Printing problem

rbuser

When I print my report, which use to work fine under Delphi 5 and Report
Builder 5.52, I get multiple copies of the report. The report, which is a
horizontal bar chart, is only one page long. However, I am getting 22+
pages of the same report on our printer (HP Laserjet 4).

I am using Report Builder 7.01 and TeeChart 5.03 with Delphi 7.

Dave

rbuser

I'm not quite sure what is causing this problem, but I was able to stop the
behavior by setting the PageLimit to 1. This will work, but I think there
is a bug in Report Builder 7.01 or TChart 5.03.

Dave

nicocizik

Dave,

It sounds like the chart may be too big to fit on only one page. Check the
margins of your report and adjust the size of the chart so it fits within
those boundaries. Most likely the there is a static height control set
somewhere that is never able to fit on the page in your layout. There is an
article in the Digital Metaphors tech-tips/general newsgroup on resloving an
endless pages issue. Just do a search on 'Endless Pages' and you should find
it.

Nico Cizik
Digital Metaphors

rbuser

Nico,

I read through the article on "Endless Pages" and found that my
TppReport.AutoStop property was set to FALSE, which according to the article
and the help file means that my data pipeline is not assigned. I set it to
TRUE and my pagelimit back to 0 and my problem went away.

Here is my configuration:
I have a clientdataset, which I create with several fields and then right
clicked and "create" it (at this point the clientdataset is active --
basically, I use it as an in memory table to store data that I polish before
presenting to the user). I then hook the datasource to the clientdataset
and then the TppDBPipeline to the datasource.

When I hook the TppReport to the TppDBPipeline is sets my autostop property
to FALSE. I assume this is because the clientdataset doesn't have any data
inside of it at this point (design time).

You might want to update your help to state that empty datasets also cause
the autostop property to be set to FALSE at design time.

Dave