richtext and tabstopps

rbuser

Hello,

is it possible to get right aligned tabstopps in one of the
richeditcomponents of the ReportBuilder?
I would prefer the TppDBRichText component.

I've tried the \tx2000\tqr \tab syntax within rtf-format.
It works fine for known offsets in twips. But I want to align to the
right margin of the Report/TppDBRichText.

The output should be sort of that:
a text left aligned a long text right aligned
a text left aligned a text right aligned

Any ideas - every guess is welcome?

Thanks

Anton Leithner

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nicocizik

Hi Anton,

All ReportBuilder components are initially measured in Report Units (i.e.
inches, mm, screen pixels, etc.). If you know the offset that the tabs need
to be in twips, you should be able to easily convert (1 inch = 1440 twips)
this value to the report units you are using. You can get access to the
paragraph tab stops of the richtext using the TppRichText.Paragraph
property.

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Regards,

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

rbuser

Hi Nico,

if I understood correctly, there is no way to set right aligned tabs.
Because the TppRichText.Paragraph.Tab supports only left alignment.

Regards,

(i.e.
need
twips)

Anton Leithner

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nicocizik

Hi Anton,

With the ReportBuilder built in RichText support... yes. You might check
out using InfoPower or WPTools as they may offer this feature in their
richtext support which can be added to ReportBuilder.

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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.


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Regards,

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