I like that solution "à la Die Hard". Not for the report thought...
As a matter of interest, could you please develop a little bit more the
process you go throught?
Where do you place your Canvas in RB? (in a window, a container control...)
How do you size the canvas. For instance if you want the output to fit
in a A4 paper sheet, what sort of calculation you have to perform to
size your canvas accordingly?
etc...
Sorry about hese trivail questions, but I have not touched the subject
of printing matter out of a RB app yet.
TIA,
Youri
Tim Hare wrote:
Draw everything with RB.
I wrote a set of classes to handle the details. The actual code to produce
a given report is pretty simple, but we get very nice quality output. And
the output scales perfectly to fit the page within whatever paper size and
margins they select. So the preview matches the output perfectly: logo,
boxes and shading, text styles, color, everything.
It's not a solution I would recommend to the casual developer, but I find
that for more than just a quick and dirty report, I want maximum flexibility
and complete control over the output.
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Hi,
As a matter of interest (for a quite Newbie), what technic(s) are the
most popular among RB developers to print datas out of RB in
Database Apps?
For instance :
1 - For Printing Invoices, Delivery notes etc…
Do you create windows with Container Control that your print on demand?
Do you draw all the form using Graphics, Canvas etc…?
Do you use file template, like for instance a .rtf file with a set of
fields (ie <Name>) that you replace with RB and rely on Word, OpenOffice
etc… to output?
2 - Here comes the difficult one : Reports with sub-totals etc…
Do you rely on export-import sequences using Excel?
Do you draw everything with RB?
???
I must admit, that IMHO, the biggest weakness of RB for developping DB
apps is the printing of reports (not to forget also the "listcontrol").
Best regards,
Youri
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