<div dir="ltr">If ever there was a reminder that I should crack on with knocking my "Rendition" printing library into releasable shape, this was it! :)<br><br>I never had in mind to develop it as a fully fledged "report engine" with layout designer etc, more of an advanced print engine, specifically for code driven reports. i.e. exactly the sort of thing you describe. It is basically a multi-layered framework to improve the "raw" printing capabilities in Delphi.<br>
<br>The base layer provides a better API for working with printer devices.<br><br>On top of that is a layer for handling page layouts and general output in a form that can be redirected for preview, file, or device output.<div>
<br></div><div>Then there is a specialised layer for handling simple text-based reports, particularly those with tabular content.<br><br>There is also a preview control that implements support for various multi-page preview layouts and some other rather fancy features which I'm pleased with and will keep hush-hush for now. ;)<br>
<br>If you're interested I can have a look and see how quickly I could get it into a beta-ble state (among other things it needs refreshing to reflect changes in the way I handle portable Unicode), but be aware that I am in the middle of moving house so won't be able to get on to this for a few days at least.</div>
<div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 15 May 2014 23:14, John Bird <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:johnkbird@paradise.net.nz" target="_blank">johnkbird@paradise.net.nz</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div style="FONT-SIZE:small;TEXT-DECORATION:none;FONT-FAMILY:"Calibri";FONT-WEIGHT:normal;COLOR:#000000;FONT-STYLE:normal;DISPLAY:inline">Anyone
know if there is any flavour of Rave reports in Delphi XE6? If not
which version did it disappear in?</div></div>
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<div style="FONT-SIZE:small;TEXT-DECORATION:none;FONT-FAMILY:"Calibri";FONT-WEIGHT:normal;COLOR:#000000;FONT-STYLE:normal;DISPLAY:inline">Have
some limited purely code reports that use Rave, which I guess I would have to
convert to Fast Reports etc.</div></div>
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<div style="FONT-SIZE:small;TEXT-DECORATION:none;FONT-FAMILY:"Calibri";FONT-WEIGHT:normal;COLOR:#000000;FONT-STYLE:normal;DISPLAY:inline">(I
have a module that prints contents of a form – so as long as there is a way of
generating a report purely in code it should be easy enough</div></div>
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<div style="FONT-SIZE:small;TEXT-DECORATION:none;FONT-FAMILY:"Calibri";FONT-WEIGHT:normal;COLOR:#000000;FONT-STYLE:normal;DISPLAY:inline">In
Rave these are the functions it uses:</div></div>
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<div>* Set
page widths and margins from current paper type</div></div>
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<div style="FONT-SIZE:small;TEXT-DECORATION:none;FONT-FAMILY:"Calibri";FONT-WEIGHT:normal;COLOR:#000000;FONT-STYLE:normal;DISPLAY:inline">*
does a mixture of SetTab commands</div></div>
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<div style="FONT-SIZE:small;TEXT-DECORATION:none;FONT-FAMILY:"Calibri";FONT-WEIGHT:normal;COLOR:#000000;FONT-STYLE:normal;DISPLAY:inline">*
then PrintTab commands</div></div>
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<div style="FONT-SIZE:small;TEXT-DECORATION:none;FONT-FAMILY:"Calibri";FONT-WEIGHT:normal;COLOR:#000000;FONT-STYLE:normal;DISPLAY:inline">*
draw lines on page using Moveto and LineTo,</div></div>
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<div style="FONT-SIZE:small;TEXT-DECORATION:none;FONT-FAMILY:"Calibri";FONT-WEIGHT:normal;COLOR:#000000;FONT-STYLE:normal;DISPLAY:inline">*
Some control over when to do a new page</div></div>
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<div style="FONT-SIZE:small;TEXT-DECORATION:none;FONT-FAMILY:"Calibri";FONT-WEIGHT:normal;COLOR:#000000;FONT-STYLE:normal;DISPLAY:inline">*
set printer output to preview or a printername).</div></div>
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<div style="FONT-SIZE:small;TEXT-DECORATION:none;FONT-FAMILY:"Calibri";FONT-WEIGHT:normal;COLOR:#000000;FONT-STYLE:normal;DISPLAY:inline">As
long as there is a way to do similar things in code for whatever exists in XE6 I
would be happy)</div></div>
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