Skipping record or deleting page

rbuser

Hello,

I'd like to know how I can Delete one or more page during the report
creation (using some event of the reports) or how to skip record depending
on calculation.

My problem is that I'll only know if a page should be in the report while
computing it. (Showing the page depends on calculation performed in
different events). So what I'd like to do is generate all the page of my
report and while generating it, store the page number that will be delete
before showing or printing the report. Is this possible ?

I'm using D5, Rbuilder 4.11

Thanks in advance
Greg

digitalmetaphors

You'll need to generate the report to memory, then only send the pages that
you want to send to the output device. Create a list of TppPage objects.
Loop throught the report.Publisher's page objects and copy the draw commands
with TppPage.Assign() for the pages that you want to print which exclude the
deleted pages. When you add the pages to the TList, you'll need to update
the page counts on the page objects. Then call the publisher's recieve page
method so that it will add the page to its list of pages. Then the pages can
be written to an archive file. Now you can read the archive file which has
only the pages that you want, and it can be printed to the screen or to the
printer. A similar demo which uses some of these techniques can be found
here:
http://www.digital-metaphors.com/tips/Booklet.zip
http://www.digital-metaphors.com/tips/SpreadSheetStyleReport.zip


Cheers,

Jim Bennett
Digital Metaphors

rbuser

Thanks for your quick answer )

Greg