How to print a stringgrid (incl. formating)?

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• diasw Germany

  January 2005 edited 6:30PM

  Hi,
  I don't think that FR can do this. I guess you need a Stringgrid which has a print-component. I think DevExpress with its XtraGrid has such a component.
  
  hth
  Sascha
• Mikael

  January 2005 edited January 2005

  Hmm... Thanks for the reply.
  
  Perhaps FR is not able to print a stringgrid with formating automatically, but I can not believe that is in not possbile to do it somehow.
  
  If we take a look at the PrintStringGrid demo, I wonder if it is possible
  to modify the Cross variable, so that I can change properties of
  a cell - and thereby make the print look like a stringgrid
  

  procedure TForm1.frxReport1BeforePrint(c: TfrxReportComponent);
  var
   ? Cross: TfrxCrossView;
   ? i, j: Integer;
  begin
   ? if c is TfrxMemoView then
   ? begin
   ?  ?  if c.Name = 'meReportTitle' then
   ?  ?  begin
   ?  ?  ?  ? TfrxMemoView(c).Memo.Text:= edTitel.text;
   ?  ?  end;
   ? end;
  
   ? if c is TfrxCrossView then
   ? begin
   ?  ? Cross := TfrxCrossView(c);
   ?  ? for i := 1 to StringGrid1.RowCount do
   ?  ? begin
   ?  ?  ? for j := 1 to StringGrid1.ColCount do
   ?  ?  ? begin
   ?  ?  ?  ? Cross.AddValue([i], [j], [StringGrid1.Cells[i - 1, j - 1]]);
   ?  ?  ?  ? // Can Cross be used to set the width, color and such for a cell?
   ?  ?  ? end;
   ?  ? end;
   ? end;
  end;
  

  
  I am a complete newbie to FR, so any help is most welcome.
  
  Regards,
  Mikael
• AlexTZ

  January 2005 edited 6:30PM

  You can use vertical bands if you want to print more customizable grid. See example in the demos\main, "Old-style cross-tab" and "Calendar" reports.
• Mikael

  January 2005 edited 6:30PM

  Thanks. I will try that.
  
  Regards,
  Mikael
• Azrael

  January 2005 edited 6:30PM

  There's yet another way to do what you want.
  It is very resource-hungry, but also the best-looking one.
  You can paint your string grid to a custom bitmap (see PaintTo method), then either paste it to the database or use one of those in-memory TDataSet inheritors (for example, RxMemoryData).
  
• Mikael

  February 2005 edited 6:30PM

  I need to print very large grids, so the bitmap approach is properly not the right solution.
  
  Here is what I plan to do:
  
  1. Have an empty fastreport component on my form.
  2. Design the report by code. Something like this:
  

  var
    page: TfrxReportPage;
    band: TfrxBand;
    memo: TfrxMemoView;
    cross: TfrxCrossView;
    masterBand: TfrxMasterData;
    i, x: Integer;
  begin
    // Make sure that report is clean.
    report.Clear;
  
    // Set dataset range properties
    dataset.RangeEnd:= reCount;
    dataset.RangeEndCount:= grid.RowCount;
  
    // Add dataset to report
    report.DataSets.Add(dataset);
  
    // Add a page
    page:= TfrxReportPage.Create(report);
    page.CreateUniqueName;
    page.SetDefaults;
    page.Orientation:= poLandscape;
  
    // Add a report title band
    band:= TfrxReportTitle.Create(page);
    band.CreateUniqueName;
    band.Top:= 0;
    band.Height:= mm2pixel(8);
  
    // Add object to the report title band
    memo:= TfrxMemoView.Create(band);
    memo.CreateUniqueName;
    memo.Text:= title;
    memo.Height:= mm2pixel(8);
    memo.Align := baWidth;
  
    // Add masterdata band
    masterBand:= TfrxMasterData.Create(page);
    masterBand.CreateUniqueName;
    masterBand.DataSet:= dataset;
    masterBand.Top:= band.Top+band.Height+1;
    masterBand.Height:= grid.DefaultRowHeight;
  
    // Add objects on master data
    x:= 0;
    for i:= 0 to grid.ColCount-1 do
    begin
      memo:= TfrxMemoView.Create(masterBand);
      memo.CreateUniqueName;
      // Connect to data
      memo.DataSet:= dataset;
      memo.DataField:= 'ColNo'+IntToStr(i);
      memo.SetBounds(x, 0, grid.ColWidths[i], grid.DefaultRowHeight);
      x:= x+grid.ColWidths[i];
      memo.Frame.Typ:= [ftLeft, ftRight, ftTop, ftBottom];
      memo.GapX:= 3;
      memo.GapY:= 2;
    end;
  

  
  
  3. Use report???s OnBeforePrint event to populate the report with data. Something like this:
  

  procedure TForm1.beforePrint(Sender: TfrxReportComponent);
  var
    col, row: Integer;
  begin
    if (Sender is TfrxMemoView) and (Copy(TfrxMemoView(Sender).DataField, 1, 5) = 'ColNo') then
    begin
      row:= frxUserDataSet5.RecNo;
      col:= StrToInt(Copy(TfrxMemoView(Sender).DataField, 6, length(TfrxMemoView(Sender).DataField)));
      case mlProfGrid1.Cells[col, row].TextAlignment of
        taLeftJustify: TfrxMemoView(Sender).HAlign:= haLeft;
        taRightJustify: TfrxMemoView(Sender).HAlign:= haRight;
        taCenter: TfrxMemoView(Sender).HAlign:= haCenter;
      end;
      TfrxMemoView(Sender).Value:= mlProfGrid1.Cells[col, row].Value;
    end;