thank you for the reply.

Amber