How to set the label caption on the report

rbuser

I put labels on the report header which is to be set at run time or before
print.
In Delphi, I tried

with ppReport1 do
begin
lblCompanyName.Caption := 'XYZ Company';
Print;
end;

This 'XYZ Company' is read from ini file, not from database.
It does not set the caption of the label when the report is shown in
preview. I just showed as lblCompanyName.

rbuser

> with ppReport1 do

it should work, you must be doing something wrong.

Note that lblCompanyName is not a property of ppReport1 so you don't have to
apply the 'with' statement to it.

so you can do it in 2 lines:

lblCompanyName.Caption := ...
ppReport1.Print

so the question is why isn't it working--some debugging. Check the
following:

1) the class name of lblCompanyName
2) the value of lblCompany.Caption in the reports' BeforePrint event.
3) check the band of the label is correct.


Ed Dressel
Team DM

rbuser

What do you meant by this ?

rbuser

So how do I refer to this lblCompany from Delphi calling program ?

to

rbuser

it's owned by the datamodule/form, not the report.

--
Ed Dressel
Team DM

rbuser

check the lblCompanyName.Band.ClassName property, that it is the detail
band.

--
Ed Dressel
Team DM