FastReport 2.xx VCL — FastReport Forum

Setting margins at runtime

Fulcrum — Tue, 24 Aug 2004 17:08:21 +0000

Hi,

I have played with the labels demo file and I am getting the hang of everything.

I can adjust the number of columns and everything is working there.

My problem is setting the top margin. In the report designer I switched it to accept MM instead of pixels for all the measurements. At runtime in the PageHeaderBand OBP event I am setting the height of the band to equal a value passed in. That only sort of works.

It happily sets the top margin, but it seems to set it in pixels, not MM.

Is there a function to use to convert a MM value passed in as a variable into a pixel value?

The code I am currently using is this:

PageHeader1.Height := MyTopMargin;

If I pass in 50 it leaves about 20mm, if I pass in 100 it leaves about 40mm. That is what makes me think that it is ignoring my chosen value type and reverting to pixels.

Any help on this would be appreciated.

Hiding duplicate subtotals

DRPhillips — Fri, 07 Apr 2023 14:05:34 +0000

In my reports, I have a groupheader hierarchy of four layers with corresponding groupfooters. Generally, this works very well for my users. However, some of my users like using those headers as descriptive headers. The problem this creates is it adds duplicate subtotals of the same amount. I need to hide those matching subtotals. I have added coding below of what I have so far. Unfortunately, with my current coding, if the statement is true in one part of the report, the respective groupfooter is removed everywhere in the report. I was hoping someone could help me understand what I need coding-wise to have it show only the higher on the hierarchy groupfooter when two subtotals (memos) in different groupfooters match. Thanks for any help!

Memo15 is subtotal in another groupfooter, and memo38 is the subtotal in Groupfooter5. Memo31 is a descriptive memo for the subtotal.

Additionally, coding is not my specialty; I have almost no training in Delphi coding.

procedure GroupFooter5OnBeforePrint(Sender: TfrxComponent);

begin

if VarToStr() = VarToStr() then

begin

GroupFooter5.Visible := False;

end

else

begin

if VarToStr() = '' then

begin

GroupFooter5.Visible := False;

Memo31.Visible := False;

end

else

begin

GroupFooter5.Visible := True;

Memo31.Visible := True;

end;

Report Summary problem

svilen333 — Thu, 09 Dec 2004 13:01:08 +0000

Hi everybody,

I am using FreeReports 2.32. My report have these bands:

ReportTitle

MasterHeader1
MasterData1, [Field1]
MasterFooter1, [SumField1]

MasterHeader2
MasterData2, [Field2]
MasterFooter2, [SumField2]

ReportSummary, [SummaryField1]

MasterData1, [Field1] means that I have MasterData band with one field named Field1.
So, I have correct calculated sum in every footer i.e. SumField1 gives me the right sum of all Field1. I need my SummaryField1 to calculate [SumField1] - [SumField2]. The strange thing is that when I place this expression in the SummaryField1 this calculates 0. After some experiments I have noticed that when I put in the expression of the SummaryField1 one of the SumFields, this gives me the sum of these two fields, so thats why I have zero result from the subtraction.
I will apreciate if someone can give me an idea how to fix this.
Thanks in advice.

Large column width in DBCrossView

sthruska — Tue, 04 Oct 2022 12:52:58 +0000

I have two builds and both have the same problem. The width of the last column does not correspond to reality. It's too big.

I can't do anything about it.

PDF popmenu doesn't always appear

Mindert — Thu, 18 Aug 2022 07:29:15 +0000

I'm using Delphi XE11 and FR2022.2.7

Starting in Windows 10 a Delphi app, show a Fastreport and choose PDF, then most of the time a popup appears where and on which name to save the pdf.

But sometimes this PopUp doesn't appear. Then I have to close and restart the application and try again.

Does anyone know what can be the cause?

Why printing blank last page

petesouthwest — Wed, 29 Sep 2004 16:41:01 +0000

Hi

I have a basic report with a page header and master data bands. When I print preview my report there is always an extra blank page at the end. Any ideas why?

