TppWWRichEdit question

rbuser

Hello,

D7 + RB11.07

I'm trying to use the InfoPower RichEdit control, and after I followed the
instructions in your readme file to install the new component, I still do
not have access to it.
Is it supposed to be simply available in the component palette in the RB
report designer, along with all the default components like TppRichText and
others?

nicocizik

Hi Jarek,

ReportBuilder InfoPower RichEdit support enables the existing RichText
and DBRichText components in ReportBuilder to use the formatting
capabilities of the InfoPower TwwRichEdit control. There are no new
components added.

For more information, please see the documentation included in the
\RBuilder\InfoPower\... directory.

Moving forward, we hope you will consider upgrading to the latest
version of ReportBuilder. We have made hundreds of updates,
enhancements and fixes since RB 11.

http://www.digital-metaphors.com/rbWiki/General/What's_New

rbuser

Thanks.

Does that mean I still use the same class (TppRichText) as before? No
changes needed on the report whatsoever?
Is that true that the InfoPower control does not rely on Windows RichEdit
dlls?

The reason why I'm trying that is missing strike-thru formatting on print
preview - I reported it on this newsgroup some time ago in:
Message-ID: <1aqq4w06et2pq.1ugjcrjmnkw15$.dlg@40tude.net>
Date: Tue, 21 May 2013 13:50:51 +0200
but it seems to be unresolved.

Any advice will be greatly appraciated.

Regarding upgrade - it's not that simple, it does not depend on me.

rbuser

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In article <7ou5nbjll4lf.vk3yj4xbp0wk.dlg@40tude.net>, jd_999@gazeta.pl
says...

Hi Jarek, it is essential to include ppWWRichEd unit into the project's
uses (wherever you like).
Otherwise the compiler won't compile the necessary code allowing to use
the extended functionalities of the InfoPower rich text implementation.

I use this combination quite often and it works well.

Best Regards, Igor Gottwald

nicocizik

Hi Jarek,


Yes, and as Igor mentioned, you need to be sure to add ppWWRichEd to
your uses clause to register the new editor.


Yes, the InfoPower library uses its own internal RTF processing.

As a side note, we recently updated the RichText .dll used with
ReportBuilder RichTexts so the problem is likely resolved for the latest
version of ReportBuilder. In my testing with strikeout text inside a
Richtext using ReportBuilder 15.05 and Delphi XE6, the output is correct.

rbuser

On Wed, 24 Sep 2014 09:41:06 -0600, Nico Cizik (Digital Metaphors) wrote:


Thanks, Nico.
Can you confirm for 100% that you can see the problem with strikeout with
older RB versions, and it's resolved with 15.05?

Do you want my simple, sample application that demonstrates the issue?

rbuser

Igor, thank you.

What would be the "proof" for me, that what I see on the report in run-time
is rendered by Infopower engine? What do I need to try?

nicocizik

I have not tested this with RB 11. I can however confirm that if I
create a new report in RB 15, add a TppRichText with some strikeout
text, it displays correctly in the designer, previewer, and printer.

If you would like, you can send me an example that I can test here.
Send the example in .zip format to support@digital-metaphors.com.

rbuser

I sent now the same example example as in 2013 to given email address.

It contains exe, screenshot and a source code.

Thanks.

rbuser

On Tue, 23 Sep 2014 22:57:25 +0200, Igor Gottwald wrote:


Igor, I included ppWWRichEd into my unit's (not project) uses clause and I
can't see any difference. I.e., in the design-time, the list of available
methods/properties/events is the same.

How would I know that the component was succesfully "replaced"?

nicocizik

One easy way to tell is to copy an image into the RTF editor and see if
it displays in the report. This is not supported for the standard
TppRichText component but is for InfoPower.

rbuser

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In article <542aa8bc$1@mail.>, support@digital-metaphors.com says...


Exactly as Nico wrote, the easiest way is to test a picture. I wrote
about this few days ago, but can't see my post anymore. I have attached
some some PDF to my post and it was probably a mistake :-) My previous
post was:
"Hi Jarek,

I tried a very easy test. I had created a simple document in Word from
some template containing table, picture and some formated text. Then I
created a very simple application with a TppReport and TButton on a
form. The report contains a rich text field only and I copied the text
from Word to that field (using clipboard, together with the table and
the picture). The button runs the report's Print method only.

Then I run the application. The preview nor printed output didn't
contain any picture and some text was "in the table" (I have used
CutePDF to produce PDF).
I returned to the application and included ppWWRichEd unit to my
project. Then I repeated all actions. Both the preview and output
contained much more information including the picture.
However the output was not perfect, but looked exactly like the content
in the InfoPower editor."

At the design time you can edit rich text fields using the Info Power
editor, but to be sure everything works well you have to test the
output.

Regards, Igor Gottwald