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  • Hi Brett,

    This behavior was added as a "feature" because many of our customers
    requested the preview form be accessable from the Window's task bar rather
    than minimizing it to the bottom left corner of your screen (like RB 6). …
  • Hi,

    Yes, this is possible. Simply place a subreport component on a report, tab
    over to the subreport's design and define the number of columns you would
    like to have by either using the Report.Columns property or the Layout tab…
  • Please do not cross post. This question has been answered in the End-User
    newsgroup.

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  • Hi Martin,

    You can do this by manually adding TppDrawLine drawcommands to your report
    at runtime. Please see the following example on how to add horizontal lines
    to the bottom of the page. You will need to do something similar…
  • Hi Joel,

    How are you linking your datasets? If you are using query parameters, the
    query will be refreshed every time the record changes, slowign things down.
    You might want to try using datapipeline linking instead. See the a…
  • Hi Jay,

    You can set the Report.Columns property to the number of columns you would
    like to see in the detail band. If for instance you place a dbText
    component inside this column, it will by default fill the first column, then<…
  • Hi Svein,

    We have made numerous updates to this release with regards to images showing
    up as black squares. This version should fix most cases of this issue.

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  • Hi Gunter,

    Sorry, mouse wheel support is not currently available for Delphi 5.

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  • Hi Terry,

    This issue has been fixed in ReportBuilder 7.04 Build 2, dated 06/21/2004.
    Please download ReportBuilder again for the updated product. Thanks for
    your patience and feedback.

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  • Hi Daniel,

    The ppbiuif.dll is not a ReportBuilder file nor have we heard of this issue
    before. Perhaps this file belongs to a different third party application
    you are using.

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  • Hi Martin,

    The arrow key issue and slow mouse wheel scolling issue has been addressed
    in the latest build of ReportBuilder 7.04, dated 06/21/2004. Please
    re-download ReportBuilder 7.04 for the updated version. Thanks for your<…
  • Hi Neil,

    Sorry for the delay in this response. I was thinking about your situation a
    little further and remembered that you have access to the
    Device.OnReceivePage event so you may not need to create a new device.
    Using th…
  • Hi Neil,

    Sorry, maybe I'm misunderstanding the issue.

    Draw commands are created on the fly as the report is generated, as well as
    page dimensions, component spacing and component position. Once the report
    generation …
  • Hi Neil,

    It is possible to use a report object loop to access the report components
    in a subreport with recursion. Something like the following...

    procedure AssignFontToReport(aFont: TFont; aReport: TppCustomReport);
  • Hi,

    The difference between a page footer and a group footer is that the page
    footer will print on each page regardless. The group footer will only print
    at a group break which could be in the middle of a page or across numerous…
  • Hello,

    1. The group method I mentioned before will not work if your detail are
    spanning across multiple pages. There is no built in way in ReportBuilder
    to create a band that prints on every page and snaps to the bottom of the…
  • Hi,

    The page footer band is a fixed band which ReportBuilder allocates space for
    as the report is generated. It is not possible to move the position of this
    band. I am unsure how your report is designed but you could place a
  • Hello,

    ReportBuilder allocates space at the bottom of a page specifically for the
    page footer. This is why you are seeing the white space between the footer
    and the last detail line. If you would like the footer to appear just…
  • Hello,

    The following code seemed to work correctly for me. Why are you commenting
    out the Width property? Also, be sure the measurements are correct for your
    page size.

    lDrawLine := TppDrawLine.Create(nil);
  • Hi,

    If you would like to add objects to a report after Report.Print has been
    called, you will need to manually create the TppDrawCommand objects and add
    them to the report. See the following example on how to add lines below th…
  • Hello,

    Line Example...

    uses
    ppTypes;

    procedure TForm1.CreateLineAndPrint;
    var
    lLine: TppLine;
    begin

    lLine := TppLine.Create(nil);
    lLine.Band := ppReport1.DetailBand;
  • Hi Gianantonio,

    As a test, create a small example that just uses TQuery components rather
    than the TSDQuery components and see if you can recreate the issue. If so,
    please send the example in .zip format to support@digital-meta…
  • Hi Gianantonio,

    I am unable to recreate this behavior on my machine. Here are the steps I
    am taking...

    1. Place a TQuery, TDataSource, TppDBPipeline, and TppReport on a form and
    link them.

    2. Add a simpl…
  • Hi Martha,

    When a user loads a report, you could set a flag of some sort letting you
    know that they have in fact entered the preview window. Then using the
    method below, you can detect if they printed to the printer or not. If…
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  • Hi Jurgen,

    Thanks for your feedback. This issue has been addressed in the new build of
    ReportBuilder 7.04 available for immediate download. Please re-download
    ReportBuilder 7.04 (Build 2), dated 06/21/2004 for the updated vers…
  • Hi Peter,

    Thanks for your feedback. I updated my version of Delphi 6.02 with the RTL3
    files before testing and the mouse wheel seemed to work correctly (for my
    mouse). This appears to be a mouse driver issue that I will need t…
  • Hi,

    I just tested with your exact configuration (minus the mouse) and the mouse
    wheel seemed to work correctly at design and run time. Be sure you are
    clicking inside the preview window before trying to scroll. If you get a
  • Hello,

    Which edition of ReportBuilder do you have installed? In my testing with
    ReportBuilder Enterprise 7.04 Build 2, Delphi 6, on Windows XP and Windows
    2000, the mouse wheel worked flawlessly. I am using the default Microso…