Reload report from dfm

rbuser

Hi,

in my application every form owns a report instance. The report is stored
inside the dfm as usual.
To allow end user customizations we added support for load/save reports
from/to database (Report.Template.LoadFromDatabase / SaveToDatabase).

Of course loading a report from database delete the "original" one loaded
from dfm.

Is there a way to reload the orginal report from the dfm ?

(Delphi 2006 + Report Builder 11)

Kind regards,
Corrado

nardmoseley

You cannot reload from the .dfm, but you can easily save/reload the original
report. Add some code, to the Form.OnCreate event or prior to calling
Designer.ShowModal, to save the report definition to a memory stream.

FOriginalReportStream: TMemoryStream;

FOriginalReportStream:= TMemoryStream.Create;

// save origin report definition
myReport.Template.SaveToStream(FOriginalReportStream);


// load original report definition
FOriginalReportStream.Stream.Position := 0;

myReport.Template.LoadFromStream(FOriginalReportStream);




--
Nard Moseley
Digital Metaphors
www.digital-metaphors.com

rbuser

A few other ideas besides Nard:

1) Create a new instance of the form.
2) There are some VCL reset functions avaiable for restoring the original
state of a componnet (form) I've seen. I have not seen them for a few years
now, but I know they were around--maybe google or ask in the Delhpi
newsgroups.

Ed Dressel
Team DM