ANN: ReportBuilder 9.02 is now available for Delphi 2005, Delphi 7, and Delphi 6!
Digital Metaphors Corporation announces the release of ReportBuilder 9.02!
ReportBuilder 9.02 includes VCL Win32 support for Delphi 2005, Delphi 7, and
Delphi 6.
Pricing: http://www.digital-metaphors.com/Subpages/Order/Overview.html
New Feature Matrix: http://www.digital-metaphors.com/PDF/Matrix.pdf
Upgrade now!!
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Enhancements
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Version 9.02 - 03/17/2005
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1. TeeChart
- Added TeeChart 7.04 support for Delphi 2005, Delphi 7
2. AutoSearch
- Added InList and Between operator support for searching on string values
that contain a comma
3. DADE
- Added support for PostgreSQL database type
Version 9.01 - 12/14/2004
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1. File Devices
- Added streaming support so that PDF and other formats can be
generated directly to an output Stream that is assigned to the
FileDevice.
2. Demos
- Added two PDF examples to the main reports demo
(..\RBuilder\Demos\Reports\Demo.dpr)
3. Online Help
- Added topics TppPDFDevice and TppPDFSettings
Version 9.0 - 11/19/2004
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Designer Enhancements
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. new Object Inspector
. new Undo/Redo support
. new Workspace grid and snap-to-grid support
. new Toolbar/ToolWindow architecture
Report Component Library (RCL) Enhancements
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. 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
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. new PDF export
Data Access Enhancements
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. new Guid Field Type support
. new Guid Field Type data linking support
Report Engine Enhancements
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. improved support for calculations performed in page footer
. improved support for detecting layouts which result in infinite page
generation.
DADE Enhancements*
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. new Support for Guid Field Type Linking
. new SQLBuilder object for runtime sql manipulation
RAP Enhancements**
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. new Report level events that enable parameter initialization and SQL
modification.
. new SQLBuilder class to dynamically modify sql
EndUser Guide Enhancements**
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. new Learning to RAP Guide
* These features in ReportBuilder Professional and Enterprise only.
** These features in ReportBuilder Enterprise only.
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Fixes for Version 9.02
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1. Designer
- When Component.ParentHeight is True, the Band cannot be dragged upward.
- Nudge or Ctrl+arrow keys did not work correctly when region plus contents
selected.
- Show/Hide floating tool windows when application is
activated/deactivated.
- LineThickness palette not being updated to reflect selected line.
- For DBText and DBCalc, the DisplayFormat dialog was not being initialized
with the current DisplayFormat value.
- DBCalc, the Calculations dialoge was not being initialized with the
current ResetGroup value.
- Fixed issue when the page orientation or column count was adjusted,
objects with a right anchor were still being deleted.
- Fix for stay on top behavior of floating tool windows.
- Fixed some memory leaks.
- Fixed undo support for RichText assignment.
2. PDFDevice
- Accented characters such as the german "?" character, were not exported
correctly.
- Dynamically loaded images in a two pass report were not exporting
correctly.
- An exception was thrown when exporting center or right aligned wrapped
text.
- Exporting overlapping shapes (forming a grid) with pen.style set to
psClear was leaving a visible line in the PDF file.
- An AV occured for the case in which no valid printer is installed.
- The CheckBox component was not exporting correctly.
- Fixed issue in which the demo versions of RB threw an exception.
- Added support for custom drawcommands to be exported as an image.
3. Engine
- Fix for case in which PageBreak.Visible is toggled while report is
generating.
- Fixed case in which pbFixed and TraverseAllData are true and the
subreport overflows. The subreport was printing at the incorrect top
position on overflowing pages.
- An exception was thrown if crosstab is calculating and user switches to
data tab.
- When Band.Visible is False, the engine incorrectly raised an exception to
prevent infinite pages.
- Some customers experiences issues related to RichText generation,
primarily with Win9x.
- Fixes issue where an exception was thrown when mail merging and a null
record was encountered.
- The PageStyle.PageList was not processed correctly.
- Fixed some Av's that occured when no printer is installed.
4. Viewer
- Updated the text search feature in RB so that it will search through
rotated text correctly.
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5. EndUser Designer
- Using TppDesigner as an MDI form can result in an error "a component
named ReportOutline already exists".
- Fixed AV that occurs with Designer is compiled with the Delphi compiler
option for Stack Frames.
- Fix for MDI Designer case in which DataTree is not docked.
6. Dade
- Enhanced AutoSearch to support case in which a field appears twice in the
select list and is used to create two criteria.
- Dade Date criteria can encounter an issue when reports run from various
regional settings.
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7. RAP
- Updated RAP RTTI for the TStringList class to support
TStringList.Duplicates, TStringList.CaseSensitive props.
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Fixes for Version 9.01
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1. Designer
- Some users experienced stack faults and slow performance
- Undo support when a Region and its contents are selected
2. PDFDevice
- Fixed issues related to regional settings that use a ','
as the decimal separator
- Fixed issue related to handling wmf images
3. Engine
- Fixed case for reports have an invisible detail band. The new
logic that checks for infinite page generation conditions, erroneously
raised an exception.
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4. EndUser Designer
- Using the TppDesigner.ShowComponents feature resulted in an AV
5. ReportExplorer
- When empty and the Save dialog can encounter a list index out of bounds
error when saving the first item.
- when an empty folder is selected the enable item options logic did not
fire.
This could result in items not being enabled and disabled properly.
6. TdaSQL
- Searching on the string 'Select ' was mistaken for a sub-select
statement.
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5. RAP
- OnPageRequest RTTI was not defined
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Digital Metaphors
http://www.digital-metaphors.com
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