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  • - is this an RB Server application? In other words an application in which
    you are using RB Server Edition to build a multier reporting solution?

    - Or is this a standard Delphi app that includes the RB reporting engine?
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    in Proxy Settings in Windows - RB10 D6.2 Comment by nardmoseley December 2006

  • Makes sense then.

    There are really two cases here

    - I want my report to use the Printer settings (DevMode) from the Windows
    control panel (plus the Report.PrinterSetup settings)

    - I want my report to use …
    in Colour printer is set to Black and White but Report Designer prints it out in color Comment by nardmoseley December 2006

  • RB 10.04 includes improvements for merging the Report.PrinterSetup
    properties with the DevMode settings from the Windows Control panel.

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    Nard Moseley
    Digital Metaphors
    www.digital-metaphors.com
    in Colour printer is set to Black and White but Report Designer prints it out in color Comment by nardmoseley December 2006

  • - Try calling Subreport.Free instead. I just tested and that seemed to work.

    - NoDataBehaviors controls what happens when the dataset is empty.
    SkipWhenNoRecords is used to determine what happens whether a master record
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    in Can a SubReport be turned off Comment by nardmoseley December 2006

  • Try setting subreport.Band to nil, that will remove the subreport from the
    report.

    When the main report engine initializes, it finds all of the datapipelines
    used in the report and initializes/opens all of them.
    in Can a SubReport be turned off Comment by nardmoseley December 2006

  • That is not currently supported, but it is on our list of features to add.


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    in Displaying web links in HTML Comment by nardmoseley December 2006

  • - do not change the Interface section of any of the ReportBuilder units.

    - there is a note in the RB source code that explains DisplayFormat is
    declared protected because TppLabel does not support it.

    - I recommend …
    in TppCustomText.Displayformat Comment by nardmoseley December 2006

  • This works correctly using RB 10.04. (Previous versions did not support the
    brush style).

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    Nard Moseley
    Digital Metaphors
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    in Shape - Style: bsBDiagonal and Black Color Comment by nardmoseley December 2006

  • - you can send to support@digital-metaphors.com in zip format. Please
    include only the .dpr, .res, .pas, .dfm that are required to run the
    project. Use Delphi components and ReportBuilder.

    - If yo have a report that prod…
    in How do I send you a small program Comment by nardmoseley December 2006

  • - create a main report and remove the header and footer
    - add two subreports to the detail and set each to PrintBehavior of
    pbSection
    - layout the front page on subreport1 and the back page on subreport2

    We have othe…
    in Double Sided Reports Comment by nardmoseley December 2006

  • To include GIF support in applications that you build, add ppGIF to the
    'uses' clause.


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    Nard Moseley
    Digital Metaphors
    www.digital-metaphors.com
    in GIF Image Problems Comment by nardmoseley December 2006

  • Thanks for the feeback. This is the first request that we have had for
    something like that.

    The current AutoSearch Dialog is comprised of 'autosearch panels' that are
    instantiated on the fly - one for each search criteri…
    in Dialog Builder like FastReport Comment by nardmoseley December 2006

  • - a report/subreport will traverse the datapipeline to which it is assigned
    and generate a detail band for each record

    - each time the detail band generates on the page, it will allow each of its
    child components to gene…
    in Cross Tab - repeat Comment by nardmoseley December 2006

  • - All RB Editions support coding event-handlers via Delphi code. You can
    code Report.BeforePrint or DetailBand.BeforePrint just as you would with any
    other VCL component. Select the component via the RB Designer and it will
    b…
    in considereing RB but... Comment by nardmoseley December 2006

  • - Yes exactly, to "roll back" you would uninstall RB 10.04, install RB 7.04,
    and then restore your reports and source code.