Thanks
Pete

first two rows of fastreport repeated

Ana Rodrigues — Thu, 31 Mar 2022 12:44:23 +0000

Hi,

I am using a fastReport with PageHeader and MasterData, connected to TfrxDBDataset, through a FDMemTable.

The query has 2 records as a result, but on the report, it outputs repeated the first record twice.

What's happening here? How can i prevent this to happen?

I send an example by file.

Thanks in advance

Ana

Data Band that must span 2 to 5 pages

MikeInTaos — Sun, 10 Jan 2021 07:26:46 +0000

I am using the latest FR FMX2 with Delphi 10.3.3, and I think that a band that spans more than one output page would solve the problem I have with data from one record will never fit on one page. This situation occurs even though none of the fields require stretching due to variable length text such as memo data.

I have tried using additional Pages in the designer, but these appear at the end of the report, after all data for the first page. What I need is a Page 1 that has data from some fields, and a Page 2 that has data from different fields in the same record. This report will have only one Master and one Detail and one SubDetail record, and the Master and Detail are each just one row, but the data from one SubDetail needs to span pages.

Can I just give the SubDetail databand a height of something like 40 or 400 as needed to accommodate all my fields, and still get output that is correctly laid out and with PageHeaders and PageFooters as I do when I only have 1 page in the designer? Or should I try sub-reports? Any other suggested approach?

Changing database server (hostname) at runtime

tomward — Thu, 22 Apr 2004 19:36:45 +0000

I am trying to change the hostname of my database server (stored in the params property of the DBXDatabase component in the report) at runtime. Can I do this from within delphi? What I need to do is run one report on potentially multiple different sql servers.

rtMultiple

binary — Tue, 18 Nov 2003 06:12:42 +0000

Hi, help please

I'm having a problem printing pages as 1,2,3..1,2,3...

My report looks as follows :

Page 1:
Page Header
Group Header
MasterData
Page Footer

Page 2:
Page Header (with text boxes with if statements)

Page 2 does not need data from the dataset on page one, however I do set a variable [language] in the group header on page 1. I use this variable for if statements on page two.

limit Number of rows on a report

ettiend — Mon, 29 Nov 2004 12:03:21 +0000

hi

I would like to know if there is a way to limit rows printed on a report before is goes to the next page
For example if my dataset returns 10 rows. I would like to print 5 rows on page 1 and 5 rows on page 2.
My report is set to A4.

Thanks
Ettienne Du Plessis
Senior analyst
First National Battery
ettiend@battery.co.za

Fastreport 2.5 - IBO

K.-D. — Mon, 12 Nov 2018 10:11:33 +0000

Hello,
I have been running Fastreport 2.5 with IBO 4.8.6 under Delphi 6 Professional for several years. It works fine with the native components.

Now I have IBO 5.9.9 installed. I can not install the FR6.dpk package from Fastreport 2.5. The package looks like under:

requires
VCL,
VCLSMP,
DesignIDE
{$ IFDEF IBO}
{IFDEF IBO4}
, IBO40CRT_D6,
IBO40FRT_D6,
IBO40TRT_D6,
IBO40VRT_D6,
IBO40XRT_D6
{$ ELSE}
, IBO_D6
{$ ENDIF}
.......

A package with the name IBO_D6.dpk does not exist.

For IBO 5.9.9, the packages have the same names. It stands only instead of "40" "5" there.

The question now is, is there a new package FR6.dpk for IBO 5? Or is it easy to replace the names?

greeting
K.-D.

Change Hour Formats and Sum Hours

Brio — Tue, 20 Mar 2018 13:45:07 +0000

Hi guys i need some help..

I am using an Anviz CrossChex aplication to generate some report.

When i generate the report all the data who are in hh:mm:ss it converts to decimal and calculate some values in the report...

