Some images get lost, when upgrading a Report from v12.04 to v19.03

d_as

Hi,
currently i'm working on two projects.
- Project one is written in Delphi 2007 using an old RB version: 12.04.
- Project two is written in Delphi XE7 using RB version: 19.03.

I create reports with RB 12.04 and the Reports contain 5 ppImages. Each holds a picture of different types: png, jpg, bmp, gif and tif. Then i want to use that report in my XE7 project. But after loading the report into the ppReport component, 3 of the 5 images get lost. The jpg, tif and png images are deleted. The other two (bmp and gif remain untouched).

Is there anything i can do to prevent pictures getting deleted when upgrading reports to a higher version?

nicocizik

Hi Alex,

This is not a known issue with RB 19. Are the images saved with the report template or being loaded from a different location? If possible, please create a simple example that demonstrates this behavior and send it to support@digital-metaphors.com in .zip format and we'll take a look at it.

d_as

Hey Nico,

thank you, for your quick response. The images are saved with the report template. I've just sent you an example project.

nardmoseley

Hi Alex,

Thanks for providing the example.

The D2007, RB 12.04 example contains references to 3rd party graphic/image components:

uses
EnTifGr, PngImage1, EnJpgGr;

The XE7, RB 19.03 example does not contain these units. I can load the .rtm and then load the missing images from the image files you included. This uses the Delphi built-in graphic classes. Newer Delphi versions include graphic classes not present in older versions.

The Delphi TPicture.Graphic architecture is a plug-in architecture that accepts TGraphic descendants. RB leverages this architecture.