Copy text from Preview

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• sange

  June 2006 edited 7:51AM

  yah,
  
  
  i have problem like u rene, i want to select some text but i can't copy part of text.
  until now i prepared & export to text, load text to my own preview (like notepad).
  
  may be anybody could help
  
  thanks
  
• Quietman

  June 2006 edited 7:51AM

  Don't know of a way to cut a section from your report but you could always filter your data set and re-run your report.
  
  Wayne
• sange

  June 2006 edited 7:51AM

  if you try find button to search text,
  you will be find text highlight if found.
  could we get the text to clipboard?
  
• rene Prague, Czech Republic, Europe

  June 2006 edited 7:51AM

  sange wrote:

  if you try find button to search text,
  you will be find text highlight if found.
  could we get the text to clipboard?

  Even this highlighted text couldn't be copied into clipboard. The only one solution is to enable users to edit whole page and after that designer is fired with current page. But this is to complicated for standard user. BFU is able to press some special button (like in PDF viewers) for text selection. I think such a issue should not be too difficult to solve because FR is using very good hierarchy of objects. But I suppose that at this moment it is not possible.
• Quietman

  June 2006 edited 7:51AM

  For small sections there is the Print Screen button on your keyboard. I frequently do this export into Paint to cut only what I want then paste that directly into a Word document. If you own PDF you probably could save the document in a PDF format and then cut the file from there.
  
  Wayne
• rene Prague, Czech Republic, Europe

  June 2006 edited 7:51AM

  Quietman wrote:

  For small sections there is the Print Screen button on your keyboard.  I frequently do this export into Paint to cut only what I want then paste that directly into a Word document.  If you own PDF you probably could save the document in a PDF format and then cut the file from there.
  
  Wayne

  Wayne, I think you didn't catch it. I was asking about copying text portions from preview. Yes I can make some screenshot and copy bitmap or I can make TXT / PDF export and copy text out of there (or as I mention yesterday I can enable editing and switch prepared page into design and copy text from there), BUT all mentioned solutions have one in common - THEY ARE TOTALLY USER UNFRIENDLY. And because I think FR engine knows which object contains text (e.g. it could be searched and highlighted by Find method) I hope it is not very difficult feature and it will be included is some wishlist (and maybe in next version FR will surprise me).
  Rene
• -=Den=-

  June 2006 edited 7:51AM

  You can do this in frxReport.OnClickObject.
  
  This code copy unicode string from report to clipboard when you clicked on Object:
  

  procedure TForm1.frxReport1ClickObject(Sender: TfrxView;
    Button: TMouseButton; Shift: TShiftState; var Modified: Boolean);
  var
  hMem:Cardinal;
  pMem:Pointer;
  ByteCount:Integer;
  begin
  if Sender is TfrxMemoView then
  begin
   OpenClipboard(Handle);
   ByteCount := sizeof(WCHAR)*(Length(TfrxMemoView(Sender).Text)-1);
   hMem := GlobalAlloc(GMEM_MOVEABLE,ByteCount);
   pMem := GlobalLock(hMem);
   CopyMemory(pMem,Pointer(TfrxMemoView(Sender).Text),ByteCount);
   SetClipboardData(CF_UNICODETEXT,hMem );
   CloseClipboard();
   GlobalUnlock(hMem);
  end;
  end;
  
• Quietman

  June 2006 edited 7:51AM

  > Wayne, I think you didn't catch it. I was asking about copying text portions from
  > preview.
  
  I did understand what you meant however I didn't want to suggest you looking at fixing a bug in Fast Reports.
  
  It looks like when you do a Preview you are looking at data being painted on a canvas. Not exactly what you are looking for but if you press the Edit Report feature you'll see the data painted on the designer. If you try to copy a set of those controls you'll get a duplicate name exception. If you find a way to stop that exception from being generated you can probably copy that data.
  
  Problem with that is you have to modify the Fast Reports source which means you need to merge your code unless you create an inherited object and a new makefile. Not something most of us have times to do so I didn't suggest it.
  
  Wayne
• irw10062

  June 2006 edited 7:51AM

  wrote:

  You can do this in frxReport.OnClickObject.
  
  This code copy unicode string from report to clipboard when you clicked on Object:
  

  procedure TForm1.frxReport1ClickObject(Sender: TfrxView;
    Button: TMouseButton; Shift: TShiftState; var Modified: Boolean);
  var
  hMem:Cardinal;
  pMem:Pointer;
  ByteCount:Integer;
  begin
  if Sender is TfrxMemoView then
  begin
   OpenClipboard(Handle);
   ByteCount := sizeof(WCHAR)*(Length(TfrxMemoView(Sender).Text)-1);
   hMem := GlobalAlloc(GMEM_MOVEABLE,ByteCount);
   pMem := GlobalLock(hMem);
   CopyMemory(pMem,Pointer(TfrxMemoView(Sender).Text),ByteCount);
   SetClipboardData(CF_UNICODETEXT,hMem );
   CloseClipboard();
   GlobalUnlock(hMem);
  end;
  end;
  

  thanks, this code is work and usefull to me
• rene Prague, Czech Republic, Europe

  July 2006 edited 7:51AM

  Quietman wrote:

  I did understand what you meant however I didn't want to suggest you looking at fixing a bug in Fast Reports. 

  Maybe I was not clear so: I did not think there is a bug in FR. My post were about "feature request" or "is it possible to do something". I change some FR code directly only if I am sure there is a bug or mistake (and I am posting them to FR team as suggestion of bug). I am not going to change the code of designer or preview, I use my own descendant classes - and if will be possible to made some changes at this level I will be satisfied. I will try mentioned code above and said if it helps.
  
  Anyway thanks for your posts (and sorry for my ),
  Ren?©
• rene Prague, Czech Republic, Europe

  July 2006 edited 7:51AM

  Partial result: Looks like handling OnClickObject works good. At the moment I am able to change preview to SelectMode, let user to select/unselect each memo object and copy whole text from this objects (well I am also able to select/unselect all text objects by one action, but this is not the gist). Unfortunatelly frxPreview even frxReport does not have all mouse events (OnMouseDown, OnMouseUp, OnStartDrag ...) and I am not able to (easily) made some user friendly interface for text selection. I will try to implement it some other way and if I succes I will write it in here...