RCL

HyperLinks

Use the new HyperLink and HyperLinkColor properties to display hyperlinked text in the Viewer, PDF, and Web Viewer. Hyperlink items are hot clickable - web and email addresses are supported. The Label.Caption property can auto-detect web and email addresses.

PaintBox

Use the new Paintbox component to draw directly to a canvas. The Draw commands are internally stored as a metafile that can be rendered to Screen and Printer. The RB 11 PDF Device can convert metafiles to native PDF graphics resulting in high quality PDF rendering of paintbox content.

Use the OnPrint event to access the PaintBox.Canvas and draw text, lines, images, etc.

Note: The PaintBox to supports drawing to the canvas from both Delphi code and RAP code.

Example:

  myPaintBox.Canvas.Font.Name := 'Times New Roman';
  myPaintBox.Canvas.Font.Size := 10;
  myPaintBox.Canvas.TextOut(2, 2, 'Hello Paintbox!');

SummaryBand

Use the new SummarBand.AlignToBottom property to control whether the summary band prints at the bottom of the band, like a footer. When the FooterBand.Visible and PrintOnLastPage are true, setting AlignToBottom to true, results in the summary appearing just above the footer. Otherwise, when no footer is present, the summary will apear at the bottom of the page.

SystemVariable

Use the new SystemVariable options to automatically display the AutoSearch Description on your reports or to print Copy information. The following new options are available. 

Image, Line, BarCode, DBBarcode

The Image component has new AlignHorizontal and AlignVertical options to control the horizontal and vertical positing of the image.

The Line component has new support for diagonal lines.

The BarCode and 2DBarCode components have a new AlignBarCode property for controlling the horizontal position of the barcode.

RichText

RichText contains several new enhancements, including support for FullJustication, LeftMargin, Transparent, and default Font. MailMerge support has been extended to include DBRichText.

Use either the built-in RichText Editor or the RichText.Paragraph property to control
paragraph formatting for alignment, indentation, numbering, and tabs. To format a paragraph for full justification, select the paragraph in the editor and use the format toolbar. Or programmatically use the RichText.Paragraph property

uses
  ppTypes,
  ppRichTx;

begin

   // set paragraph text alignment to full justifieds
   myRichText.Paragraph.TextAlignment := taFullJustified;
end;

Use the LeftMargin property to specifies an inner margin for rendering the text inside the left edge of the control. This is in addition to any paragraph formatting embedded in the rtf data.New RichText controls have a default LeftMargin property of 0, while RichText controls created with prior RB versions will default to 1/32 inch for backward compatibility.

RichText can be rendered to the printer with support for transparency.

RichText can be rendered to PDF with full quality.

Set RichText.Font to control the default font used for the control.

The RichText Editor has new support for updating the format toolbar to reflect the the common formatting properties of the selected text - also known as the 'consistent attributes'.  

New Report Events

uses
  ppPDFDevice;

var
  lPDFDevice: TppPDEFDevice;

begin
  if (myReport.FileDevice is TppPDFDevice) then
  begin
    lPDFDevice := TppPDFDevice(myReport.FileDevice);

    // add code here to configure PDFDevice properties...

  end;

end;

uses
  ppTypes;

procedure Form1.ppReport1OnPrinterDeviceStateChange(Sender: TObject; aStateChange: 
TppDeviceStateChangeType);

begin
  if (aStateChange = dsAfterStartPage) then
    ppReport1.SendEscape('some escape code here');

end;