Fastreport terrible slow!!!

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• AlexTZ

  December 2004 edited 7:50PM

  Picture objects (especially jpegs) slows down the designer. There is no solution for this except not using big pictures.
• Juergen

  December 2004 edited 7:50PM

  The same results will appear if you use small pictures or if you use more than 50 objects on a form. Thats not really nice. The old fastreport was much more faster.
• dschuch Dresden,Germany

  December 2004 edited 7:50PM

  hm I don't think so.
  
  I have converted some very big reports from fr25->fr3. Ok, I NEVER use pictures in the Designer, whether i load them at runtime with Picture.LoadFromFile or I store them in a BLOB field in the DB and so during design time no picture slows down the designer.
  
  I noticed also that fr3 designer becomes slower (more than fr25 Designer) if the report becomes large but not in such a dramatic way. And my bigger Reports own >> than 100 objects with Subreports, many pages and manymanymany bands and a very big script. It needs a short reaction time on my maschine too, but i wouldn't it's dramatic.
  
  Try it with Picture.LoadFromFile
  
  PS : I use P4M 1.9GHZ Notebook
  
  Daniel
• Juergen

  December 2004 edited 7:50PM

  Hi dschuch,
  
  can you post an example how to load a picture during runtime. Maybe this will help, but it would not be a good solution for the end user.
  
  Thanks.
  
  Juergen
• dschuch Dresden,Germany

  December 2004 edited 7:50PM

  Hi Juergen,
  
  its very simple :
  
  If your Picture-Object is named "Picture" then
  
  Picture.LoadFromFile('FileName');
  
  I have declared Variables for the picture files.
  
  in Delphi :
  
  PathApp:=ExtractFilePath(ParamStr(0));
  frxReport1.Variables:=''''+Path_App+'MyPicture.jpg'+'''';
  
  In FR:
  
  Picture.LoadFromFile(<PicturePath>);
  
  so it's not a problem for the end-user.
  
  Hope that helps,
  
  Daniel