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Hi Gustavo,
If you would like to save a report template to database you can do so by
defining the Report.Template.DatabaseSettings then calling
Template.SaveToDatabase. See the tutorials in the ReportBuilder Developer's
Hi Karen,
ReportBuilder renders to the printer using the Delphi TCanvas class and via
calls to Windows GDI functions.
We do not have any direct experience with sending escape codes directly to
the printer driver. Ac…------------------------------------------
Tech Tip: Detecting whether PrintDialog's
Cancel button was Selected
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When the print dialog is displayed to the
user, you…Hi Karen,
Try using a combination of the PrintDialog events and the AfterPrint event.
The following code worked for me (although there are probably many ways to
do this).
private
FPreviewClose: Boolean;Hi Heraldo,
If you typecast the Report.PreviewForm property as a TppPrintPreview object
you can gain access to the speedbutton properties defined in the public
section of that class (ppPrvDlg.pas).
In order to get a…If possible, please send a small example demonstrating this behavior to
support@digital-metaphors.com in .zip format and I'll take a look at it for
you.
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Regards,
Nico Cizik
Digital Metaphors
Hi Karen,
If you set your debugger to stop on exceptions and add the
\RBuilder\Source\... directory, where is the AV occuring?
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Regards,
Nico Cizik
Digital Metaphors
in Page break and printing more than 1 page problem Comment by nicocizik October 2005Hi Karen,
Once you have created all your text files, you can loop through each one and
print it using the method you were using to print the single text file. I
would try streaming each file then outputing the text to the Pri…Hi Karen,
This error should not affect the way the example runs (the outline was added
for RB 7 and the example was created in RB 9). You should just be able to
select the "ignore" option when you get this error and still run…Hi Karen,
Two options...
1. Take a look at the following example on how to print each page to a
different text file. This way you could use your current code and print
each file after it is generated.
<…Hi Karen,
For future reference, please send all attachment to
support@digital-metaphors.com.
If you trace through the code in the PrintInvoiceTextFileToPrinter routine
are you able to see why lines from the second p…This question has been answered in a previous post.
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Nico Cizik
Digital Metaphors
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Hi,
There is a patch available for this issue. Please send a small email to
support@digital-metaphors.com requesting the patch and we'll send it right
out to you.
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Regards,
Nico Cizik
Digita…Hi Jeff,
There is no reference to the actual page range in the TppPrintDialog class,
however there are two options to gain access to this information.
1. Create a custom print dialog that exposes this value. See the art…Hi Karen,
When creating reports to be printed to a Dot Matrix printer it is much
easier to use PrinterPixels as a measurement tool rather than inches. For
instance if you set your PrinterSetup to measure with 600 dpi, t…Hi Angelo,
If the image is inside a different band, will it show up? Please send a
copy of the image to support@digital-metaphors.com and I'll try to view it
in an archive here.
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Regards,
Nico Ci…Hi Angelo,
This is not a known issue with the Archive device. Are you able to see the
images when you preview the report on screen or print to the printer?
Please download a trial version of RB 9.03 and see if the issue still…Hi Luca,
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Article: Troubleshooting Lost Event Handlers
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Let's assume you have created a report in Delphi and assign an event
Hello,
The text search feature was not available until ReportBuilder 7.01. You
will need to upgrade to a later version to enable this feature.
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Regards,
Nico Cizik
Digital Metaphors
in Text Search funtionality for TppViewer class on RB ver 6.03 Comment by nicocizik October 2005Hi Val,
Yes, in most cases, we will answer questions posted in our newsgroups as if
we are talking to a Delphi developer. In this case, it is necessary to add
some code (as in the example I sent) to provide the feature you wa…Hi Val,
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Article: End-User Tech Support
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Please understand that Digital Metaphors can only provide tech support to
the Delphi dev…Hi,
Take a look at the following example. It shows how to start each group on
an odd page to help with duplexing.
http://www.digita…Hi,
The ReportBuilder PDF Export contains the ability to compress your PDF file
at different levels using the PDFSettings.CompressionLevel property. In our
tests a PDF file generated by ReportBuilder was no larger than …Hi,
You might try exporting to PDF using the built-in PDF device included with
ReportBuilder. This device will convert all unknown drawcommands to images
before exporting them to a PDF file. I am unsure if this is possible w…Hi Nick,
If you typecast the PrintDialog.Printer property of the TppReport object as
a TppPrinter, you can gain access to the selected printer name. Something
like the following..
uses
ppPrintr;
l…Hi Karen,
As a test I created a simple report with a subreport and a DBMemo. The
subreport was above the DBMemo which was set to stretch and shiftrelativeto
the subreport. After exporting this to a Report Emulation Text File…Hi Bill,
You can check the PrintDialog.DeviceType property to find out which device
was printed to. This value can be checked in the OnPrintDialogClose or the
AfterPrint event.
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Regards,
Nico Ciz…Edward,
Version 9.03 was just release a couple weeks ago. An email was sent out to
every registered user of RB 9.0x notifying of this upgrade. I apoligize if
you did not receive this notification. Please contact
info…Hi Edward,
If you are using the help file included with RB 9.02, there should be a
topic for the TppPDFDevice object. This includes instructions and an
example of how to use the device. Also, for RB 9.02, two demos were adde…Hi Sandy,
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Tech Tip: Configuring Printer Specific Options
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The Report.PrinterSetup properties can be used to set the pr…