Designer

• Zoom support for Design workspace
• New rendering architecture for scaling workspace, components
• Undo support for add/remove design layers
• Added Design Layer ‘delete with components’ menu item
• ReportTree, added component popup menu support
• Inspector, TColor prop editor, double-click to display color dialog
• Added Delphi design-time support for calling FormDesigner.UniqueName
• Always show Save As dialog when saving a subreport template

RCL

• TableGrid component
• 2dBarCode
  • QRCode barcode support
  • DataMatrix barcode support
  • New ‘settings’ properties for each barcode type:  QrCodeSettings, DataMatrixSettings, PDF417Settings, MaxiCodeSettings

• VerticalAlignment property for text
• DesignLayer.Visible property to show/hide components
• RichText.RemoveEmptyLines boolean property (address squeeze)
• Memo.RemoveEmptyLInes boolean property(address squeeze)
• Memo, improved tab/tabstop support
• Report.OpenFile boolean to open a file after export
• PrintDialog, Open File checkbox
• PageStyle, UsePageSpace boolean
• Band, Border property

 

Preview

• Page thumbnails (like Adobe Acrobat)
• Page Borders
• Page separation control
• Scrolling Text Search
• Print Dialog, added Open file checkbox
• Viewer, added Viewer.OnEndGenerate event

Output Devices

• New rendering architecture Designer/Graphics/Screen/Printer
• Printer, PrinterSetup.Duplex option for dpDefault (use Windows default)
• TextFile, options for semi-colon, space, custom delimiters
• XLSReport.IgnorePageHeight property, when True prevent blank rows from being added to bottom of page
• XLS HyperLink support (via Component.HyperLink settings)
• XLSData, IncludeSingleHeader/Footer booleans, to limit export to single header/footer for entire file
• TextFile, modified ReportSaveNo to Int64 to suppor larger reports
• Textfile, published more props to provide RAP code access
• ReportTextFile, use PrinterCanvas for more accurate calculations
• Printer, added Eject commend to ppPCL.pas
• PDF, Transparent Images
• PDF, Graphics Canvas (removed the need for a TppPrinter)
• PDF, 128 bit encryption
• PDF, Enhanced embedded font style support (Unicode)
• PDF, Added AddFileID property to allow user to omit the File ID.
• Email, Receipt feature added to Indy plugin
• Email, Synapse plugin now supports BCC recipients.
• FileDevice, Report.OpenFile, universal file open property
• FileDevice: Added WaterMark feature for all file devices
• FileDevice: Added file path variable support for ($CurrentDir)

Engine

• Report generation, apply Report.PrinterSetup changes to Page.PrinterSetup

DADE

• SQL, RowLimit – supported by several database engines, syntax varies
• SQL, RowLimitEnabled, returns True if databasetype supports RowLimit
• Copy/Paste queries
• QueryDesigner, RowLimit edit box added to Tables page
• QueryDesigner, display DataPipeline name in the form caption
• SQLBuilder, RowLimit, RowLimitEnabled properties
• SQLText, enhanced parameterized linking, add condition to existing SQL Where

EndUser

• DesignLayer menu option to load/save to file when ReportExplorer database used

RAP

• CodeEditor: save/restore program caret pos when toggle from/to Calc workspace
• TraSystemFunction, added Report & CodeModule properties for function access
• Ability to call ShowMessage from a preview thread
• Added StringReplace, StringReplaceAll functions
• TeeChart: RTTI support for 16 new chart properties: Legend  (Alignment, Font, FontSeriesColor, Shadow, Symbol, TextStyle, Title), Title, LeftWall, RightWall, BottomWall, BackWall, AxisBehind, PrintProportional, and Shadow.
• Parameters: RTTI support for Parameter.Values[ ] and ValueCount.

*Features may vary by ReportBuilder Edition and Delphi version
*RB 15 includes support for eight Delphi versions:
D7, D2007, D2009, D2010, DXE, DXE2, DXE3, DXE4