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• Flynx

  May 2013 edited 2:45PM

  doncht wrote: »

  Looks like a tough one. Any updates on this yet? I would suggest to create a support ticket about this too. They may need to duplicate this issue first.

  
  I'm working on a solution. I will post it here, when I have solved the problem.
  
  My experiences with support tickets at fast-report are not really good. I have currently a ticket on a problem with RTF-Export running for weeks without any answer.
  
• Flynx

  May 2013 edited May 2013

  OK, here is my solution for the problem:
  You have to change the views text and then rerun the report.
  
  Solution 1:
  This solution gives the user the power to change the template of the report, after looking at the preview. It will be like editing a serial letter in MS Word.
  

  procedure TForm.EditReport(Report: TfrxReport; View: TfrxView;
    Button: TMouseButton; Shift: TShiftState; var Modified: Boolean);
  var
    frxComp: TfrxComponent;
    p: integer;
    stream: TStringStream;
    text: string;
  begin
  //1.
    if (View.ClassType = TfrxRichView) or (View.ClassType = TfrxMemoView) then
    begin
      text := '';
      Editor := TEditorForm.Create(self);
      Editor.WindowState := wsMaximized;
      Editor.RichEdit.PlainText := not (View.ClassType = TfrxRichView);
  
  //2.
      //Find the Object for edit and get the objects text in the variable text
      frxComp := Report.FindObject(View.Name);
      if frxComp.ClassType = TfrxRichView then
      begin
        stream := TStringStream.Create('');
        TfrxRichView(frxComp).RichEdit.Lines.SaveToStream(stream);
        text := stream.DataString;
        stream.Free;
      end
      else if View.ClassType = TfrxMemoView then
        text := TfrxMemoView(frxComp).Text;
  
  //3.
  If Editor.execute(text) then
      begin
        // change the original content of the View to the edited, rerun the report
        if frxComp.ClassType = TfrxRichView then
        begin
          stream := TStringStream.Create(text);
          TfrxRichView(frxComp).RichEdit.Lines.LoadFromStream(stream);
          stream.Free;
        end
        else if frxComp.ClassType = TfrxMemoView then
        begin
          TfrxMemoView(frxComp).Text := text;
        end;
        Report.ShowReport;
      end;
  
      Editor.Free;
    end;
  end;
  

  
  //1.
  In the first part I mostly initialize my editor. As you can see, I extended my approach, so you can edit RTF- and Memo-Views.
  
  //2.
  The OnDoubleClickObject- or the OnClickObject-Event of a TfrxReport gives you the clicked object as Sender: TfrxView. But this Sender is not the view in the template, but it is the view in the preview. If the view in the preview is broken over several pages, fast-report copies the view to each page and fill each of it with the content belonging to this page. So you can???t simply get the content of the sender, because you will get only the part of the content, which is written on the page, which has been clicked. We have to find the belonging view in the template and get his content.
  
  If you are working with RTF you can???t simply use the text-property of the field. It will give you the plaintext without the control characters. Using streams is, as far as I know, the only way to get the not interpreted text.
  
  //3.
  After editing the text, I put it back into the template and rerun the report.
  
  Solution 2:
  In the above version we edited the template of the report. Databasefields will be shown.
  You can also edit the prepared text, but it???s a little bit more complicated.
  

  procedure TForm.FRDB1DblClickObject(Sender: TfrxView;
    Button: TMouseButton; Shift: TShiftState; var Modified: Boolean);
  var
    text: string;
    stream: TStringStream;
    frxComp: TfrxComponent;
    RV: TfrxRichView;
    MV: TfrxMemoView;
    p: integer;
  begin
    if (Sender.ClassType = TfrxRichView)
    or (Sender.ClassType = TfrxMemoView) then
    begin
      Editor := TEditorForm.Create(self);
  
  //1.
      //read text from Preview
      text := '';
      stream := TStringStream.Create('');
      for p := 0 to FRDB1.PreviewPages.Count - 1 do
      begin
        frxComp := FindPreviewObject(FRDB1, p, Sender.Name);
        if frxComp <> NIL then
          if frxComp.ClassType = TfrxRichView then
          begin
            RV := TfrxRichView(frxComp);
            stream.Free;
            stream := TStringStream.Create('');
            RV.RichEdit.Lines.SaveToStream(stream);
  //2.
            text := ConcatRTF(text, stream.DataString);
          end
          else if frxComp.ClassType = TfrxMemoView then
          begin
            MV := TfrxMemoView(frxComp);
            text := text + MV.Text;
            Editor.RichEdit.PlainText := true;
          end;
      end;
  
  
      Editor.WindowState := wsMaximized;
      If Editor.execute(text) then
      begin
  //3.
        //reopen report and replace text
        stream.Free;
        stream := TStringStream.Create(text);
        FRDB1.LoadFromFile(FRDB1.FileName);
        if Sender.ClassType = TfrxRichView then
        begin
          RV := TfrxRichView(FRDB1.FindObject(Sender.Name));
          RV.RichEdit.Lines.LoadFromStream(stream);
        end
        else if Sender.ClassType = TfrxMemoView then
        begin
          MV := TfrxMemoView(FRDB1.FindObject(Sender.Name));
          MV.Text := text;
        end;
        FRDB1.ShowReport;
      end;
  
