Non modal report preview? can it be done?
My Delphi 2009 application requires uses to fill in a form on screen summarising some information about their company. To assist them in this I have button that shows a FR4 cross tab report with a matrix of data from various departments within the company.
However, while the report preview is displayed, the user cannot access the delphi form to write anything. It's as if the report preview is modal and the user is required to close that first (remembering what they just read!) before they can make the ordinary delphi form active again and edit some text.
Is the a way to have the report preview shown and also allow another delphi form to accept user input?
Howard
However, while the report preview is displayed, the user cannot access the delphi form to write anything. It's as if the report preview is modal and the user is required to close that first (remembering what they just read!) before they can make the ordinary delphi form active again and edit some text.
Is the a way to have the report preview shown and also allow another delphi form to accept user input?
Howard
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The modal behaviour was indeeed because the preview was opening as modal.
The way I stopped this behaviour was highly technical and obviously only understood by a small, elite group of programmers...
To do it I went to the preview properties of the report and changed the 'modal' property from true to... er... false!
<hangs head in shame>
Howard