Re: Building a custom report

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Sergey Tkachenko

Posted: 06/20/2003 20:25:30

Here you can find a code (based on demo in

Demos\Delphi\Assorted\Printing\ReportHelper\) how to make a print preview

with RVReportHelper:

http://www.trichview.com/support/files/preview.zip

(idea: print preview is created for some fake (empty) document;

RVReportHelper's document is drawn in TRVPrint.OnPagePrepaint)

FastReport is not supported yet (when I tried to make wrapper for it, it did

not have programming API flexible enough; may be FR was improved since

that). Currently, the only supported third-party report is ReportBuilder.

> We use FastReport for building our reports but RV does not have a wrapper

> for this, in fastreport I can use RXRichEdit but it does not show any

lines

> or jpeg pictures added by RV. So I was wondering if it is possible to

build

> a custom report using RV, I had a look at RVReportHelper but there is no

> preview facility with it.

>

> So I was thinking is it possible to copy the contents of a RV document to

a

> TCustomRichView object created in code or a non visible RichViewEdit, I

then

> add my additional content for the report using the Add functions provided

by

> RV and then use RVPrint and RVPrintPreview with this new TCustomRichView

> object to print the report.

>

> Is this the best way to do this or is there a better solution?

>

> Regards,

>

> Etienne.

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