printing a form

rbuser

hi,
is it possible to use reportbuilder to print a TForm (the contents that is)
Form.print work but only with certain printer drivers
i was wondering if Reportbuilder was capable to capture the image
and print it
(like you press printscreen and then put the contents in an image?)

thx
marc

digitalmetaphors

RB has no native support to do this, exactly. I wonder if there is an
WinAPI call (to provide a copy of the active window like
Ctrl-Alt-PrintScreen). If so, then you should be able to create an offscreen
bitmap of the form at runtime. Then load this into an image compoennt of a
report and print that?


Cheers,

Jim Bennett
Digital Metaphors

rbuser

Jim,
that was my path also
but like you? i do not know of such a call....

marc

rbuser

Hi,

In article <8EAE82296ACCD311A039005004E0CAC0068D4D@DMSERVER>,
Marc.Antheunis@XLentSolutions.Com says...

Try Billenium Effects at http://www.billeniumsoft.com, it includes a
function called RenderControl that creates a bitmap and renders the
specified control into it. This function is much more accurate than
other solutions (it renders correctly most controls). In any case, there
is no perfect solution to this problem because Windows design doesn't
allow it.

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Regards,
Francisco Sanchez
fmsanchez@telecable.es