      Editor.Free;
      stream.Free;
    end;
  

  
  //1.
  This time we have to read the content from the preview. We can access the preview by frxReport.PreviewPages??¦ but there is a problem. The preview is separated in its pages. The pages are a container for the objects on the page. If a view is broken over several pages, there will be a copy of the view in each page. In my case the text runs over 3 pages. So there is a TfrxRichview with the name ???Rich1??? in page 1, one in page 2 and one in page 3. Each of the views carries part of the text. But we want all of it. So we have to iterate over the pages, find the view on each page and get the content. I wrote an extra procedure for this: FindPreviewObject
  

  function FindPreviewObject(Report: TfrxReport; PreviewPage: integer;
    ObjectName: string): TfrxComponent;
  
    function GetChildObjects(frxComponent: TfrxComponent): TArrayOfTfrxComponent;
    var
      i, j, lnResult, lnChilds: integer;
      Childs: TArrayOfTfrxComponent;
    begin
      SetLength(result, 0);
      if frxComponent <> NIL then
      begin
        SetLength(result, frxComponent.AllObjects.Count);
        for i := 0 to frxComponent.AllObjects.Count - 1 do
          result[i] := frxComponent.AllObjects[i];
        lnResult := length(result);
        for i := 0 to length(result) - 1 do
        begin
          Childs := GetChildObjects(result[i]);
          lnChilds := length(Childs);
          Setlength(result, lnResult + lnChilds);
          for j := 0 to lnChilds - 1 do
            result[lnResult + j] := Childs[j];
        end;
      end;
    end;
  
  var
    i: integer;
    Childs: TArrayOfTfrxComponent;
    str: string;
  begin
    result := NIL;
    if Report <> NIL then
    begin
      Childs := GetChildObjects(Report.PreviewPages.Page[PreviewPage]);
  
      str := '';
      for I := 0 to length(childs) - 1 do
        str := str + Childs[i].Name + #13#10;
      showMessage(str);
  
      for I := 0 to length(childs) - 1 do
        if Childs[i].Name = ObjectName then
        begin
          result := Childs[i];
          break;
        end;
    end;
  end;
  

  
  Many of the objects in the preview are container. So you have to search for childs in every object.
  
  //2.
  Now we have the view, but to edit the text, we have to join its parts. You can???t simply sum it together. RTF is a tag operated format. Every RTF-document starts with {/rtf.. and ends with }. If you just sum the parts together, you get something like this:
  
  {/rtf
  content content content
  }
  {/rtf
  content content content
  }
  {/rtf
  content content content
  }
  
  A RTF-editor will show only the first part, because for it there is a ???Document End???-Tag at the first }. So we have to delete these tags. This is the purpose concatRTF
  

  function ConcatRTF(String1, String2: string): string;
  var
    RTFTag1, RTFTag2, RTFBody1, RTFBody2: string;
  begin
    SliceRTF(String1, RTFTag1, RTFBody1);
    SliceRTF(String2, RTFTag2, RTFBody2);
    if RTFTag1 = '' then
      RTFTag1 := RTFTag2;
    result := RTFTag1 + RTFBody1 + RTFBody2 + '}';
  end;
  
  function SliceRTF(aRTFString: string; out RTFTag: string;
    out RTFBody: string): Boolean;
  var
    x, lnString, OpenBrackets: integer;
    found: Boolean;
  begin
    result := false;
    aRTFString := trim(aRTFString);
    if pos('{\rtf', aRTFString) = 1 then
    begin
      result := true;
      //find the end of the content
      found := false;
      OpenBrackets := 0;
      x := 2;
      lnString := Length(aRTFString);
      While (not found) and (x <= lnString) do
      begin
        inc(x);
        if aRTFString[x] = '{' then inc(OpenBrackets)
        else if aRTFString[x] = '}' then
        begin
          dec(OpenBrackets);
          if OpenBrackets = 0 then
            found := true;
        end;
      end;
      //copy body
      RTFTag := copy(aRTFString, 1, x);
      RTFBody := copy(aRTFString, x+1, Length(aRTFString) - x - 1);
    end;
  end;
  

  
  //3.
  Finally I reload the template, change the content of the template view with the edited content and rerun the report.
  
  But there is a problem with this solution. It works fine, when your report has just one Dataset. It fails, when there is more than one. When the preview contains more than one repetitions of the template, you will find many views with the same name on the preview pages, but not all of them belong to another. It???s complicated to find the break between the repetitions. And even worse, I haven???t found a way to know, on which repetition the user clicked. The content will be equal at diverse points. The name of the view is always the same. There is no clue, on which page the user clicked. If you use the upper solution, you???ll get repeated text.