Printing BLOBs / RichView

waeberd

Hi there,

I'm evaluating FastReport and really like the "open-minded" architecture of this module!

I've got some small questions:

Printing BLOB-Fields:
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When printing a BLOB field, it's required to prepare the blob-data depending on the
type of the content.

We use for example a thirdparty RichText module (called RichView btw) and store
the content into a BLOB-File.

I'd like to print this in a fast reports field.
How can I do that? Best approach? :-)

Thanks a lot & keep it up guys, great work!

Daniel

AlexTZ

FR3.0 does not support TRichView. However, you can print it as an image. To do this, place empty "Picture" object in the report. In the TfrxReport.OnBeforePrint do the following:

if View.Name = 'Picture1' then
begin
// load the blob and assign it to the TRichView
// draw it on any bmp surface
// assign the bmp to the Picture1
TfrxPictureView(View).Picture.Assign(your_bmp)
end;

waeberd

AlexTZ wrote:

However, you can print it as an image.

sounds good, I'll check it out!

Thanks a lot!