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  • Hi Philippe,

    You are only able to export TppDBText, TppLabels, and TppMemos to a Report
    Emulation Text File in ReportBuilder. The exporting of RichText to a text
    file is not supported.

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  • Hi William,

    You could use a JIT Pipeline to either control your entire dataset with
    added blank records on the end, or you could add a JIT Pipeline into your
    already created report and use it to print 8 extra grid rows in additi…
  • Hi William,

    I am having trouble recreating this behavior on my machine. If possible,
    please send a small example demonstrating the problem to
    support@digital-metaphors.com.

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  • Hi William,

    How are you separating the pages being displayed in either protrait or
    landscape mode? Try using a Section Style Subreport to separate the pages
    and the positioning of the PageNo Description should print in the corr…
  • Hi Cameron,

    The "tips" directory is generally used to provide users of the newsgroups a
    way to download examples that we create specifically for them. Most of the
    examples located in Tips are customized for a specific user or a…
  • Hi Alex,

    Check out the End-User demos located in the \RBuilder\Demos\3. EndUser/...
    directory and the \4.EndUser Databases\... directory. These examples show
    how to create the propert database fields and how to save a report te…
  • Hello,

    How are you connecting your Access Database to the report? Are you able to
    make a successful connection using your ADO or BDE connection? For an
    example of how to connect ReportBuilder to Access, check out the end-user<…
  • Hi Luk,

    If you are still making a CustomAutoSearchDialog descendant then you need to
    implement these methods. Check out the ppASDlg.pas file for an example of
    which methods need to be implemented.

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  • Hi Steve,

    Currently there is no component to produce circular text in ReportBuilder.
    You might try downloading and testing the TWPaintBox utility to perhaps draw
    the text directly to the report canvas. Another option would be t…
  • Hi Ivan,

    It is possible to customize the display format of each cell in two ways.
    First you can change the display format manually by right clicking over the
    cell value and selecting the "Display Format" option in the pop-up men…
  • Hi Douglas,

    Rather than changing the ReportBuilder source, try using the
    Report.Printer.Canvas to find the text width and then manually set the
    DBText width, adding a few pixels, according to the calculated text width.
    Some…
  • Hi John,

    Try using a JITPipeline to get the date data from the form to the report.
    You could either pull the values directly out of the pipeline and use them
    as a TppVariable or you could hook a DBText to the pipeline and have
  • Hi Brad,

    1. ReportBuilder is thouroughly tested for memory and resource leaks by us
    here at Digital Metaphors and by our users. There are no know memory leaks
    with regard to the CachePages property.

    2. Depending on…
  • Hi Brian,

    In my testing, I am unable to recreate the behavior you describe. I created
    a simple project that sets the PaperName and BinName inside a button click
    event just before the report prints. Then while the report is ru…
  • Hi Stuart,

    Check out the RAP tutorials for a good example of how to put a disclaimer on
    the back of each page using the group header rather than the summary. This
    tutorial can be found in the \RBuilder\Demos\0. RAP\Tutorials\..…
  • Hi Peter,

    ReportBuilder 7 also supports LeftToRight column traversal and this may give
    you the effect you are looking for. You can set the column traversal
    direction in code by doing something like the following...

    u…
  • Hi Peter,

    Try placing three Child Subreports side by side instead of using columns.
    Then add the data to each subreport as you need. This way you will have
    complete control over which data goes in each column.

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    Article: Printing to Dot Matrix Printers
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    Dot matrix printers are natively line and character based. Most dot matrix
    print…
  • Hi Mark,

    Be sure that the SkipWhenNoRecords property of your Master and Detail data
    pipelines are set to False. This property can be accessed in code or at
    Delphi design time in the Object Inspector when the DataPipeline object…
  • Hi Kei,

    Sorry, there is no "undo" support in ReportBuilder.

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  • Hi Alex,

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    Article: ReportBuilder Image Support
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    ReportBuilder natively supports…
  • Hi Alex,

    ReportBuilder uses the same internal routines to read a bitmap than TImage
    does in Delphi. It may be possible to get the same image quality out of a
    JPEG image with compression turned off. Other than that a Window Met…
  • Hi Alex,

    If this is occuring on one machine and not another, this could be a printer
    driver issue. Are you able to load the image from the database to a normal
    Delphi application without the use of ReportBuilder? If so, check …
  • Hello,

    Sorry, but there is no built-in way to merge PDF files into a report. You
    could possibly find an application that convertes PDF files to RTF and then
    add the RTF files to a TppRichText component in a report as a work aro…
  • Hello,

    I am a bit unclear about what you are trying to accomplish. Do you want to
    merge a number of existing reports together and print them as a PDF file, or
    are you trying to merge actual PDF files into a report?

    -…
  • Hi,

    Sorry, but viewing PDF files inside a report is not supported by
    ReportBuilder. You may be able to find a tool that converts PDF files to
    images or .rtf files to and then load them to a TppImage or TppRichText
    componen…
  • Hi Alex,

    You will want to use the Report.GetAutoSearchDescriptionLines method to
    retrieve the autosearch criteria descriptions. This will put the
    descriptions in a TStrings object in order to display them in a report memo.
  • Hi,

    If you are using the LoadParamsFromIniFile method to define a differen .ini
    file to use, be sure the LoadParamsOnConnect property is set to False. When
    LoadParamsOnConnect is true, it loads the connection configuration from…
  • Hi,

    Please see the ReadMe.doc file located in the \RBuilder\Languages\...
    directory for information on how to deploy your application with the proper
    language installed.

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  • Hi Vincent,

    If you are loading a template to the report object, you could be loosing
    your event handlers. Please see the article below on how to troubleshoot
    lost event handlers.

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