Windows XP - Canvas does not allow drawing.

rbuser

What would cause the EInvalidOperation error message "Canvas does not allow
drawing." on Windows XP Professional. I am logged in as an Administrator
and running just a preview of a report.

I am dumbfounded.

rbuser

To Continue the Thought,

The reports run fine on WinNt and Win2000 from same executable.
Interestingly, I ran a simple States report, it ran fine, ran another
report, got the "Canvas does not allow drawing." message, ran the States
report again, got the "Canvas" message, ran an archived report several times
fine. Bizarre, but hey its WinXp, another fine Microsoft product.

Delphi5, ReportBuilder 6.03, WinXp Professional

digitalmetaphors

What is your installed default printer driver? I'm sure you know this, but
for other readers, RB uses the printer driver to determine the pagination of
a report, for the screen preview. We'll download the driver here and run
with it on our XP Pro machine. It's probably another fine example of how to
write a printer driver that supports the API calls that M$ apps use...and
not necessarily all of the API calls that a Windows application could make
to the printer:)


Cheers,

Jim Bennett
Digital Metaphors