Weird behavior on Data Tab

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• Polomint Australia

  March 2019 edited March 2019

  brodzins wrote: »

  all the data objects on the data tab "snap" to the upper left hand corner once the report is previewed. So, when you have multiple data objects, they all get piled on top of each other.

  G'day Rick,
  
  If I have understood this correctly, it sounds like an issue with the Align property of the Object(s).
  
  Can you tell us what value is set? I am looking at a report created with FR v6.3.2 and the Align properties of the Objects recently added are all baNone.
  
  Now I have a vague recollection that the Editor remembers the last setting of hAlign property (so if you set one Object to right-align the displayed value, subsequently added Objects do it too). Maybe(!) the Editor is also remembering the setting of Align.
  
  Could be worth setting up a minimal Test Project...
  
  Cheers, Paul
  
  === EDIT ===
  
  P.S. Actually there is a quick way to check this! If you saved the report as an FR3 file, you can open it with a Text Editor and look through it for the Align property values. If you save the reports into the Form, then you can only do this if the Forms are saved as Text (not Binary).
• brodzins

  March 2019 edited 5:32PM

  Polomint wrote: »

  Polomint wrote: »

  all the data objects on the data tab "snap" to the upper left hand corner once the report is previewed. So, when you have multiple data objects, they all get piled on top of each other.

  G'day Rick,
  
  If I have understood this correctly, it sounds like an issue with the Align property of the Object(s).
  
  Can you tell us what value is set? I am looking at a report created with FR v6.3.2 and the Align properties of the Objects recently added are all baNone.
  
  Now I have a vague recollection that the Editor remembers the last setting of hAlign property (so if you set one Object to right-align the displayed value, subsequently added Objects do it too). Maybe(!) the Editor is also remembering the setting of Align.
  
  Could be worth setting up a minimal Test Project...
  
  Cheers, Paul
  
  === EDIT ===
  
  P.S. Actually there is a quick way to check this! If you saved the report as an FR3 file, you can open it with a Text Editor and look through it for the Align property values. If you save the reports into the Form, then you can only do this if the Forms are saved as Text (not Binary).

  
  That was the first think I looked for (align and position values). There are none! I only noticed, yesterday, that v6.3 was available. Been using 6.2.16 since early Feb, but have been bogged down in non-FR parts of the current project that past few weeks (like getting data INTO the database, versus reporting it out).
  
  These are FireDac objects - not sure if the properties are simply missing from them, or if this was a bug introduced in the latter v6.2 releases. Will check out most recent v6.3 today.
  
• brodzins

  March 2019 edited 5:32PM

  Just installed v6.3.2, and am getting the same behavior (this is with Rio v10.3.1; 64 bit)
  
  Comparing to an app compiled with v6.2.15, I see the TfrxFDQuery components have a few new properties:
  Active
  Cached Updates
  Macro Create
  Macro Expand
  Macros
  Read Only
  
  
  Those are all set to the default settings in the new app using v6.3.2 reports. (What are Macros - how can one use them?)
  
  Neither the older, nor the newer reports have position or alignment properties for the components. I checked with ADO components, as well, and they don't have them, either. This is just something really weird.
  
  I am also still trying to figure out why, since installing Rio, I am now compiling all the FR unit DCUs to my ...\<project>\Win64\Debug (or \Release) folders when the DCUs have already been compiled in the FastReport... \LibD26 and \LibD26x64 folders, which are in the Delphi Language paths.
  
  Rick
  
• Chris C.

  March 2019 edited 5:32PM

  FYI I had this same issue, but ONLY with the FDQuery objects. Database and Stored procedures did stay put.
  
  I posted a ticket and Paul Gursky had me comment out a line in frxFDComponents and now all of my FDquery objects once again behave.
  
  
• brodzins

  March 2019 edited 5:32PM

  Chris C. wrote: »

  FYI I had this same issue, but ONLY with the FDQuery objects. Database and Stored procedures did stay put.
  
  I posted a ticket and Paul Gursky had me comment out a line in frxFDComponents and now all of my FDquery objects once again behave.

  
  OK, yes, they were all FDQuery objects (didn't even think about trying others). Which line?
• Chris C.

  March 2019 edited 5:32PM

  Find and comment out

  frComponentStyle := frComponentStyle + [csHandlesNestedProperties];
  

  in the frxFDComponents.pas