Using RB6.03 - would upgrading to 7.04 fix these problems...
Hello,
A few of our users have reported the following problems, and i seem to
remember seeing a post or two stating that there were fixes/patches for
these, but I wanted to confirm wether these were rolled into RB7.04 or if i
would need to ask for a specific patch (or even if im imagining it):
1/ Canvas does not allow drawing
I think i saw a specific message a few days back to the affect that this was
sorted. We have seen it, but rarely (usually in a citrix/terminal services
session)
2/ Image printed as a black square
You can print the same report over and over but one in four of the print
outs will have a black square where an image (typically a company logo)
should be. We have been getting this at some sites, and it remains random.
Again, i think i saw a posting a while back saying that there was a patch
available on request? So, if there was, is that patch already rolled up
into 7.04?
Thanks in advance, the RB components themselves are rather cool (well, i
didnt want this to be a depressing sounding "ive got a problem" post ;-). Im
sure im not using them to their utmost, but what i can do with them is
rather satisfying.
Dave
A few of our users have reported the following problems, and i seem to
remember seeing a post or two stating that there were fixes/patches for
these, but I wanted to confirm wether these were rolled into RB7.04 or if i
would need to ask for a specific patch (or even if im imagining it):
1/ Canvas does not allow drawing
I think i saw a specific message a few days back to the affect that this was
sorted. We have seen it, but rarely (usually in a citrix/terminal services
session)
2/ Image printed as a black square
You can print the same report over and over but one in four of the print
outs will have a black square where an image (typically a company logo)
should be. We have been getting this at some sites, and it remains random.
Again, i think i saw a posting a while back saying that there was a patch
available on request? So, if there was, is that patch already rolled up
into 7.04?
Thanks in advance, the RB components themselves are rather cool (well, i
didnt want this to be a depressing sounding "ive got a problem" post ;-). Im
sure im not using them to their utmost, but what i can do with them is
rather satisfying.
Dave
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Comments
It looks as though upgrading to ReportBuilder 7.04 will solve both of these
issues. Note that if you upgrade to RB 7.04 now, you will receive a free
upgrade to ReportBuilder 9 when it is released.
1. There was an issue in RB 6.03 where the "Canvas does not allow drawing"
exception was raised when an application did not have security access to
print. The issue was resolved for ReportBuilder 7.
2. The patch for 7.03 resolving some of the black square image issues was
added to RB 7.04.
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Regards,
Nico Cizik
Digital Metaphors
http://www.digital-metaphors.com
Nico Cizik
Digital Metaphors
http://www.digital-metaphors.com
Just a follow up to my own post - i have one site now with this problem
happening all the time, wheras it used to be intermittent. they now have an
urgency on me to fix it, so i have ordered 7.04 anyway in the hope that it
does address this, otherwise, is there a link to a patch that you can also
send me?
dave
still stands
Unfortunately, we are not able to provide customers with old patches.
Regardless, the image patch would not work with RB 6 as it was a patch for
RB 7.03. When you receive your copy of RB 7.04, you might take a look at
the changes made to the ppUtils.pas file and see if you can make the proper
changes to the RB 6 source. I am unsure this will be possible as it has not
been tested.
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Regards,
Nico Cizik
Digital Metaphors
http://www.digital-metaphors.com
Nico Cizik
Digital Metaphors
http://www.digital-metaphors.com
setting the image transparancy to true (or false - I can't actually remember
which way around it was).
Jason Law