The thing is that i need to have all the data which are shown in the yellow rectangle of the attached images it is shown in the format hh:mm:ss and the totals are shown too in that format.

How can i do it??

Or if i attached the report can someone convert me the file plz???

Thanks!

P.D: Sorry for my english but im an Spanish native user.

Error "Class Datasets not found" when I try load from a stram

Guto Zambon — Tue, 16 Jan 2018 13:03:23 +0000

Hi, I'm save the report with all the data printing with the code .SaveToStream, but when I try to import with Load from stream de report show the message: "Project noxmobWindowsLocalFenix.exe raised exception class EClassNotFound with message 'Class Datasets not found'."

I'm using Delphi Tokyo 10.2 and Fast 2.0 FMX, my application is a FireMonkey multi Device application.

Help with data row index

ahmed abd — Tue, 30 May 2017 06:08:15 +0000

hi

i am a user using fast report 2.4 to arrange some report but when i use a columns for example users_info i place it in the master data and the report contains two users and i want to display each user name all i get is the name of the first user name twice .

is there a way i can tell it the index of the row so i can get both user names .

thanks in advance .

*.frf edit

siema — Wed, 11 May 2005 07:11:50 +0000

Hi!

I wonder if there's a way to adit an *.frf file?

Thanks for your help in advance...

rgds

Memo - OnAfterData

adelmus — Thu, 27 Oct 2016 12:19:32 +0000

Hello.
Is there any method in Memo object like OnAfterData (of course in 2.5)?

Thanks for any answer

[SCRIPT] Printing in two different printer

Michael Goh — Tue, 14 Jun 2016 04:52:05 +0000

Dear All,

I have been using a program that uses fastreport as the report generator. We are supplied also with the designer, so we can create our own reports
Thus, I can not change within code that build the program.

My Problem is I have a report that may have 2 pages of different content and must printed in two different printers due to different paper size.

Can we do the customization within the scripts, may be in "onbeforeprint" ?

Thanks folks

Regards
Michael

OLE Object

JohnLeBarbare — Fri, 13 May 2016 06:54:40 +0000

Hello everybody,

I'm new on this forum.
I'm french and I'm fastreport's user since 3 years in my company to realise reports from our production software.

Today, I need help to realise a report with excel Ole objet.

I would like to insert in excel ole object (in specific cell), the value of a specific table field.
Somebody can help me?

Thank a lot.

Delphi's Variables

S.Barco — Tue, 18 Nov 2003 16:32:41 +0000

In the Delphi projects I use Delphi's Global Variables, ??it's posible to pass/go these variables to FR, (in a Report Title Band u other Band type)?.

In a lengthy previous topic, Samuray reply:

Nothing problem.
frVariables := anyvalue;
after use variable with name 'ANYVARNAME' in report.

But, I'm try with this method and d'ont work.

- frVariables it's a object of all frReport 's vars?

Sorry for my English, I try to explain better: I want to print (in Report Title Band and Page Header Band) some Global Delphi vars than I use in a Delphi form like: CompanyName, UserName, ComputerName and others ??How can I do it?

Thanks Again

Force new page

Rory O'Driscoll — Sun, 31 Jan 2016 09:14:42 +0000

How do I ensure that a page 2 always prints to a new page and is not dependant on the amount of informaiton on page 1?

Optional fields in Address Blocks

Explorer — Tue, 20 Feb 2007 22:51:13 +0000

sorry, there is no way to delete a post and I wanted to change the title

see Suppress blank fields in name/address block post.

How to change PaperSource "First page" in code

Craig NZ — Wed, 22 Apr 2015 02:10:06 +0000

I am using XE6 C++ with FastReports 4.15.10

I am putting together a general option for my users to enable them to change the Paper Source (feed location) of the selected printer from default or Tray1 to MP Tray. I know that you can change this in the designer by going to the File->Page Settings. But how do I change that inside my code prior to printing.

