On Mon, 1 Jan 2024, Pique7 via fpc-pascal wrote:
Hello everyone, I have already asked this and related questions in the Lazarus Forum. I want to improve FPReport in order to use it for my project - if possible. Some features are missing for this, e.g. automatic splitting of text across two or more pages. As far as I can judge, the current development status of FPReport does not really allow me to extend it without modifying the original classes.
Why do you think so ?
What approach do you suggest? Would this be feasible/reasonable at all? I ask this because I am new to Lazarus and FPC. I come from Delphi 2007 ...
If you ask me, it's perfectly doable without any changes. There is a demo that shows how to print a text by splitting it in lines, and simply printing a band per line. That will have the same effect as what you seem to need. Basically, it means using a TStringList as a data source for a (sub)band instead of using it as the text of a single memo. What you may need to do is to split the text "correctly" over the lines of the TStringList, but that should be easily doable. All you need is a function to calculate the length of the text. I think this is perfectly doable without any changes to the original code. Michael. _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org https://lists.freepascal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
