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ReportBuilder does NOT require the BDE. There is a list of BDE alternatives
we support on our website: www.digital-metaphors.com
Also, check out the End User Databases directory in the RBuilder
installation. It has examples of u… -
>*. Is there any way to force
I don't know, you should ask Pragnaan if this can be done with their
devices.
Cheers,
Jim Bennett
Digital Metaphors
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The current crosstab renderer (ppCTRend.pas) is the best example we have of
creating a custom crosstab renderer. It uses the matrix that the crosstab
engine generates, and creates draw commands on the page to render the matrix
data o… -
Use the CrossTab.AfterCalc if you want to make changes to the matrix before
the crosstab is rendered.
The crosstab is working as designed. Instead of using a crosstab, have you
explored using columns in a report to print the dat… -
First thing to try is to set Report.CachePages to true. The correct behavior
otherwise is what you are getting, though not what you need in this report.
The calculations will refire if CachePages is False. Some reports in the
field re… -
The easiest way would be to use one TppVariable in the summary band and in
its OnCalc event handler, check the data pipeline's record value ( myValue
:= Report.DataPipeline['aFieldName']; ). If it is an expense or income, then
perform… -
You'll have to use Infopower or WPTools RTF support in RB to get justified
text to render in an RB report. RB relies on TRichEdit as the default, which
does not support justified text.
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Knowing that the page will be "trimmed" when you change the orientation,
then when are you setting the orientation? If you set it in the print
dialog, it should print using that orientation, "trimming" the pages.
Have you tried … -
You must change the layout of the report components to support a different
orientation. The report components will not change based on the printer
setup options. The layout must be configured to print correctly. One
alternative is to… -
RB has its own translation application:
http://www.digital-metaphors.com/lang/rbLang.exe
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Use the OnGetText event. This is the only time we ever say to use any event
other than OnCalc with a variable:) The reason is that referencing the Text
property triggers the OnGetText event. This is fired when the group asks for
the g… -
What does the dataview preview grid display for records? Is the WHERE clause
correct in your SQL that you posted? Make sure that the Report | Data menu
has the proper pipeline selected (the name of the dataview).
Cheers,First, upgrade to RB 7.01. You will find the rich text printing is better
than in RB 6. There were a few fixes to correct rich text rendering for this
release.
Then you should let the rich text control break across pages in a si…If there are groups, then left to right traversal is not fully supported in
this configuration. Try taking the group definitions out of the report to
see if the problem goes away.
Cheers,
Jim Bennett
Digital Meta…Please contact the vendor of your PDF output device.
Cheers,
Jim Bennett
Digital Metaphors
Can you test your report with RB 7.01 trial edition to see if the problem
goes away? There have been fixes to RB from version 6.03 to 7, (over a
year's worth of fixes and enhancements). If you can reproduce the problem
in RB 7.01, th…If you want to suppress repeated values, then here is an example to do that
manually:
http://www.digital-metaphors.com/tips/SuppressRe…There is a DetailBand.Overflow property you can check to see if a detail
band is printing on the next as well. This is like printing a
"continued...' label in the main reports demos #71.
Cheers,
Jim Bennett
Digi…There is no runtime object inspector. You can use the toolbar (there should
be two drop down lists for these two properties) in the designer for a
selected component to change the datapipeline and datafield for that
component. All of …It shouldn't stop the process. The strange thing is that KeepTogether is
not true, which is what I would expect it to be in order to cause any
problem. I've been playing around with the demo to simplify it, but I can't
get it to beha…Hi Tony,
I get the behavior you describe in the demo. It appears that the detail band
is firing its before print event quite often. Can you create a calculated
field on the dataset to filter the records instead of trying to turn…Please send attachments to support@digital-metaphors.com
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Cheers,
Jim Bennett
Digital Metaphors
Call
Report.ShowPrintDialog := False;
Report.Print;
or
Make a call to Report.PrintToDevices where you control the print process.
Cheers,
Jim Bennett
Digital MetaphorsReportBuilder 7 contains new support for Delphi 7. ReportBuilder 6.03 only
supports Delphi 4, 5 and 6. Please update to ReportBuilder 7 if you want to
have Delphi 7 support. Contact info@digital-metaphors.com for upgrade
information, …Sometimes, printers don't handle clear text brushes in a non transparent
configuration. Use the tip approach below if you want to calculate the dots
to print in the space between your two report components.
This demo uses a TppV…You will be interested in our next release:) RB 7.02 will be able to print
the report in a background thread. There will be a BackgroundSettings
property you can set on the report. This will enable a checkbox on the print
dialog so t…You could ask the RBAddOn authors for further information about when it
is/will be officially out of beta.
mailto:rbaddon@bancoems.com
Cheers,
Jim Bennett
Digital Metaphors
Add ppChrtUI to your uses clause to enable runtime support for the Teechart
editor in the report designer.
Cheers,
Jim Bennett
Digital Metaphors
You have to rerequest the page from the report engine. The demo show show to
do that, although from a different mechanism. The calls to rerequest the
page are going to be the same. Copy the RedrawThePage method of this example
and use…When you are in the print dialog close event, you are still in the call to
Report.Print. The first thing to try is to make a page request on the screen
device. Here is an example that rerequests the page from a draw command
click even…