FastReport support

jasiek

Hi

Recently I had xls export problems (OLE error) and I searched both forum and the newsgroup. Most of questions about the same problem were without answer. I still don't know if it is possible to create xls file without having Excel installed.

Two months ago I asked on this forum about translating reports using dxgettext. Nobody answered. I didn't get even "Noone use dxgettext" answer. I found myself, that FR3 is not compatible with dxgettext because of TWideStrings class.

Today I try to find on forum how to change in code paper bin. I'm not the first person who try to do it. I couldn't find answer to this question.

Guys, FR3 is a good piece of work. Documentation covers only a part of it (where is documentation for export modules?). Forum is almost useless. How can we solve our problems?

Bert Binnenmarsch

Hello Jasiek,

wrote:

Two months ago I asked on this forum about translating reports using dxgettext. Nobody answered. I didn't get even "Noone use dxgettext" answer. I found myself, that FR3 is not compatible with dxgettext because of TWideStrings class.

You can switch languages with the following command:
frxResources.LoadFromFile('dutch.frc');

Check out the RES folder of FastReport.

Bert

-=Den=-

jasiek wrote:

Today I try to find on forum how to change in code paper bin. I'm not the first person who try to do it. I couldn't find answer to this question.

FR version 3.21.22 has OnPrintPAge event.
for example:

procedure TForm1.frxReport1PrintPage(Page: TfrxReportPage;
  CopyNo: Integer);
begin
Page.Bin := 1;
end;

jasiek

Wow, I didn't expect such answers.
Bert,
I didn't try to change engine language, but report itself. Finally I added some limited support for TWideStrings class to dxgettext. Unfortunately, my patch can't be applied to dxgettext, because FR3 uses own TWideStrings class, which is not compatible with TWideStrings from BCB/Delphi.

Den,
Do you have some other printing hints? How did you find Page.Bin property? Is it possible for example - to change printing quality?

-=Den=-

jasiek wrote:

Wow, I didn't expect such answers.
Bert,
I didn't try to change engine language, but report itself. Finally I added some limited support for TWideStrings class to dxgettext. Unfortunately, my patch can't be applied to dxgettext, because FR3 uses own TWideStrings class, which is not compatible with TWideStrings from BCB/Delphi.

Den,
Do you have some other printing hints? How did you find Page.Bin property? Is it possible for example - to change printing quality?

jasiek wrote:

Do you have some other printing hints?

For example:

Page.PaperSize
Page.PaperWidth
Page.PaperHeight
Page.Orientation
Page.Duplex

Do you want change language at run-time or packages language?

jasiek

wrote:

Do you want change language at run-time or packages language?

I'm not sure yet, which one will be more suitable. Now I change language run-time using TranslateComponent() function from dxgettext package. It works pretty nice - it's possible to retranslate strings in application code (cpp and pas files), forms (dfm) and fr3 reports (dfm).

-=Den=-

But why you didn't use standard FR functions(frxResources.LoadFromFile('dutch.frc') ?
FR supports 31 languages.

-=Den=-

wrote:

It works pretty nice - it's possible to retranslate strings in application code (cpp and pas files), forms (dfm) and fr3 reports (dfm).

Yes, use recompile.exe utility.