nardmoseley
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The example descends from TppAutoSearchDialog which uses the custom panel
approach. You can alternatively descend from TppCustomAutoSearchDialog (see
ppForms.pas). TppCustomAutoSearchDialog descends from TForm and adds a
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Try the following, I think that will help...
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Tech Tip: Clearing the Meta Data Cache
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There is a global meta data cache that the Re… -
- best solution is to use the run-time Pascal environment (RAP) that is
included with ReportBuilder Enterprise to code the event-handlers. That way,
the report code is stored as part of the report definition
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- The tblFolder.Locate is not going to help.
- The tblItem.Locate should work by itself, as long you do not have two
items with the same name stored in different folders. I do not know why that
locate would be failing.
What is count? I think that is your problem.
You should only use TppVariable components to peform calculations. By
default, a page re-generates each time you navigate to it in the viewer or
print it to the printer, or pr…
Please see the articles in the Calculations thread of the Tech Tips
newsgroups and the Calculations tutorials in the RB Developers Guide.
You need to use TppVariable and the OnCalc event to perform all calcuations.
The …
options:
- use RB's TppDBRichText. There are no known issues with it not honoring
fonts. I recommend using common True Type fonts that would be installed to
any machine and available to any printer driver.
- W…
- run RBuilder\Demos\Reports\Demo.dpr and select the 'no database' section.
There are JITPipeline demos in that section that use calculations
- The DBCalc has no concept of what type of datapipeline it is connected to,
i…
My fault on that one..sorry about that.
Thanks for the feedback. I put these on the list of items to research...
For future reference, please do not crosspost...
I would try creating a detail query linked to a master query. You can link
two dataviews by dragging the detail field to the master field. Then double
click on the visual link to access the Linking dialog and you can specify
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Oops, I missed responding to this one by mistake.
- try moving that last condition to the Where clause. You can specify the
tablename.fieldname as the search condition. Here is the modified version...
select custom…
Using the DBDemos data included Delphi, can you provide an example SQL
statement that you would like to create?
- Perhaps you are new to RAP? If so please work thru the RAP related
tutorials in the RB Developers Guide and the Learning ReportBuilder RAP
end-user guide.
- To simply things for end-users, RAP does not use the Delphi C…
Report.AutoSearchDescription will return a description of what was entered
or you can use TppReport.GetAutoSearchDescriptionLines to get it a
TStringList.
For an example check out RBuilder\Demos\5. AutoSearch\5. Build De…The following article explains how to convert templates from DADE plug-in
type to another. The example is BDE to ADO, but the same concepts apply to
any conversion.
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Try creating a simple example report that produces the error and that we can
run here. Use only standard Delphi components and RB. Send in zip format to
support@digital-metaphors.com and we can check it out here.
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Try updating the printer driver and try testing with a different printer. I
reread the posts in this thread and you describe this problem as being
related to RichText, which internally will rely upon the printer driver
(even for pr…
Try to determine what is different about the machines that have the issue.
Are they running Win98?
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Nard Moseley
Digital Metaphors
www.digital-metaphors.com
If you have RB third-party add-ons or custom add-ons, then those will need
to be updated as well. Other than that you can just install and rebuild.
There are known issues with an error such as this.
I think you misunderstood. The update from RB 7.03 to RB 7.04 is free. Send
an email request, including your serial number and registration info to
info@digital-metaphors.com and request an update.
This is not a known issue.
- try downloading the latest printer driver and testing with a different
printer driver. RichText rendering (even for preview) is done using the
printer device context - which means that window…
Here is an example that I created. (I tested using RB 10.03, if you have an
earlier version it may or may not work)
www.digital-metaphors.com/tips/PrintQuality.zip
- What DADE plug-in are you using?
- When a report is opened for editing, I do not think the dataset is
acivated. Or do you mean the report is opened for preview?
- Add RBuilder\Source to the Delphi library path and…- please do not type in uppercase. This indicates yelling and therefore is
not appropriate
- here is an article that will help you
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Article: Printing to Dot Matrix Print…
- please do not type in uppercase. This indicates yelling and therefore is
not appropriate
- In Windows all devices such as video displays and printers use a driver.
Drivers support Windows API commands. This enables app…- To customize the Help see the article below
- There is a Learning ReportBuilder and Learning ReportBuilder RAP end-user
guides that contain excellent tutorials, the Learning ReportBuilder RAP
focuses specifically on teaching…
There are no known issues with migrating from RB 7.x to RB 10.x, thousands
of customers have migrated successfully.
- I suspect that you have corrupt installation. Please follow the steps in
the following article. If you…- RB 9.03 was the last release produced for RB 9.x. Email
info@digital-metaphors.com with your serial number and registration info and
request download information. (RB 10.03 is the latest release and includes
support for D2006, D2…
Try creating a custom preview plugin class and override the Cancel method.
The preview plugin manages the viewer, toolbar, outline and other user
interface contols displayed by the preview dialog and the designer preview