Fonts problem.

rbuser

Using D 7 and RB 7.03. When we look at the RTM at design time the font's of
some variable fields are Bold style. They are on TppRegions in the
HeaderBand and the SummaryBand. But when we run the report these fields lose
their Bold style and print with regular font. Is there a "ParentFont"
property for the TppVariable and TppLabel fields that is overriding the
font. At runtime when we put a break point in the
OnHeaderBandBeforePrint/Generate and OnSummaryBandBeforePrint/Generate we
can see that the Font.Style property has fsBold in it. It just does not
print as Bold in the final report.

Can you suggest where to look ? Last time we saw this working correctly was
in a project that we did using Rb 7. So has anything changed from 7 to 7.03
regarding this?

Is there a way to track changes to the font while the report is actually
running? Something maybe wrong in our code itself but we are just not able
to pin point.

Thanks in advance.
Vikram

nicocizik

Vikram,

There have been no changes to the font logic from RB 7 to RB 7.03. My
suggestion is to comment out all your event handler code and see if that
fixes the issue. If so, periodically begin adding your code back to isolate
the problem area. You might also try creating a very simple report with a
variable inside a region on a report and nothing else and see if you can
generate the same results.

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rbuser

Ok thanks.
But just to confirm, report builder components do not have "ParentFont"
behavior, correct?

Vikram

nicocizik

Hi Vikram,

This is correct. All the text components in ReportBuilder descend from
TppPrintable which contains a Font property that is set by the user. This
also defines the font of the Text DrawCommands.

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