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Hi Joe,
The ppToMMThousandths class function will give you the width of the label
text in thousandths of a millimeter or microns. You can then convert to
inches by using the constant .00003937 inches per micron (or 25400 micron… -
Hi Cindy,
Use the DetailBandBeforePrint event to check the DBText fields. If they are
all empty, you can then set the Region's Visibility property to False, being
sure to set it back to True once the DetailBand has printed.
Hi Joe,
There is a third party add-on component available named RotatedText that
adds a label component to ReportBuilder that can be rotated. You can
download this component from our website in the friends | rcl section.
<…Hi Paul,
You will need to use a TppVariable to perform a calculation like this. Try
placing a TppVariable in the detail band with your datafield and one in the
location you would like to see the count. Then in the first variab…Hi Richard,
If these checkboxes are in the Detail Band, you should use the
DetailBand.OnBeforePrint event to check if the checkbox is checked or not
and set it's visibility to False if needed. If the checkboxes are in
anot…Hi Bradley,
Please send an example demonstrating this behavior in .zip format to
support@digital-metaphors.com and we'll find a solution for you as soon as
possible.
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Hi Bob,
When not using the ReportExplorer, the Report Designer will not prompt to
save automatically if the report has been modified. You are on the right
track to solve this problem by using the Report.Template.Modified proper…Hi Helmut,
Check out the following example on how to get the height of a memo and then
position it at the bottom of a page. You can use the same method to assign
the height of the footerband at runtime. You may also want to co…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 haveHi 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…