Question on a tppLabel desendant

rbuser

I'm making a TppLanguageCaption that will get a enduser caption from our
database based on the caption in the component.

however I run in a litle problem with showing the Datapipeline and
datafield propertiy allong with the caption property in the toolbar, I
need all.

An other question is can I invoke a query without having to setup a
datapipeline. this component will be in our application and so no need
to have the users specify the source/ sql for collecting the specific
caption text. Now I am looping through all components hoping to find a
dbaware and finding its database pointer but there must be a better way
as I hope to have be abble to avoid having to do this for very one of my
compnent that is droped on the report.

Thanks for the help.

Walter
CPI AG

digitalmetaphors

You should be able to override the IsDataAware method in your descendent and
return true. This should cause the toolbar to show the data pipeline and
datafield boxes.

Create a single pipeline that isn't connected to the report. Use this
pipeline for all of the components that you have this special dataset. It
will return the first record only since it isn't connected to a report
component and so there is no data traversal engine to traverse the records.
You can use a TppJITPipeline to do this.

Cheers,

Jim Bennett
Digital Metaphors

rbuser

Hi Jim.

I know about the dataAware, I have found the artical, however I can not
get to show the Caption as well as the DataAware edit fields in the
toolbar. I have solved it by using a popup menu, not as good but it will
do unless you know how to show all 3.

I use A TQuery in my component to retrieve & manage the translation. I
get the reports connection from the
TppDBDatapipeline.datasource.dataset.databasename and seems to work well.

Anyway, excelent tool, and super service.

Walter
CPI

digitalmetaphors

You can't show all three in the toolbar. The best solution is going to be
to do what you are doing. You could place all three in the dialog and leave
the caption in the toolbar additionally.

You could also descend from TppDBText to get the DataPipeline and Datafield
drop edit boxes in the toolbar. Then you can provide for the Caption
property in the popup menu. These are the options available.


Cheers,

Jim Bennett
Digital Metaphors