long files in ppRichText

rbuser

hello,
I need some help.

I've created a simple report: One ppRichText shown in three columns, using
the LoafFromFile method.
The files are created from a database in rtf format and could grew up to 2-5
MB. If the file is small no problems. But if the files get bigger only a
part of the text is loading and shown as plain text (because richtext end }
is missing). What can I do to show and print large files in my report ????

Thank you for help in advance.
nobby

digitalmetaphors

How is the RichText being loaded? If I am assuming correctly you are loading
the richtext from the database, writing it to a file, and then loading it
from the file into ppRichText? Is all the RichText making it from the
database into the file? If so, then does LoadFromFile load all the text? In
essence, what I am asking is, when does the partial RichText become lost?

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Cheers,

Alexander Kramnik
Digital Metaphors

rbuser

Yuo are right: the database writes the file to the harddisk. The file is
complete correct. You can open it i.e. with word and it looks well. When you
try to load it to ppRichText only a part of the file appears as plain text.
In other words: It seems that the file has too much lines, that means
ppRichText.RichText is limited?????What can I do to work with greater
files??
Thanks a lot for answering.
nobby



"Alexander Kramnik (Digital Metaphors)" schrieb

rbuser

Hi Norbert,

are you using Win95?

regards,
Chris Ueberall;

rbuser

Hi Chris,

we are using win 2000, our customer winXP
is still the same. Do you have any idea???

regards,
nobby

rbuser

Hi nobby,


not in that case, sorry.

regards,
Chris Ueberall;

digitalmetaphors

Try placing a regular richedit component. The try loading the richtext into
that component the same way you are trying to load it into RBuilder.
RBuilder's richedit component is built around delphi's RichEdit component.
You can also try using the RichText engine's available from InfoPower and
WPTools.

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Cheers,

Alexander Kramnik
Digital Metaphors

rbuser

Hi Alexander,
I did what you ask me: Place a regular richedit and do the following test:
With 'RichEdit1.Lines.LoadFromFile' loading the large rtf-file. After
loading you can see for a part of second formatted rich text and then it
switches to plain text. But the regular rich edit has a property: MaxLength.
Set this one to 1000000 and the richedit works fine.
I did the test with ppRichText too. If there are too many lines the richedit
switches from formatted to
plain text. But your comp 'lost' the property MaxLenght. Please help me: Can
you modify the source that this property appears in the object inspector??
And prehaps mail the modification to me?? (ppRiched.pas?)
Many, many thanks in advance.


3/16/99 - Workaround for bug when assigning streaming a richedit which
// has exceeded its maxLength. Previously in this case, the
richedit
// control would lose the richedit formatting.

"Alexander Kramnik (Digital Metaphors)" schrieb

digitalmetaphors

Unfortunately we can't rebuild the design time packages in order to make the
property appear in the object inspector. However you can modify the source
by adding 'published MaxLength' to TppRichEdit and either setting it to a
higher value in the constructor of TppRichText or adding a property to
TppRichText that will do the same.

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Cheers,

Alexander Kramnik
Digital Metaphors

rbuser

Hi there

I also have this problem with RichText and long reports.

I have tried adding MaxLength to the published section of TppRichText &
TppCustomRichText, but MaxLength does not exist in the base class
TppStretchable.

How do I solve this?

Regards
Juliana Albertyn

digitalmetaphors

The MaxLength property is on the RichEdit object (the FRichEdit private
member of TppRichEdit).

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Cheers,

Alexander Kramnik
Digital Metaphors

rbuser

"Alexander Kramnik (Digital Metaphors)" wrote

rbuser

Hi Bruce

Please explain!

I got my long report to print correctly, but it takes very long. I use the
same code to either print to a text file (bypassing report builder) or print
a reportbuilder report (ie in one procedure I decide whether to write to a
text file, or add a line to the richtext component). When writing to a text
file the report takes 1 min, while a reportbuilder report takes more than 30
mins. I've timed the iterations, and every nth iteration writing to the
richtext takes just so much longer.

Could this be memory related? The report is 58 pages long.

Thanks to all for the help so far!
Juliana

rbuser