Report Preview Issue

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• afusco

  April 2010 edited 9:21AM

  Bridget wrote: »

  Hi,
  
  I have a Delphi program that calls two separate Fast Reports. When I have the reports in preview mode, the program stops at the preview of the first one, and not until I close that preview window, does the program continue and run the second report.
  
  Basically I don't want it to work like that....I want the program to run all the way through leaving two report windows.
  
  I have set the following settings on the TfrxReport":
  PreviewOptions.MDIChild = False;
  PreviewOptions.Modal = False;
  
  
  Doesn't anyone know how to make this work the way I want it to?
  
  Thank You!

  
  Try
  
  procedure ShowReport(RptName: String);
  Var
  Rpt: TfrxReport;
  begin
  Rpt := TfrxReport.Create(Nil);
  Rpt.PreviewOptions.Maximized := False;
  Rpt.PreviewOptions.Modal := False;
  Rpt.LoadFromFile(RptName);
  Rpt.PrepareReport();
  Rpt.ShowPreparedReport();
  end;
  
  
  Call for each report. Modify as needed.
  
  You can also load both reports into the same preview window and have report 1 = page 1 and report 2 = page 2. As a quick example:
  
  procedure ShowReport(RptName1: String; RptName2: String);
  Var
  Rpt: TfrxReport;
  begin
  Rpt := TfrxReport.Create(Nil); //or use the frxReport control
  Rpt.PreviewOptions.Maximized := False;
  Rpt.PreviewOptions.Modal := False;
  Rpt.LoadFromFile(RptName1);
  Rpt.PrepareReport(false);
  Rpt.LoadFromFile(RptName2);
  Rpt.PrepareReport(false);
  Rpt.ShowPreparedReport();
  end;
  
  
• Bridget

  April 2010 edited 9:21AM

  Thank you so much for the input! However, the first option didn't quite work. The program did run all the way through, but when it was done there were no preview windows.
  
  Also, the second option wouldn't work in my case because I have all the printing/previewing functionality in a separate function.
  
  Any more ideas would be greatly appreciated! Thank you!
  
  
  
• afusco

  April 2010 edited 9:21AM

  Bridget wrote: »

  Thank you so much for the input! However, the first option didn't quite work. The program did run all the way through, but when it was done there were no preview windows.
  
  Also, the second option wouldn't work in my case because I have all the printing/previewing functionality in a separate function.
  
  Any more ideas would be greatly appreciated! Thank you!

  
  Bridget,
  
  The first one should work. I just made a new project, placed a button on the form and pasted the code into the click event on the button:
  
  procedure TForm8.Button1Click(Sender: TObject);
  Var
  Rpt: TfrxReport;
  begin
  Rpt := TfrxReport.Create(Nil);
  Rpt.PreviewOptions.Maximized := False;
  Rpt.PreviewOptions.Modal := False;
  Rpt.LoadFromFile('test.fr3');
  Rpt.PrepareReport();
  Rpt.ShowPreparedReport();
  
  end;
  
  It works. I'm running Delphi 2010, with FastReports 4.9.52. What version of Fastreports & Delphi are you using? Are you sure you are calling ShowPreparedReport?