Tool tips in report preview

rbuser

Ib the report preview to screen, there are no tool tips for the print and
zoom buttons on the toolbar.

How can I change this?

Regards,

Kieron

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Kieron G Smith
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digitalmetaphors

Looks like the button's ShowHint property is always false in the preview
class. This has been fixed for the next maintenance release. In the
meantime, you can create and register your own descendent of
TppCustomPreview, just like our TppPreview class in ppPreview.pas. The
TppPreview class knows about the buttons, so internal to this class you'll
need to set the ShowHint property to True.


Cheers,

Jim Bennett
Digital Metaphors

digitalmetaphors

It's actually there is an easier way to get it to work. Just create a
TppPreview descendent and override the BeforePreview and set
ToolBar.ShowHint to true.

type

TppMyPreview = class(TppPreview)
public
procedure BeforePreview; override;

end;

implementation


procedure TppMyPreview.BeforePreview;
begin

inherited BeforePreview;

Toolbar.ShowHint := True;

end;


initialization
TppPreviewPlugIn.Register(TppMyPreview);

finalization
TppPreviewPlugIn.UnRegister(TppMyPreview);


Cheers,

Jim Bennett
Digital Metaphors

rbuser

Use 1stClass StatusBar. Displays the hints even if ShowHint is false!

rbuser

Is there a way to modify a preview button property using this technique?

The only way I've been able to do it is to make the changed to a saved copy
of ppPreview.pas.

Mitch Mullins

digitalmetaphors

Yes, there is. This demo shows how to change the visibility of the print
button.

http://www.digital-metaphors.com/tips/PreviewPlugin.zip


Cheers,

Jim Bennett
Digital Metaphors