nardmoseley
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ReportBuilder 9.02 has been available since March.
Registered users of RB 9 that did not receive notification about RB 9.02
should contact info@digital-metaphors.com with their serial number and
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Please see the following article.
Also note that RB 7 was the first thread-safe version of ReportBuilder. I
do not recommend using RB 6.x in any kind of multi-threaded environment.
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Transparent in this context refers to the copy mode that is applied to the
canvas.
if Transparent then
FCanvas.CopyMode := SrcAnd
else
FCanvas.CopyMode := SrcCopy;
There is no transparent … -
Try setting spHeight and spWidth...
ppDBImage1.spHeight :=
ppDBImage1.spWidth :=
For convenience the RB components have properties called spHeight and
spWidth that are in screen pixels. The conversion is done i… -
1. Browser support
I just download Netscape 8 and tested against our live demo server and it
works quite well. I have also tested FireFox successfully.
2. Licensing
What is the goal of the CD, is it a tri… -
This has been improved for RB 9. Download a trial version and perform the
same test.
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Nard Moseley
Digital Metaphors Corporation
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You can download the latest Builder Controls from this page on our web site.
It includes an updated version that supports RB 9.
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ReportBuilder 7.04 is the latest produced version that supports Delphi 5. If
you purchase an update to ReportBuilder 9, you can request access to
download RB 7.04 for Delphi 5.
Reports created with prior versions should … -
Thanks for your interest in RB for .NET.
Digital Metaphors is currently working on RB for .NET. The project is being
approached in phases. The first phase will have the ability to preview and
print reports in .NET, while relyi… -
The WordWrap feature in ReportBuilder is working as designed.
1. A Memo or DBMemo always wraps text, therefore there is no boolean
property to turn it on/off.
2. If you set CharWrap to true, then the words can broke… -
Sounds like its an unlimited number of db's with an identical proprietary
schema used by your application. That would be ok. That adheres to the
intent of the license.
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1. Not a licensing problem. From a performance, quality perspective I
recommend that you consider using RB Server Edition.
http://www.digital-metaphors.com… -
Try doing a Project | Build rather than a compile. An internal error during
compilation means that the compiler itself has an error (i.e. a bug in the
compiler). This is not something that we have encountered.
Try doing … -
1. If the issue happens at Delphi design-time, then check that RB TeeChart
related packages are installed.
2. If the issue happens at run-time, then you need to include the
appropriate units in the 'uses' clause of your … -
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Digital Metaphors Corporation
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1. For future reference. If have encounter an issue, please comment out all
of your event-handler code associated with the report and then re-test. In
general, run-time code can quite easily sabbotage the report generation
pr… -
You can set the Band.PrintPosition property to specify the vertical page
position at which it will start printing.
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Nard Moseley
Digital Metaphors Corporation
in Can't set dynamic printheight to dynamic Comment by nardmoseley July 2005 -
At design-time, set Report.PrinterSetup.PrinterName to the name of the POS
printer. Then the font drop down list should show all fonts supported by the
printer.
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Goal for phase I is end of 2005...
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Nard Moseley
Digital Metaphors Corporation
http://www.digital-metaphors.com
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We arrived at our current approach only after working on VCL.NET for over 6
months.
A ReportBuilder for VCL.NET product has been shelved, just prior to
completion. There are no plans to release it unless the VCL.NET plat… -
Thanks for your interest in RB for .NET.
Digital Metaphors is currently working on RB for .NET. The project is being
approached in phases. The first phase will have the ability to preview and
print reports in .NET, while… -
Probably should do it prior to loading the report.
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Nard Moseley
Digital Metaphors Corporation
http://www.digital-metaphors.com
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This is not a known issue.
ReportBuilder caches information about the available printers. Perhaps while
the application is running this information is changing (i.e. printers are
being removed/added on the machine or the… -
The goal is the end of this year
We do not have anything to offer that would support .NET Windows Forms.
You can use RB Server Edition to publish reports in an ASP.NET application.
The reports will execu… -
I recommend using a subreport rather than the region. You can remove the
childreport's title/summary and just use the detail. You can place the Line
in a Region and set to shift relative to the DBMemo3. You can use set the
DB… -
ReportBuilder simply opens the dataset and traverses it, using dataset
methods such as First, Next, GetBookmark, GotoBookmark. ReportBuilder does
not do any low level data access calls.
From the error description, sounds… -
Here is a downloadable example.
www.digital-metaphors.com/tips/PrinterEscapeCommands.zip
(Thanks to Sher Hurlburt who sent an example to me yesterday, which I used
to create this downloadable example.)
When printing to the printer, Report.PrinterDevice will be non nil. You
might trying using its OnStartPage or OnEndPage events. You have to assign
these in the Report.BeforePrint event.
In the Report.BeforePrint ev…
We do not have any examples, but it is definitely doable. I have
corresponded with customers who have implemented this.
ReportBuilder is not 'eating' any of your calls. ReportBuilder issues
commands to Begin/End the prin…
RB 9 has a new PageBreak component....
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Nard Moseley
Digital Metaphors Corporation
http://www.digital-metaphors.com