RichEdit, Right Aligned Tabstops

rbuser

D7, RB7.04

Hi

I know, that the Delphi-Component TDBRichEdit is not designed for
Right-Aligned-Tabstops (because of the old RichEd32.dll).

If i add $0200 0000 to the Tabstop-Values, the PlainText shows the Format
for Right-Aligned-Tabstops correctly (\tqr\txTwips for Right-Tabs and
\txTwips for Left-Tabs) but RB ignores this Format.

Can RB handle Right-Aligned-Tabstops with the Delphi-Component?

J?rgen

nicocizik

Hi Jurgen,

See the following article on the ReportBuilder richtext architecture and how
to enhance it.


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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

rbuser

Hi Nico

Does that mean that i must use InfoPower or WPTools for printing RichText
with right-aligned-tabs in RB?

I'am testing the Jedi-Component TJvRichEdit.

J?rgen

nicocizik

Hi Jurgen,

Yes, you will need to enhance the ReportBuilder RichText capabilities in
order to print a RichText with right-alligned tabes. This can be done with
the use of InfoPower or WPTools (or perhaps another tool as you mentioned
below).

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Regards,

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