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The BandsPerRecord approach will only work in the TopToBottom detail band
traversal configuration. It won't work when it is set to LeftToRight. Is
this the problem? Instead of using the label captions to store your integer
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Place the text in the PageStyle band. The PageStyle band prints behind all
other bands in the report. You can resize this band to the height of the
page.
Cheers,
Jim Bennett
Digital MetaphorsYou shouldn't get any messages, because it should be converted for you
automatically. Which version of Delphi are you moving from and to? The
DataPipelineName property is new in Version 6.
What behavior are you seeing with Ab…I'm sending you the latest patch.
Cheers,
Jim Bennett
Digital Metaphors
Example 7 in RBuilder\Demos\AutoSearch is this exact case. The autosearch
field values are set, but no dialog is ever displayed....
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Tom Ollar
Digital Metaphors Corporation
Use the PageStyle band. It prints behind all other bands.
Cheers,
Jim Bennett
Digital Metaphors
Which version of RB are you using? Download the latest version if you
aren't running RB 6.02. If this is reproducable in 6.02, please send a
simple demo project to support@digital-metaphors.com
Cheers,
Jim Be…You can create a new driver report, which contains only the requested
reports. Save each of the subreports to file, then load the report
definitions into the subreports...
You can download an example from:
http:/www.d…Thanks for these problems and suggestions. We will research them and get
back to you...
Tom Ollar
Digital Metaphors Corporation
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I would suggest calling TppPlainText.WordWrap (located in the
ppPlainText.pas unit)
Reduce the font size until this routine the CharPos = Length(Text), then
you'll know it fit.
You can pass Report.Pri…The scope is setup in RAP so that this it may seem like it isn't possible,
because RAP was implemented such that is won't have any naming conflicts
beteen the ppVariable1 in one subreport from the ppVariable1 in another
subreport or i…If you don't have any groups in the report, you may not see a difference.
It is recommended to use the OnTraversal timing. We may take
OnDataPipelineTraversal out in order to reduce confusion on this, and I
don't think it is ever adva…OnTraversal should fire when the report engine moves to the next record
forwards in the dataset. A traversal is defined as the first movement to a
valid record position. Subsequent movements to the same record position
(which are us…For Delphi 5, RB 6.02 supports Teechart that ships with Delphi 5, Teechart
4.x, and Teechart 5.01. Our current policy is to support the latest version
of TeeChart available. Out of the box we aren't supporting Teechart 5.00
with RB6…We don't have any example reports published on our website. Most of our
examples show techniques to achieve a result. We have a few examples which
are custom coded examples which you'll see us refer to from time to time in
our 'secr…Are your errors at Delphi design time or when reports are loaded at runtime?
I have the update #1 installed into D6. I ran a selection of some of our QA
reports, loaded some reports at Delphi design time and also created some new
If you create a crosstab in the report, remember to disconnect the report
from the same datapipeline as the crosstab's datapipeline. The crosstab has
its own data traversal engine. The entire crosstab will generate inside the
generat…TExtradevices is the way to go.
Cheers,
Jim Bennett
Digital Metaphors
Also, TExtradevices supports generating a report to an Excel format.
www.waler.com
Cheers,
Jim Bennett
Digital Metaphors
You can print the report to a delimited text file and inport the text file
to Excel. Go to PrintTOFile setup from the main menu and select which text
fields should be saved to the text file. Set AllowPrintToFile to true on the
report…There is a demo in your installed directory
..\RBuilder\Demos\EndUser\AutoSearch\5.Build Description Autosearch Settings
Cheers,
Jim Bennett
Digital Metaphors
Use the Report.AutoSearchFields property.
When ShowAutoSearchDialog is True, the AutoSearchFields are used to
configure the AutoSearchDialog and to store the results of the search
criteria entered into this dialog. In ReportBuil…If you would like to set the Tag, then use the Report.OnPreviewFormCreate
event. Sounds like when you are setting the tag, the preview form is nil,
hence your AV.
Cheers,
Jim Bennett
Digital Metaphors
What is your email address? I can't get through to the one we have for you
to send you the patch.
Cheers,
Jim Bennett
Digital Metaphors
We have a 5.56 patch that fixes a problem where the paper height and width
get set to zero. The problem stemmed from a units change in the designer.
You would need to load and edit your reports in the runtime designer
component. I'l…In the Report.BeforePrint event, check the Report.DeviceType property to see
where the report output is going.
Cheers,
Jim Bennett
Digital Metaphors
We don't have anything to offer at this time.
Cheers,
Jim Bennett
Digital Metaphors
There are no limits to the number of components you can have in a band or
subreport. What is happening in your report's event handlers? Start
removing code and calculations unti the problem goes away. I didn't see
anything in our 4…You can do this in RAP. However, you will need to create a RAP pass through
function to Delphi. You need to provide the current page object (since it
isn't visible in RAP) to assign the draw command to the page as in the
Delphi code…Create a draw command in the Report.OnEndPage event. Here's a demo of
creating a draw command to accomplish this.
http://www.digital-metaphors.com/tips…