Question “How do I implement event-handlers for report templates?” Solution The best solution is to code the calculations and event-handlers in RAP, the run-time Pascal coding evironment included with ReportBuilder Enterprise. RAP enables the event-handler code to be saved in the .rtm templates as part of the report definition. If you use Delphi event-handlers as  Full Article…

Question “How do I displaying report Open/Save dialogs?” Solution The Report.Template object has several events that can be used for customizing what happens when a report is loaded or saved: OnLoadStart OnLoadEnd OnNew OnSaveStart OnSaveEnd The OnLoadEnd and OnNew events are often used to perform actions related to report and data initialization. The OnSaveEnd event  Full Article…

Question “How do I customize the Open/Save To File dialogs?” Solution The Report.Template property has an OnCreateDialog event. The public event is defined as: property OnCreateDialog: TppDialogEvent read FOnCreateDialog write FOnCreateDialog; And the TppDialogEvent type is defined as: TppDialogEvent = procedure(Sender: TObject; aDialog: TObject) of object; You can customize the TOpenDialog and TSaveDialog properties by  Full Article…