nardmoseley
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1. ReportBuilder's internal/automatic help invokation currently works for
WinHelp and Help2, but not HtmlHelp. (I will add HtmlHelp to the requested
features list).
2. The WinHelp example you tried with RBuilder.hlp shou… -
I recommend using RAP to code the event-handlers.
- What is RAP?
RB Enterprise includes a run-time Pascal environment called RAP. RAP enables
Developers and and end-users to code without Delphi. RA… -
D7 VCL is old and has many bugs that have since been fixed. VCL window
layering in D7 for modal dialogs is fundamentally designed wrong. We added
some code to manage it better. Our solution works as long as you don't free
the… -
Have not heard of "window has no scroll bars" error. This is not an error
that anyone else has reported or that we can reproduce in our testing.
If you want to create a simple example that we can run here, you can send in
As a test try setting Report.ModalCancelDialog to False and then run the
report.
As another test you can try commenting out the code in TppForm.CreateParams.
We added some code to help manage the window layering of Modal …
Delphi 2009 includes support for PNG.
If you are using Delphi 2009, add ppPNG to the 'uses' clause of your
application to include RB PNG support.
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Nard Moseley
Digital Metaphors
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A couple of approaches I can think of...
1. If you have subreports set to PrintBehavior of pbSection, then you can
set Subreport.NewPrintJob to true and print the subreports as a separate
print job. Configure the Subrepo…For future reference please always include environment info: RepotBuilder
version, Delphi version, Windows version, etc.
I would try uninstalling the printer driver. Download the latest from
manufacturer web site. Reboot the m…In addition to Nico's suggestions,
1. Try downloading the latest printer driver from the manufacturers web
site. Unisntall the existing driver and reboot. Then install the new driver.
Checkt the driver config options for any d…
You might try adding RBuilder\Source and Delphi\Lib\Debug to you library
patch and tracing the source code for RB 10.x versus RB 11.x and the
underlying VCL code as well. I do not think the relevant RB source code has
chan…>I am opening a report recorded in the database (binary format). To save
Are you using BDE to connect to Sybase?
www.digital-metaphors.com/rbWiki/Data_Access/Troubleshooting/BLOB_Errors_in_Old_BDE
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Yes, you can confgure the relevant properties via code.
The PrintToFile dialog manipulates the Band.Save, Component.Save, and
Component.SaveLength properties. The Component.SaveLength property is used
when exportin…
There is now patch availble for RB 11.04 for D2009 that corrects an issue we
found while researching this question.
Registered users of RB 11.04 for D2009 can email
support@digital-metaphors.com and request the patch.
Yes, you need to recompile the WebTier.
The server, client, and webtier need to be compiled using the same version
of RB.
Whenever you update RB versions you need to rebuild all of your applications
using the …
Please update to RB 11.04, it includes a fix for this issue.
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Nard Moseley
Digital Metaphors
www.digital-metaphors.com
During initialization, the report engine tries open and initializes every
datapipeline associated with the report - including data-aware controls,
child reports, etc.
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Nard Moseley
Digital Metaphors1. One option is to use the ADO data access components included with Delphi.
2. The other option is to research the cause of the issue.
a. first step is to create a simple test app that contains a Report and
Desigenr and a…There is a DADE plug-in for ODBCExpress listed on this page
http://www.digital-metaphors.com/download/dade_plugins.html
--This is not a known issue. Please create a simple example project and email
to support@digital-metaphors.com in zip format. Use standard Delphi
components and RB. We need to be able to run the example here using 10.09
and then run …I recommend looking at the Calculations tutorial in the Developers Guide. It
contains step by step instructions for using the TppVariable component -
which is the component you need to be using.
This rbWiki article provides an…
RB 11.04 restores support for this behavior.
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Nard Moseley
Digital Metaphors
www.digital-metaphors.com
RB 11 includes
1. new TppPrinter.SendEscape method that can be used to send escape commands
directly to the printer.
2. new TppReport.OnPrinterDeviceStateChange event that fires during
printing. An aStateChang…
There is now a patch available for RB 11.04 that fixes this issue.
Registered RB 11.04 can email support@digital-metaphors.com and request the
patch.
I think the bug is an isolated case. The example provided contains a r…
We do not have an offering at this time. This is always an option to pursue
in the future.
Thanks for your interest.
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Nard Moseley
Digital Metaphors
www.digital-metaphors.com
There are no known issues with RB 11.
RB 11 includes improvements to suppress and work around a wider range of
printer driver errors. For example, some later model printer drivers contain
floating point overflow errors. …
AutoSearch Calendar Date Picker for dates (windows, web)
This feature is listed on the What's New for RB 11 page, under the section
'Report Parameters and AutoSearch'in WEB calendar component in RB11.04 Comment by nardmoseley May 2009
We are not aware of any issues with Web Calendar for RB 11.04. There were
some issues with RB 11.03 that we fixed. Perhaps you have a corrupt
installation or have not rebuilt the WebTier using RB 11.04.
I just tried a si…
One alternative is Gnostice eDocEngine http://gnostice.com/
About a month ago Waler indicated he had been tied up with family medical
issues, but would be posting somethi…
You cannot reload from the .dfm, but you can easily save/reload the original
report. Add some code, to the Form.OnCreate event or prior to calling
Designer.ShowModal, to save the report definition to a memory stream.
Try downloading the printer driver and installing it on your machine and
running some tests.
If you determine the exact version of RB being used, then can try a test
using that version and try another test using th…