    - Yes, the fix for the image rendering is included in RB 10.04 as well as
    fixes to other issues …
    in Pros and Cons of upgrading Comment by nardmoseley January 2007

  • Wow lots of silence on this one..guess everyone is either busy getting their
    work done with RB 10 or perhaps still recovering from New Year's eve... in Pros and Cons of upgrading Comment by nardmoseley January 2007

  • RB 9 introduces some architecture changes for the RCL component classes.
    These changes requires updates to add-on components that are were using in
    RB 7 and prior. Contact WPTools about an update that is compatible with RB 9
    …
    in ppDsgnCt in RB 10.04 Comment by nardmoseley January 2007

  • There are no known issues with bitmaps not printing correctly in RB 10.04. I
    recommend downloading a trial version from our web site and perform some
    tests.

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    Nard Moseley
    Digital Metaphors
    www.digital-m…
    in ppTWPaintbox Comment by nardmoseley January 2007

  • A few months ago, we had a customer inform us that some of the links on the
    RCL Components were no longer working, so we tested all of the entries and
    cleaned them up.

    We will look into adding a Paintbox component to a f…
    in ppTWPaintbox Comment by nardmoseley January 2007

  • Download a trial version of RB Server Edition. It contains an ASP example.
    The RB WebTier can publish a report explorer interface and you can
    optionally bypass it and just invoke the reports directly (see tech tip
    below). To …
    in Reports & ASP Comment by nardmoseley January 2007

  • I recommend contacting WP Tools tech support about this issue. Perhaps they
    have an update to the wrapper code. (I was hoping one of our customers who
    uses WP Tools would post an answer to your question).


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    in Perhaps someone can give me a hint. Comment by nardmoseley January 2007

  • ----------------------------------------
    Tech Tip: Clearing the Meta Data Cache
    ----------------------------------------

    There is a global meta data cache that the ReportBuilder uses to cache
    information about the av…
    in Refreshing the table cache Comment by nardmoseley January 2007

  • I think what you are asking is 'How can edit the SQL directly and still have
    the visual linking (and autosearch) support?'

    That is something we would like to add to a future release. It is hard to
    predict what issues you…
    in Replacing TdaSQL functionality Comment by nardmoseley January 2007
  • Please see the new thread, 'Resolving RB 10.05 Installation Issues'


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    Nard Moseley
    Digital Metaphors
    www.digital-metaphors.com
    in Install problems 10.5 Comment by nardmoseley January 2007

  • In our testing here, we are able to reproduce the following error upon
    installing RB 10.05 Server and Enterprise Editions for Delphi 2006.

    'Can't load package c:\program
    files\borland\bds\RBuilder\lib\dcldad1010.bpl.
    in Install problems 10.5 Comment by nardmoseley January 2007

  • The code was added for RB 10.05.

    Try downloading and installing RB 10.05.



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    Nard Moseley
    Digital Metaphors
    www.digital-metaphors.com
    in HP Color Laser 2006 N - Floating Point Error Comment by nardmoseley January 2007

  • RB 10.05, our latest releases includes code to prevent the printer driver
    floating point errors from raising exceptions. .

    This issue only came to our intention in the last 6 months or so. I think
    there are a lot of prin…
    in HP Color Laser 2006 N - Floating Point Error Comment by nardmoseley January 2007

  • ReportBuilder 10.05, the latest release, automatically prevents this from
    happening by automatically generating a blank page for the case in which a
    report generates an odd number of pages while duplexing.


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    in Duplex Printing Comment by nardmoseley January 2007
  • A few things found during testing:

    - no error occurs when reports are saved and loaded to .rtm files.

    - no error occurs during run-time. Reports can be created, saved, loaded,
    etc.

    The only error we have is wit…
    in Error When using custom SQL Comment by nardmoseley February 2007

  • Can you create a simple, minimal example and email to
    support@digital-metaphors.com in zip format? We can then test it here using
    RB 9 and RB 10.


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    Nard Moseley
    Digital Metaphors
    www.digital-metaph…
    in \page in ppRichText Comment by nardmoseley January 2007