Set printer manually or through tprintDialog

rbuser

Hi

Actually I want to set the printer name, copies, etc manually, or through
delphi's PrintDialog component.

Or is there any other way I can print three reports (one after another by
one button click) directly to printer by showing printer dialog just once
and using it for all three reports.

Thank You
Regards
Kumar

nardmoseley

The Delphi PrintDialog can be used only with Delphi's TPrinter.
ReportBuilder does not use Delphi's TPrinter because it is a poorly written
buggy implementation of a printer class.

ReportBuilder uses its own TppPrinter class.

1. To display a similar dialog, you can call Report.Printer.ShowSetupDialog.

2. To display the ReportBuilder print dialog, have a look at the
TppProducer.PrintToPrinter method located in ppProd.pas.

3. There are two options for combining multiple reports into one print job:

a. Create a main report, remove the header and footer, and add multiple
section style subreports to the main report. This solution enables preview
as well as print to printer.

www.digital-metaphors.com/tips/SubReference.zip

b. Take manual control over the print job. This solution enables only print
to printer, it does not support preview. Check out demo 123 (dm123.pas) in
the RBuilder\Demos\Reports\Demo.dpr project.






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Nard Moseley
Digital Metaphors Corporation
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