Preview on the background of a MDI-Form

rbuser

Hi there,

is it possible to paint the preview of a report to the background of an
mdi-form (not mdi-child).

if i paste a tppviewer on the mdi-form windows sets this (like every other
component) on the foreground... so no more mdi-childs are visible.

i tried to implement this function by several ways, but nothing works... i
think my know-how on painting-stuff is to small.

can someone help me?

i think it is a great feature, to see a preview on the background.

cheers

nardmoseley

I think TppViewer.ScreenDevice.PageImage provides access to a bitmap that
contains the page image. You might try using that.


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Nard Moseley
Digital Metaphors Corporation
www.digital-metaphors.com

rbuser

Thanks, this property contains the image, but i don't know how to paint this
image on the background of an mdi-form....

on serveral pages on the web it's described how to paint such images on bkg,
but it's not what i want.
i don't want my image tiled! i want it painted only once on the center of my
mdi-form, an if the picture is too big to display the whole graphic on my
mdi-form, it has to resize the client area so i can scroll up/down...

i hope i'll find some not buggy trick to do so...

nardmoseley

Perhaps try posting a question about "how to paint an image as the
background of an mdi form" to the Delphi newsgroups hosted by Borland.


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Nard Moseley
Digital Metaphors Corporation
http://www.digital-metaphors.com

rbuser

There is freeware component from Robert Roßmair,
http://home.t-online.de/home/Robert.Rossmair/
Robert.Rossmair@t-online.de
which we use for bacground images in MDI forms as wel! It works fine!!!

Damir