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ReportBuilder 18.0 is now available

Digital Metaphors Corporation announces the release of ReportBuilder 18.0!


ReportBuilder 18.0 includes VCL support for Delphi 10.1 Berlin, Delphi
10 Seattle, Delphi XE8, XE7, XE6, XE5, XE4, XE3, XE2, XE, Delphi 2007,
and Delphi 7.


Overview: http://www.digital-metaphors.com/rbwiki/General/What's_New/RB_18

New Feature List: http://www.digital-metaphors.com/PDF/NewFeatures.pdf


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Version 18 - 12/09/2016
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User Interface
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- new Default theme uses Delphi VCL styles
- leverage Delphi's Windows 10 styles
- new High DPI Monitor support
- UI scales to any screen resolution
- new GMap Marker Dialog
- add GMap markers visually from the designer
- new Preview popup menu
- print, zoom, search, etc. from the new menu

International
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- new Deploy language modules to custom location
- TppResourceManager.SetModulePath method

Email
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- new Gmail REST webmail plugin
- ppRESTGmail.pas
- new Outlook365 REST webmail plugin
- ppRESTOutlook365.pas
- new EmailSettings.OAuth2 object property
- required for REST webmail OAuth2 authorization
- new EmailSettings.Port property
- new EmailSettings.Signature property
- supports signature files and custom signatures
- EmailSettings.Recipients list now supports delimited lists
- Outlook plug-in support for html and rtf email client preview
- ppSmtpOutlook.pas

Output Devices
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- Preview, load/save window placement to ini storage
- Preview, enhanced text scaling accuracy
- new XLSSettings.ExportFormattedStrings boolean property
- new PDFSettings.ForceASCIIFonts property
- PDF, RichText export now supports Unicode with subset fonts
- FileDevice, enhanced file merge to support empty reports
- new Viewer.ExportToFile method

Engine
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- Outline optimization, when disabled do not create nodes

DataPipeline
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- new OnGetFieldValue event to enable value customization
- new DataPipeline.Cancel method to cancel edit mode

RCL
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- new Designer.ShowComponents options for Crosstab, Checkbox, DBCheckbox
- new Checkbox, 3 state option: AllowGrayed, CheckboxState properties
- new Checkbox, TextAlignment property
- new Checkbox, ReprintOnOverflow property
- new Image, HyperLink property
- BarCode, AutoSize + right-aligned = grow to left
- new 2DBarcode BarcodeUnits property
- adds Report unit measurement options
- new 2DBarcode DataMatrixSettings.Dimensions property for manual
width and height
- new 2dBarcode DataMatrixSettings.EncodeType Manual ASCII option
- allows manually encoded barcodes such as GS1
- new RichText, Paragraph.LineSpacing property
- new RichText, Paragraph.NumberingStyle property
- new RTF Editor, Linespaceing toolbutton palete (like Wordpad)
- new RTF Editor, NumberingStyle toolbutton palete (like Wordpad)
- new Parameter.AutoSearchField property for run-time access
- new Image, hyperlink support
- Image, support Bitmap.TransparentColor
- new Report.Template, OnConvert event for loading old reports
- Report.Template, uses try..except to cancel DataPipeline edit mode
- new CrossTab FullGridLines property
- GMap, enhanced internet connection checking
- new, GMap.AutoCenter property
- automatically centers and zooms around 2 or more markers
- new, GMap.Visible property

DADE
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- new Plug-in support to enable security to be added
- new TdaDataSet.ValidateSQLText method
override to add code to prevent Insert, Delete,..
- new SQLBuilder, SearchCriteria.AddExpression method
- AddExpression(Expression, Operator, Value)

ReportExplorer
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- Uses try..except to cancel DataPipeline edit mode

RAP
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- new RTTI, Report.PageStyle property
- new RTTI, Report.DesignerLayers property
- new RTTI, CustomReport.FindUserObject method
- new RTTI, Chart.SeriesCount and Chart.Series.Count properties
- new RAP functions, PadLeft and PadRight
- new RAP function, StringOfChar
- new RAP functions, DaysBetween, WeeksBetween, MonthsBetween,
YearsBetween


*features may vary by ReportBuilder Edition and Delphi version
*RB 18 includes support for twelve Delphi versions:
D10.1 Berlin, D10 Seattle, XE8, XE7, XE6, XE5, XE4, XE3, XE2, XE,
D2007, D7

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