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ANN: ReportBuilder 12.02 is now available including Delphi XE support

edited September 2010 in General
Digital Metaphors Corporation announces the release of ReportBuilder 12.02!


ReportBuilder 12.02 includes VCL Win32 support for Delphi XE, 2010, 2009,
2007, 2006, 2005, Delphi 7, and Delphi 6.

Notification emails have been sent to all registered users of ReportBuilder
12.x. If you did not receive notification of this release please send
message to info@digital-metaphors.com with your serial number and purchasing
email address for upgrade instructions.


Overview & screenshots:
http://www.digital-metaphors.com/rbWiki/General/What's_New/RB_12

New Feature List: http://www.digital-metaphors.com/PDF/NewFeatures.pdf

Pricing: http://www.digital-metaphors.com/order/


Upgrade Now!


Enhancements for RB 12.02
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Delphi IDE
- new Delphi XE Support!

Output
- PDF. Added support for Arabic scripts with Unicode.
- PDF. Added Right-to-Left text support with Unicode.
- TIFF. Added SingleFile & TiffWidth properties to support faxing.



Bug Fixes for RB 12.02
----------------------

Designer
- Toolbar Color palette. Setting color to None did not properly update
button state
- Toolbar items. Fix to not fire click when mouse down itemA, then mouse
up itemB.
- Object Inspector. Fix for scrolling to bottom most row.
- DataTreeBuilder. Sometimes DataPipeline hierarchy not shown correctly.

RCL
- RichText. Rendering RichText could sometimes truncate the last character
- Stretchable. MinHeight property not streamed correctly for
copy/paste/loading.
- CustomText. Fix for saving custom text with underline font style
- DBImage. Fix to support JITPipeline.GetFieldAsPicture
- Template. Unicode fix for text based templates that are encoded as UTF-8
- TeeChart. Thread saftey checks added when converting a chart to a
metafile.
- DrawImage. Reverted AsBitmap routine for PNG files (black background
issue).


Engine
- Page.NewJob not reset, causes problems loading reports with Email/New
File Groups.
- DetailBand. Fix for Background when PrintHeight is phDyanmic.

DataPipeline
- DBPipeline. Added support for ftExtended TFieldType.
- JITPipeline. Implementing OnGetFieldAsPicture or OnGetFieldAsStream,
supports both methods.

Output
- PDF. Wrapped Text was not honoring the selected fallBack font
- PDF. Bi-directional text inside a PDF is now exported correctly.
- PDF. Fixed a range check error when exporting to PDF.
- PDF metagraphics. Sometimes rotated text not displaying in the correct
position
- PDF metagraphics. IntersectClipRect commands cause PDF graphics state to
get out of sync
- PDF. Some transparent PNG files were exporting to PDF with black
backgrounds.
- Email Groups. Group files were being emailed even when EmailFile was
False.
- SMPTOutlook. A new Email object needs to be create each time an email is
sent.
- XLSReport. Last merged cell entry was not being written.
- XLSReport. Modified to render shapes as transparent when fill color is
white.
- XLSReport and xLSData. Added more display format conversion logic,
relace ' with "
- XLSData. Fix for XLSData export, for multiline text.
- XLSData and TextFile, save components are sometimes doubled.
- XLSData and TextFile, added logic to assign BandType to DrawCommand, fix
for data export
- XLSData. Iimproved defailt export from Archives (.raf) to include detail
band elements
- XLSData. Added logic to add blank cells for empty cols as needed
- XLSData. Modified to align vertical to top of cells
- XLS and RTF, when Shape.Brush and Pen are both clear, do not render
anything.
- Image. Image export was skipping pages for reports containing groups or
subreports
- Image. Image devices did not work at Delphi design-time.
- Preview. When Preview used on a panel, the outline viewer was not always
reset properly.
- Preview. Small fix for zoom edit, case when % is entered
- Preview. Email button was not properly hidden when EmailSettings.Enabled
set to False.
- Printer. Fix for right aligned text truncation error with Win7


-----> Professional <----------

DADE
- QueryDesigner. Fix for AV when creating a dataview w/EditSQLText that
contains :Parameter.
- QueryDesigner. Added support for Report.Icon
- SQL. Fix for DataDictionaryBuilder issue with adding joins.
- SQL. Optimized Assign, when EditSQLAsText True, do not always set
SQLOutOfSync to true
- Preview Data. Added support for Report.Icon

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http://www.digital-metaphors.com
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Comments

  • edited September 2010
    I am installing RB12.02 for D2007, D2010 & DXE. Well trying to.:-(

    RBENT11 - D2007 - No Problem.
    RBENT14 - D2010 - No Problem.
    RBENT15 - DXE - Deletes D2010 files and installs DXE correctly
    Reinstall RBENT14 - D2010 - Deletes DXE files then installs D2101
    correctly.


    Help!
  • edited September 2010
    Hi Ian,

    Please re-download and re-install ReportBuilder for Delphi XE from our
    website to solve the issue. Thank you for pointing this out and we are very
    sorry for the inconvenience.

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    Regards,

    Nico Cizik
    Digital Metaphors
    http://www.digital-metaphors.com

    Best Regards,

    Nico Cizik
    Digital Metaphors
    http://www.digital-metaphors.com
  • edited September 2010
    Hi

    I didn't see it in the features or bug fixes list, but wondering if this
    release has Turkish charset support for pdf outputs?

    Bora Aydemir

    10/09/2010 23:01, Digital Metaphors yazmis:
  • edited September 2010
    Hi Bora,

    Yes it does.

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    Regards,

    Nico Cizik
    Digital Metaphors
    http://www.digital-metaphors.com

    Best Regards,

    Nico Cizik
    Digital Metaphors
    http://www.digital-metaphors.com
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