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First make sure you have the latest printer drivers and the latest SP for
NT. Otherwise, is there anything in particular you can think of which
clearly differentiates this machine from the other 300 machines?
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Cheers,
Here is an example that will give you an idea of how to accomplish this. It
starts with a landscape report. When requested to rotate two section
subreports are dynamically created (to allow two separate pages). Then all
the objects ar…There is no native support for this in RB. However, especially in a simple
case like this you can use richtext instead of a memo and translate the HTML
into RichText. In fact, here's an example I put together that does exactly
that. I…Here is the way to create the TppPrintPreview and have the print button
work:
uses
ppPrvDlg;
procedure TForm1.Button1Click(Sender: TObject);
var
lPreview: TppPrintPreview;
begin
lPrevie…The following article describes the use of the TppVariable component for
calculations:
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TECH TIP: Performing Calculations
----------------------------…Can you describe what an invoice is exactly? Is it a group of details, a
subreport, a single detail record? There are different approaches to solve
this problem depending on how this invoice is constructed.
Cheers,
<…> > - Aggregation (+what aggregation features are available?)
Sorry, missed this one. I assume you are referring to aggregate functions on
the data? This could be accomplished with the end user dataview designer,
DADE, whi…Most, if not all, of the below are either directly or indirectly supported.
RB is 100% Object Pascal which means you have access to most of the source.
That means that if something isn't directly supported, the likelyhood is
that it c…When using TeeChart and ReportBuilder in Delphi you will encounter this
error message upon compiling.
In order to get around it you can:
1. Build your project with packages.
2. Purchase TeeChart Pro fromPlease see ReportBuilder Reference->TeeChart in RBuilder help for a listing
of TeeChart version support. Specifically, in D5, TeeChart 4.02, 5.01, and
5.02a are fully supported under RB 6.03.
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Cheers,
Alexan…You can store the name of the database as well as the parameters with each
template. That way, when you load the template you can access that data and
know which database to connect to and which parameters to pass to the
database obje…You can use the calc components to calulate the values. You can place these
components in any band and they will calculate based on the traversal of the
pipeline. You can set the LookAhead property of the Variable or DBCalc
componen…It works because when the preview is to be created, it pulls the plugin from
a registration scheme. Look in the TppPrintPreview.FormCreate and in the
TppDesignerWindow.Create (ppPrvDlg.pas and ppDsgner.pas) methods and you'll
find:To make the preview plugin work, you need to simply register any
TppCustomPreview descendent. It will be used in all of your reports as long
as it is registered. You can use the default by unregistering yours and
registering the def…Set SkipWhenNoRecords to true on the grand-child detail pipeline.
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Cheers,
Alexander Kramnik
Digital Metaphors
One thing to check is the actual SQL which is generated by Control-Clicking
on the dataview to check the actual SQL which will be submitted. It is
possible that an invalid SQL statement is being generated which is not
retrieving any r…I set up the project you described using Midas and was able to successfully
run a master detail report with search criteria. First I want to make sure
you are describing your setup correctly. Also I'm a little confused on
whether you …Place a Try..Except around the call to LoadFromFile in case the template
fails to load. Then you don't want to save the template to the database if
it raises an ETemplateLoadError exception.
BTW- You do not have to set the SaveT…Do the numeric fields simply not display any data, i.e. the field name is
blank? Or are they never actually encountered when traversing Fields in your
loop? This might have something to do with the calculation of the FieldWidth
(i.e. …This is a multi-part message in MIME format.
One option is to load the templates and iterate through all the objects and
change the field names. For example:
for liBands := 0 to ppReport.BandCount - 1 do
for liObjects := 0 to ppReport.Bands[liBands].ObjectCount - 1 doThe first step is to make sure you have the latest printer driver installed.
Which printer are you using? We can download the latest driver and test it
here.
Cheers,
Jim Bennett
Digital Metaphors
Please do not crosspost. You can pick any of the newsgroups and you should
get a response. Post only in general if you aren't sure about which
newsgroup you should post to.
Cheers,
Jim Bennett
Digital Metaphors…ReportBuilder should show all installed fonts for the machine. The first
thing to check is to see if this font is installed? You should check the
Control Panel | Fonts to see if it is, though if you can see it from Word
then it must …Most printers do not support transparency very well, if at all. Install the
latest pritner driver available and try toggling DirectDraw to true on the
TppImage component.
Cheers,
Jim Bennett
Digital Metaph…WMFs do not store alpha values so it is not possible to do true
transparency. The way PowerPoint handles this, I think, is it uses the first
pixel in the array as the transparent color, in this case white. It then
creates a mask (in t…Sure, send it to support@digital-metaphors.com and I'll be happy to try it
out.
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Cheers,
Alexander Kramnik
Digital Metaphors
In general, WMFs do not support transparency. Use Bitmaps instead.
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Cheers,
Alexander Kramnik
Digital Metaphors
RAP is only available in RB Enterprise. You can implement an event handler
in Delphi which will accomplish this. You could potentially event get away
with one event hadler for all the component by implementing the OnPrint
event which …You have RB Professional, RAP is only included in the Enterprise version.
You could create a custom data aware component which does this and use it to
create your reports for the numeric fields coming through the data pipeline.
You ca…