The reason behind this is most of the reports are going to be default or tray 1, but I have some reports that are for printing sheets of labels, and they will be/ or could be single sheet feed by the user. So in my configuration area, I want to be able to allow the user to pre-define where the labels are going to be feed from.

I have tried, prior to frxReport->PrepareReport(true), in going in to the frxReport->PrintOptions->Printer = default. And changing this to MP Tray, but the printer still feeds from Tray1. If I set the Firstpage and Otherpage to MF Tray, and do a preview, the printer feeds from the location needed.

And yes I know, if I have the PrintOptions->ShowDialog checked, one can go in to the printer settings and then change the paper source, but I am working on the KISS for the users, as not all of them are going to be computer savvy

eclise and fastreport

gurjer48 — Thu, 05 Mar 2015 07:28:23 +0000

hi ,
1.Is it possible to open fastreport developed in fastreport 2015.1.3 in ECLIPSE like in visual studio using dll and webreport component.
2.How to open .frx file in fast report viewer is it possible.

please reply
Regards
Sudarshan

Alternative to Pragnaan Export Filters

noyasoftnix — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 09:30:36 +0000

Hi

I use the pragnaan export filter Excel and have many problems with. They know if some alternative exists to export Excel without OLE.

Thank

OMR-Code possible?

Supertrooper — Sun, 08 Feb 2004 21:49:28 +0000

Hallo,

is there a way to print OMR-Code on the (left) side of the page? OMR-Code is a lot of lines (like barcode) for form processing. Can I produce a rectangle with a group of lines near on the margin of the page?

Designer Splitters

zsleo — Wed, 27 Apr 2005 05:57:02 +0000

This is not a major issue but it is annoying.

D7 FR 3.12 Enterprise

In design mode viewer the splitters on the left and right side are not allowing me to alter the width of the Report/Page tree on the left or the Data/Variables/Funtions viewer on the right hand side.

Is this a bug or is there somewhere I can change a setting?

TIA

Zane

Problems Changing Chart Line Colours (Colors)

Corbett — Mon, 08 Dec 2014 00:46:39 +0000

I'm creating a report in XE7 FMX FR 2.2.1 with a chart using data from a TfrxUserDataSet. If I attempt to assign the color I get no colour. My OnGetValue procedure is as follows.

procedure TForm2.frxReport1GetValue(const VarName: string; var Value: Variant);
begin
  if (VarName = 'XValue') then
    Value := MyData[frxUserDataSet1.RecNo].XValue;
  if (VarName = 'YValue') then
    Value := MyData[frxUserDataSet1.RecNo].YValue;
  if (VarName = 'Col') then
    Value :=  Random($FFFFFF);
end;

Using the same code with a VCL report works as expected. Am I doing something wrong or is this a bug?

Thanks

Steve

pictures load not every time

Nicky — Tue, 07 Oct 2014 09:37:43 +0000

Hi,

I use fast report 2.44. (I do not know if CLX or VCL). My form is an delivery note print out and I load with the fast report a picture from a database table into the delivery note (fast report form). My problem is that the picture do not appears every time on the report. Sometimes the picture appears on the report and sometimes not (sporadically). When the picture was not loaded then I can???t see it on the preview windows and after print out the printer have printed the form with a blank/black logo. I assume that the preview windows load the form faster as the fast report can load the picture from the database table.

Could you please give me an tip how I can fix this problem? Thank you /smile.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":)" border="0" alt="smile.gif" />" alt=">" />

Unicode Support in Fast Report 2.4

Bathiya Priyadarshana — Mon, 23 Jun 2014 11:01:08 +0000

Hi Everyone,

We are using Fast Report 2.4 with a legacy Delphi 6 application.

And we are in need of printing some Unicode characters (to be specific, the currency symbol of "Baht") in one of the reports.

Can someone please share a reference on how to specify Unicode characters in Fast Report 2.4?

Thanks in advance..!!