background picture in preview

rbuser

Hi,
Is it possible add a background picture to my pages with still visible just
in a preview report?
Thank you.

digitalmetaphors

First, place the image in the PageStyle band. You can determine if you are
printing to the screen or printer by checking if the Report.PrinterDevice is
nil or non-nil. Use the Report.BeforePrint event to make this check and then
set the visibility of the image accordingly.

Not all printers support transparency. You should be fine if you set all of
the components to Transparent = True, That should just work no matter if
your printer supports transparency or not. In the case where your printer
driver tries to print the other controls on the report in a manner that is
not aesthetically pleasing, then you need to perform a report object loop
and set the Transparent properties of the controls to True when printing to
the screen and false when printing to the printer. An example of a report
object loop can be found in an article on our tech-tips NG in the Code Based
thread.


Cheers,

Jim Bennett
Digital Metaphors

rbuser

How can I stretch a image to all page? I try, I didn't.

rbuser

Or how can I tile it?

digitalmetaphors

Use the PageStyle band. It prints behind all other bands and prints on every
page. Resize the PageStyle to be the height of the available space on the
page (usually you'll have quarter inch margins). Then drop a TppImage in the
PageStyle band and assign the picture to it.


Cheers,

Jim Bennett
Digital Metaphors

digitalmetaphors

There is an example of building a dynamic image report page in our main
report demo project. It is the Pyramid of Fish report. It builds a pyramid
of fish images. Tiling would probably be something similiar. You'll have to
create N number of images in the PageStyle band and load the image into each
one of them.

Cheers,

Jim Bennett
Digital Metaphors